Drumpf is considering putting a man on SCOTUS who compared same sex relationships to bestiality...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Drumpf is considering putting a man on the Supreme Court who compared same sex relationships to pedophilia, prostitution, bestiality, adultery, necrophilia, incest and prostitution:

http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript227_full.html

[True Dough]

1. What are you saying?

That this is a sign of Trump being more progressive?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. He said he would be a better friend to glbtq people than Hillary.

[True Dough]

6. PREPOSTEROUS!!!!

What a fool! Or a tool! Take your pick!

[beaglelover]

3. Dems better fillibuster ALL of Trump's SCOTUS nominees. The court does NOT need 9

justices to function.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. What if the (evil) GOP eliminate the filibuster?

[beaglelover]

15. Don't they have to do that on the first day of the Senate's new session? I believe that is the rule

And they did not do it at the start of this session so they'd have to wait for the first day of the session after the 2018 elections to change it. I could be wrong, but I believe that is the only time they can change the fillibuster rules.

[FBaggins]

17. Nope

Reid "went nuclear" and removed the filibuster for most appointments in November of 2013.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

18. Not SCOTUS noms

nt

[FBaggins]

19. Right... but there's nothing different about them

The claim was that the filibuster rule could only be changed at the start of a session. That isn't correct. They can do away with it for SCOTUS appointments any time they can get 50 of their senators to agree to do it.

My guess is that Democrats recognize that we can't win this fight (absent something scandalous for a particular nominee) and will make noises to satisfy the base, but will eventually get a handful of Democrats (likely the ones up for election in red states next year) to bring the number to 60 so that undoing the filibuster isn't necessary.

The old-style filibuster is still available (stand up and speak)... so we may get someone willing to do that to gain attention.

[beaglelover]

20. Thanks!

[Angry Dragon]

5. Trump is saying that if you get rid of regulations on corps you have to balance that

out with putting more regulations on people ............ in his warped little mind that is fair

[world wide wally]

7. Fillifuckingbuster!

[mentalsolstice]

8. Alabama's very own Bill Pryor

When he was AG here, he played a big role in getting sex toys banned in the state. He argued there was no such thing as privacy in sexual matters. And of course, the purity and goodness of Alabama women needed to be protected. He would be like Scalia on steroids.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. They don't have adult stores in Alabama?

[mentalsolstice]

14. Just for sexy lingerie and oils and whatnot.

And ordering from the internet is prohibited. He's truly scary, he has big issues with all things to do with sex.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. I always thought if you could just design a vibrator that also functioned as an assault rifle

hell, these jackwits would be defending your constitutional right to wave em around in starbucks.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. I wonder if he wants to ban all cylindrical objects.

[Warren DeMontague]

12. the shape of sin

verily, goodman brown. verily.

[Political_Junkie]

13. Wish I could rec this post!

[JI7]

16. this is why Pence would not be worse