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Re:Zuckerberg Faces Anger Over Facebook Executive’s Kavanaug... by scrollaway on Friday October 05, 2018 @01:51PM (#18150167)
Of course there was going to be pushback. Politics is politics and the partisan divide is great right now. But this isn't just pushback. As I said, Gorsuch didn't have anywhere near the level of pushback Kavanaugh has. And Gorsuch was taking a seat which people felt was stolen by stalling tactics.

What's craziest to me is that, with some rare exceptions, Supreme Court appointments used to be pretty nonpartisan (https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/nominations/Nomi...). And now we're talking about a confirmation that will fail/pass by most likely one vote. And this... doesn't raise any eyebrows. It's fine if he gets confirmed, it's fine that the GOP got rid of the 60-vote rule for Gorsuch, everything is fine and dandy. He'll "follow the constitution".

> And I'm not sure what "cult" you think I'm representing.

I'm saying the way you talk, in other posts, is very cultish. Make of that what you will. Someone told that to me once and it made me seriously rethink the way I talked to people, and what kind of media I was ingesting.

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Re:Zuckerberg Faces Anger Over Facebook Executive’s Kavanaug... by jki275 on Friday October 05, 2018 @02:45PM (#18150676)
No, Gorsuch was a conservative jurist replacing the most conservative jurist who has been on the court in recent history with the possible exception of Clarence Thomas.

Supreme Court Nominations used to be non partisan, and one might note that there is one party that made them not so.

The 60 vote rule was removed by Reid when the democrats had control -- for all other federal appointments. The republicans merely adopted the rule he put in place for SCOTUS appointments as well.

I don't have much of a post history here, so not sure where you're coming from.

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Re:Zuckerberg Faces Anger Over Facebook Executive’s Kavanaug... by pandaman on Friday October 05, 2018 @02:32PM (#18150537)
There had been zero chance to deny Gorsuch since he has been appointed right after elections. The current situation is different: elections are coming and if the confirmation had been delayed past elections and if Democrats took Senate (and they believe they have a chance) then they could have denied Kavanough's confirmation.

If these two had been swapped, the same thing would have been happening to Gorsuch now and you would have been wondering how come Kavanough had been confirmed before and why there is no better candidate now?

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