Part of me believes they are proud and not in a good way.

...replaced by Sonia Sotomayor.

Sotomayor new.
Kagan new.
Breyer and Ginseng had better live.

Maybe no one thought it possible that a Winger could be POTUS?

but as long as none of the liberal justices die within the first three years of a Trump administration then we got things covered. The Republicans set the precedent of not confirming President Obama's pick during the fourth year of his second term so the Democrats will be justified in saying that any selection should wait until after the election. Quite frankly, the Democrats should only give two years for President Trump's nominees considering the likelihood that he will select someone that has no qualifications whatsoever.

that as long as the Republican majority exists in the Senate that the president can make a nomination on January 19 of 2021 and it will get fast-track approval.

That's in the 2 point print written in invisible ink. Get with the program!

as Obama is President.

that shit up? Let's say the fuhrer picks a Supreme Court Justice in his first year as president. Can democrats play the same game and block that nominee during his whole presidency?

The new normal is the GOP makes its own rules and they might not have been inclined to.

Ginsberg and Breyer were supposed to give up their seats in hopes that Obama could have gotten a judge as liberal or more liberal than they confirmed before he left office and the fact that they continued working and fighting for us is "hubris and callousness toward others?"

Are you this judgmental of the liberals who didn't vote for Hillary?

Who allowed trump to become president by voting for incompetent leaders like stein and Johnson

Yes, it's hubris to risk this much knowing what's at stake. It's not like they were young in 08.

Is there some fantasy going round that supposes that for once the Cons were going to stand aside and let the Pres. have his way, again and again, thereby ‘loading’ the court.

Even if they had retired during Obama's time that still wouldn't have changed the 5-4 conservative advantage.

And there's the chance the repugs might have thought of their stalling tactic sooner.

she is a coooore-pruh-tist and......emails!

They expected next year to be Hillary picking with a Democratic majority in the Senate (with the threat of the nuclear option to block filibusters)

get single payer and all manner of other liberal legislation through start their revolution earlier and force the Senate to confirm Obama's judges?

And let's not even talk about how many progressives didn't bother to vote for Hillary because she was no better than Trump.

Enough with the "Why didn't THEY do something?"

And that's a state Clinton won.

single payer system failed this past year.

by either staying home or voting 3rd Party candidates? Probably out playing Pokemon or smoking pot while Rome burns.

How'd that work out?

Honestly, I never saw the Supreme Court situation as that critical---because I never in my darkest dreams ever contemplated there being enough stupid and/or insane and/or lazy voters in this country to put a monstrosity like Trump in the White House. Mea fucking culpa.....

It was the hubris of those who believed a Democrat president and a Democrat Senate in 2016 were inevitable.

Ginsburg and Souter are heroes and caused changes that Democratic Party leadership never even came close to accomplishing in the political arena. What's more, without a filibuster proof Senate, we would have got three young Garlands, at best.

Pray for their health. Don't even think about questioning their judgment.

Then there would be even more justices for the Cons to block and stall and more for DT to pick

what makes you think that the GOP would have acted on a SCOTUS vacancy in 2009?

So let's play the same fucking game and obstruct any of rump's future SC picks.

of Congress. McConnell could decide that a simple majority is enough tp pass all legislation.

I remember 2009. There was a small (D) majority in the Senate--57 or 58 (D) + 2 (I) for most of the year.

"The nomination was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in August 2009 by a vote of 68 to 31, making Sotomayor the first Latina Supreme Court Justice in U.S. history." http://www.biography.com/people/sonia-sotomayor-453906#first-hispanic-supreme-court-justice


At least 7 or 8 (R) voted for Sotomayor. So we know how the GOP acted on a SCOTUS vacancy in 2009. Most voted against, some voted for.

That was early, and before an additional 7 years of "gotcha" and scorched-earth politics.

Perhaps they felt that 2009 was too early to start on SCOTUS level Judicial obstruction, but as I recall there are still vacancies in the District Courts that have been there for years.

August 2010 to be precise

Maybe they thought Hillary would never lose to Donald Trump. Most of us thought that too.

It's up to the justice to decide if they ever want to retire, or die in office.