on both sides

every day

nah it's not always that cynical, he is a new level

it is that cynical

it's not

To absolutely refuse to vote on any judges that a president appoints destroys the fabric of democracy

You had people like McCain, etc, who definitely were not on this level

that was pretty ballsy, wasn't it

ballsy is not to be admired if it is going to hurt the legitimacy of the government

McCain was just Uniparty scum

That whole thought process is an ego trip that has no civic virtue

I wasn' ta McCain fan, but I don't doubt his patriotism, to a point

but if he believes leftist judges are activist judges that won't uphold the Constitution, then he has a duty to do what he's doing

It' slike goign from field grade to flag rank, you are supposed to leave your 'community' behind

They dont' have to be leftist, they can be REPUBLICANS. they are not all hacks

@The Meme Lord we aren’t a democracy we are a republic

when you say hacks, what do you mean exactly?

There is a quasi-gov board that reviews appointments, it is very good. it rarely issues raw 'thumbs down', it has had many recently that got appointed

I forget the name of it, but you will see it quoted often regarding Mitch and the judges

I was also told the FISA court was good and a standard bearer of truth and justice though

@CoNtRoLeRbOt We are a representative Democracy and also technically a republic because the definition of a republic is a government where officals are elected (so democracy) but we can argue about definitions but McConnel is destroying America’s institutions

but even aside from the qualitative issues, you have the quantitative issues or just refusing to consider so many appointments during the previous administration

The issue is especially scary with a judiciary because it's one of the main things that makes America different: an independent judiciary

ABA has 10 NQs on their view of ones appointed this congress

I dunno, there are too many activists on the left that want to weaken the Constitution any chance they get. I think the days of "fair and balanced" are over.

It's only over because you feel that way and think 'revenge' is necessary on the left

Let's say your first clause is accurate, why keep it going?

it's not revenge

The solution to 'activist judges' is not more 'activist judges'

Why join the fight to make things worse?

well, you might be right that the judges he's appointing are truly activist, I can't say

if you're right about that, then you're right about the next thing you said

ABA has 18 NQs on their last congress review

```The Week news magazine has named Senate Majority Leader Moscow Mitch McConnell the decade’s most consequential politician, over Barack Obama, the nation’s first African American president, and Donald Trump, the nation’s most problematic president ever. “McConnell was smashing norms and precedents in the Senate even before Trump arrived in Washington, D.C. In the case of Trump’s major accomplishments—cutting taxes and transforming the American judiciary—McConnell probably deserves the lion’s share of the credit,” writes Joel Mathis.```

Loading up our judicial branch with a bunch of often-unqualified party-first bootlickers is probably one of the worst things about Trump's presidency

that's for the guy who thinks McConnell isn't relevent

It's turtles all the way down, man...

McConnell is too important, I don't understand how a...person...like that, gets into such a powerful position

In many ways I think he's got more power than the president - especially if you consider how long his "term" is

Look at their previous gov and what he did on the way out, that's how lol

I'm too young to follow politics much further back than Clinton (at least in that detail)