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Mitch McConnell broke the Senate, and through that, the Judiciary.
by thomascgalvin 4y ago
Mitch McConnell broke the Senate, and through that, the Judiciary.
- Bhilai 4y agoYes and the recent stuff with the wife of a SCOTUS justice involved in conspiracy to overturn an election is definitely a sign of hyper partisanship.
- InTheArena 4y agoThis is the problem with partisanship. Blockade of judges started in 2001, when Democrats declared Bush illigetimate, and decided that no judges would be selected. Republicans threatened the "nuclear option" (removing fillibusters). The "Gang of 14" in 2005 wrote ideological ground rules and approved a set number of judges to keep the nuclear option from being used. Obama came to office, and the Democrats used the nuclear option - despite the gang of 14 framework, but then said that it doesn't apply to supreme court ballots. Republicans came in and decided that yes, it did apply. We've been destroying our own government with crap like this for the last 20 years. Partisanship is a hell of a drug.