life as you thought was bad under Obama is about to be completely upended. Wait until the expand the Gitmo Prison to off mainland criminals. Thank you voters, the ones that thought their protest vote against Hillary over Sanders was ok.

occurs, it will take decades to undo the damage that will be done in the next four years.

that was his seat to fill. our seat to fill.
if there was a shred of fairness to be found in the whole damn thug party, they would give it to him. they will get their chance.
assholes.

Obama has NO way of pushing that through before the orange anus is installed.

i know there was a loophole discussed around here a while back, but it didnt seem like a very sturdy hole to me.

as useless as wishing for fairness from thugs. i know. i know.

I am starting to accept that I live in a banana republic, until further notice.

without a doubt. gonna be a long 4 years.

Dems CANNOT and WILL NOT win without taking back the rust belt states.

and election decided on 100k voters is an election. Where was the rust belt in 2000 and 2004 that gave us Bush????

It's far easier to reach people who actually vote, especially when they used to vote for Democrats. These voters were LOST because the Democratic Party has the bad habit of preferring to listen to themselves over listening to the voters.

But there is also truth to that while not all of them were bigots, many were, and those that were not were willing to empower the bigots. It is one thing to want attention paid to them, to regrow jobs, it is another when some want the days when they were the ones that gt the first and best bite of everything, others be damned.

He will do what he can to bribe those voters using everyone else's money

Senate races in those critical swing states

Uh, no

The fact that significant number of self-identifed progressives refused to vote not just for hillary but forgot about the Senate just might have had an effect, and a good number of those swing state Democrats were not only progressive, but campaigned on the issues Bernie spoke of. only confirms not only that your assessment is wrong, but those self-identified Democrats who wanted to teach a lesson to everyone by not voting, just screwed everyone for at least a generation

sheesh. if he gets re-elected it WILL be time for me to move back to the old sod, where i have more rights than i do here now.
farms going for peanuts over there, too.

could have just been their usual hubris, but they dont tend to over play their hands. they always have an ace in their back pockets.

Don't block his shit to the best of their abilities
We don't deserve to be in Congress at all.

thanks to Harry Reid's short-sighted move to invoke the so-called "nuclear option" and eliminate the filibuster for presidential nominees. I love him but man, what a dumb move that was.

People were crying and screaming about Democrats being weak for not getting rid of the filibuster. Hell, Even Bernie and Elizabeth Warren voted to get rid of it on non-Scotus nominees. The only ones that didn't were the Republicans, Pryor, Levin, and Manchin.

We have been too quick to roll over rather than taking the oh-so-horrible path of partisan maneuvering.

that more and more of them are going to think that there's no point in supporting or voting for them. I seriously worry about losing the support of the electorate that's normally aligned with Dem values.

This scares me more than his nuke talk. This won't be America anymore after he gets through with it.

Presidency was bad, but also losing the Senate is a complete disaster that will take a decades to recover from the damage that will be done

Except for one sliver of constitutional law applicable in criminal cases, Justice Scalia was as far to the right as you can get. Regardless of who he appoints to fill the Scalia vacancy, the balance in the Supreme Court will not change.

Of those 102 remaining vacancies, only 13 are on the Circuit Courts of Appeals (where federal law is primarily made/interpreted) and none of those vacancies will change the balance of the en banc court in any circuit. The fact of the matter is that, while many are bemoaning the fact that Harry Reid eliminated the filibuster for non-S.Ct. judicial nominees, Obama was able to leave a lasting legacy in the courts of appeals.

The remaining vacancies are in the district courts where any legal decision a Trump judge would make would be subject to de novo review in the courts of appeals and every factual decision a Trump judge would make would affect only the particular case before them. Now that sucks for the litigants in that case, but it doesn't "reshape" anything.

The tragedy of Trump is not that we face a rollback of Obama-era S.Ct. decisions, but that we lost a potentially once in a lifetime opportunity to reverse some really horrendous decisions. Citizens United was 5-4, with Scalia in the majority (in fact, even though Buckley v. Valeo - which gives a millionaire a million times more political free speech than a person with a dollar in his pocket - was not 5-4, many of the fractured concurring opinions which were cobbled together to get a majority decision were actually close to saying that money does not equal speech). Shelby County, the VRA decision, was 5-4 with Scalia in the majority. Heller, the 2nd Amendment case, was a 5-4 decision with Scalia in the majority. Hobby Lobby was a 5-4 decision with Scalia in the majority. We could have changed this country for a generation and we failed.

As sad as that is, however, it doesn't mean that Trump can reshape the federal courts.