{"id":16576,"date":"2020-09-26T20:07:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T00:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=16576"},"modified":"2020-09-26T20:28:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T00:28:57","slug":"fighting-the-supreme-court-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/fighting-the-supreme-court-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting the Supreme Court nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Bader Ginsberg, judge on the US Supreme Court, passed away a few days ago. Donald Trump has already nominated someone to replace her. Despite the fact that in 2016 Barack Obama&#8217;s nomination in an election year was blocked by Senate Republicans. The deeply hypocritical Republicans vowed to approve of anyone Trump picked.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very important &#8212; if another insanely conservative judge gets onto the court it will mean bad decisions for years or decades. Abortion, the Affordable Care Act &#8212; it&#8217;s all up for grabs. It&#8217;s important to win the election, but the Supreme Court is also important &#8212; they can strike down laws. What can Democrats do? Cenk Uygur of <strong>The Young Turks<\/strong> gives them 5 ideas:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MaTJ4nBZIec&amp;t=905s\">5 Ways Democrats Can Stop GOP From Filling Ruth Bader Ginsburg Seat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some brilliant options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They could request that each vote in the Senate have unanimous consent until November 30th.<\/li>\n<li>The debt ceiling and the budget both need to be passed, and need Democrat votes in the House &#8212; they could make this contingent on not filling that seat.<\/li>\n<li>They could impeach the president again &#8212; there are several completely valid reasons for doing so.<\/li>\n<li>They could threaten to enlarge the Supreme Court when Democrats are in power.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Bader Ginsberg, judge on the US Supreme Court, passed away a few days ago. Donald Trump has already nominated someone to replace her. Despite the fact that in 2016 Barack Obama&#8217;s nomination in an election year was blocked by Senate Republicans. The deeply hypocritical Republicans vowed to approve of anyone Trump picked. It&#8217;s very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-16576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","category-my-thoughts","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16576"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16583,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16576\/revisions\/16583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}