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"Reserved For Merrick Garland" (Original Post)
kpete
Feb 2017
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bucolic_frolic
(43,258 posts)1. He is a likelable guy and a compelling candidate
for anyone who read his bio. Although criticized by liberals as too
corporate, he had a solid regard for how laws impact common people.
And he was older. The wisdom gained by age 60 or 64 is thousands of
times what is available at 50. I would even argue, at least in my case,.
I didn't have a lot in the wisdom tank by age 50. Zealotry is the demon
of young jurists.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)2. Whatever. The SCOTUS pick, after Scalia died a fucking YEAR ago, was OBAMA'S.
Nobody else should be confirmed.
Initech
(100,100 posts)4. The conservatives made a mockery of our constitution with that stunt.
They don't deserve it.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)5. They got rewarded for the unconstitutional
Action by deplorables, BoB people and a lot of Greens.