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Originally Posted by kane
Yep, it's insane.
Here is how much power the leader of the Senate has. In early 2016 a seat came open on the Supreme Court. Obama made his nomination to fill that seat and the leader of the Senate, McConnell, just flat out told the President that they would simply not be even considering his nominee until after the election. He then bragged about how telling Obama he wasn't going to get to fill that seat was one of the highlights of his life.
One guy decided the President doesn't get to fill a vacant Supreme Court seat and there was nothing that anyone could do about it.
It's pure insanity.
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yeah, said it many times before: McConnell is a special kind of evil.
which makes it even worse that a man like that can become that powerful
This sums it up:
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...d-trump-judges
but as long as enough people vote for that party and as long as you keep the electoral college to keep any third party from ever becoming relevant, I guess you are stuck with that shit.