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kpete

(71,996 posts) Tue Sep 23, 2014, 10:16 AM Sep 2014

Right wing whining about the polarization they've created

Right wing whining about the polarization they've created

by digby

Justice Roberts says:

It’s not like it’s always been that way,” Roberts said. “Justice (Antonin) Scalia, I think, was confirmed unanimously. I think Justice (Ruth Bader) Ginsburg was confirmed unanimously. Neither one of them would have a chance today. And that doesn’t make any sense. That’s bad for the judiciary.”
It would be if it weren't patently obvious that only Ginsburg would not be confirmed. Scalia would make it through. How do we know this? Because Samuel Alito did. And he's even more of a partisan wingnut than Scalia (although not quite as dyspeptic --- but give him time.)

I think it's very nice that Roberts is concerned about polarization and partisanship. But he's been around since the 1980s when the Reagan revolutionaries started their Shermanesque March through American politics, lighting fire to every norm, tradition, rule and common understanding that previously existed. He's been part of it throughout his entire career. So one must be pardoned for thinking that what he really means is that liberals need to admit they've been defeated and stop fighting because the conservatives aren't getting everything they want. That's what they usually mean when they start whining about partisanship.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/09/right-wing-whining-about-polarization.html

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Right wing whining about the polarization they've created (Original Post) kpete Sep 2014 OP

Yeah, it's too bad that Scalia was confirmed, much less 'unanimously'. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Sep 2014 #1

I just don't see how someone who is as polarizing mean as Scalia hasn't yet done Baitball Blogger Sep 2014 #2

Well, there has been exactly one SCOTUS justice who has been impeached jeff47 Sep 2014 #3

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)

1. Yeah, it's too bad that Scalia was confirmed, much less 'unanimously'.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2014, 10:47 AM

Sep 2014

Heck, it's too bad that Roberts lied enough to get confirmed.

Baitball Blogger

(46,735 posts)

2. I just don't see how someone who is as polarizing mean as Scalia hasn't yet done

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2014, 11:02 AM

Sep 2014

something to remove him from the bench.

Which brings an interesting point. What does a Supreme Justice have to do before it becomes obvious that he doesn't belong on the highest court in the nation?

jeff47

(26,549 posts)

3. Well, there has been exactly one SCOTUS justice who has been impeached

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 23, 2014, 12:29 PM

Sep 2014

And he was acquitted by the Senate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Chase

So I don't think we really know what a justice has to do to actually be removed.

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