Catholic cardinals also serve for life but they have to be below 80 to vote for a new pope. Right now there are 220 cardinals but only 123 are less than 80. they really are an old group
Reviving…
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Had the Democrats not swept the GA senate special elections, Mitch McConnell would never allow it to be filled. Now we have to see if Manchin and Sinema find a way to fuck up putting a replacement liberal on the court.
Everyone ready for that soulless reptile McConnell to say “three years before a presidential election is the wrong time to confirm a justice”?
He might, of course.
But I can’t help but wonder: what if he made a big show of courtly deference, talking up how he’s willing to reach across the aisle for the good of the country because the Supreme Court is and ought to be above politics — you know, apart from quick mention of ‘The Biden Rule’ and the opposite party and so on, for rare occasions when the electorate is about to rightly weigh in on the presidency, you understand — all to get as many people as possible saying yes, how utterly legitimate about tons of 6-3 rulings set to keep getting handed down from on high?
^^^
This.
WOO-HOO !
McConnell will claim Biden hasn’t been in office long enough and by the time he is, it will be too close to the election.
I’d be surprised if he leaned on one of the hits, rather than trying something Brand New – I’m thinking “too close to dead …” (at age 79).
There Is No Bottom with these people.
Will Manchin demand GOP buy-in on his replacement?
Let’s get someone young in there who can be a consistently liberal voice.
Nominate Obama, just to make there heads spin.
It’s already too close – Biden has only three more years. Let the next president make the nomination!
Lord. maganut thinks they’ll nominate Howard Stern.
Either Obama !
Let’s really rile up the MAGAbots: Hillary!
Joe Manchin will fuck this up somehow.
Yeah, McConnell is not the problem. Manchin is.
Not somehow. I’m sure he has plans.
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