Knockout: Why Obama Wants a Supreme Court Fight and How Republicans Blew It Before It Starts
Spandan Chakrabarti | February 14, 2016
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Harry Reid, I am certain, has other tricks up his sleeve to frustrate the Republican leadership by essentially ending the Senate's business until the President's nominee gets a vote. He could use executive sessions (the motion is non-debatable) to halt business, block unanimous consent requests for short breaks or recesses, and pull every parliamentary maneuver to make Republicans go on record. Even worse for the GOP, by constantly asking for procedural votes on the nomination, he can force Republicans to show up and be on the Senate floor.
And no Democratic Senator will pay a political price for standing with Reid and President Obama on this. It will be like the GOP's government shutdown, part deux. Democrats will coalesce around the Constitutional principle of giving the president's nominee a vote, and Republicans will be seen as the party of destruction, endangering the very operation of government itself. And this time, there won't be a malfunctioning website to go after when it's done.
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We are also just one justice away from the Supreme Court no longer holding the notion that money is speech. We are one justice away from restoring the Voting Rights Act's protections for minorities.
All of these issues - women's right to reproductive care without interference from their states or their bosses, gun safety, money in politics, voting rights - play in favor of a blue electorate, if only they come out to vote. A high profile fight over the President's nominee to replace Scalia - especially one in which Republicans are seen as political obstructionists rather than conscientious objectors - will insure those voters come out. And they will come out to punish the Republicans even if - perhaps more accurately, when - the President eventually wins the fight to seat his nominee. In other words, Republicans may end up with the worst of both worlds: President Obama's appointee replacing Scalia, and a 16-year Democratic rein in the White House.
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GoBama!
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For seven years.
Thanks shraby, he is that good! 
I hope that Obama goes for it. 
up some of the most disgusting white-wing rulings in our lifetime--without having to wait for another president. It's a late Christmas present, but I'll take it.
It's also wonderful to see the President tell McTurtle and his ilk F-you.
can use his powers of persuasion on his opposition colleagues to give us a preview of his awesome influence. He seems to imply that unlike Obama & Hillary, he has some special sauce that would allow him to win them over. 
I thought it was a brilliant take from the People's View(Spandan).. on what's happening right now, and how the rwingers are making it too easy for President Obama to paint them into a corner.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1107&pid=47590
Thank you!
Missed yours last night, Cha.
Agreed, it was a brilliant take and come hell or high water he will get this done.
President Obama and Harry Reid can end the conservative bent of the Supreme Court for at least a generation!
This is a fight worth having!
It's like my Republican Senator Shelby is advertising - Obama wants to remove the Second Amendment and take away all the guns God has so graciously given us ( 
) - and we can't do that without at least 5 liberal Godless justices! 
Reading this!
If the GOP had played it straight and not like thugs, Obama would have chosen a moderate such as Sri Srinivasan. But since the GOP has announced they intend to reject everyone, the author of the article speculated that Obama might throw caution to the winds and do a recess appointment of a genuine liberal.
Hey, that works for me. 
Whatever happens, this particular segment of the campaign season is turning into premium spectator sport. 