re: #20 i(m)p(each)sos

Know what worries me more at this point than losing RBG before Election Day?

Clarence Thomas resigning.

Hear me out: if Biden wins, Thomas knows he’s in for a rough time ahead. RBG will be replaced by a much younger justice who’s just as liberal. And he knows if HE dies or decides to retire in the next four (8?) years, his seat will also go to a young liberal justice.

And so on November 9, he hands Trump his resignation. Ginni’s RWNJ backers already have his wingnut welfare set up for the rest of his life.

Maybe Mitch is a total lame duck now, or maybe he’s just lost the majority. Either way, he has no scruples and no fucks left to give, so he fast tracks Trump’s immediate nomination of a replacement through committee and to a Senate vote in early December.

Does he get 51 votes at that point? Susan Collins might also be a lame duck. Will her “concern” be strong enough to push her to vote no. Will a freshly re-elected Ben Sasse stand up for principle over partisan opportunity? Lisa Murkowski is two years away from reelection. How will that affect her decision? Would a lame-duck Lamar Alexander stand up and vote no to give himself a place in history?

It could get incredibly ugly. I’m afraid of ALL of the ratfucking that can happen in the 10 weeks between election and inauguration, but especially of this scenario.

Or the incoming majority leader cuts a backroom deal with four “continuing” repug senators that will make their time in the minority less onerous, so they vote against confirmation..