Mike Lester for September 22, 2020

Lack Luster Lester’s idea of “sensitivity” and right thinking.

Mitch McConnell gets to pick whether to allow one to be interviewed for the job. He was not elected to do that, and he is in fact not following the constitutional requirements either. Feel better now?

I’m actually kinda shocked. This is a much less offensive cartoon than I ever expected from Lester on the subject.

Generally speaking, don’t we allow for a period of mourning before we gloat over the corpse? Justice Ginsburg deserves better.

The Supreme Court is to act as a check on the executive and legislative branches.

Nowhere does it say it acts as an umpire between warring factions of the government.

Factionalism is the root of our problem.

Twenty-nine times there has been a vacancy in a presidential election year. Presidents have made nominations all 29 times.Trump is not a lame-duck president as was Obama in 2016, and he does not have a Senate controlled by the opposition party, as did Obama in 2016.As RBG said correctly, “There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being president in his last year.”When asked about the Democrat efforts to “pack the court” by adding justices under a future Democrat president, RBG chastised them, calling it a “bad idea” and “partisan.” She said: “Nine seems to be a good number. … I think it was a bad idea when President Franklin Roosevelt tried. … I am not at all in favor of that.”

The Rule Book says the GOP, so get ready for 40 years of far-right Court decisions.

Biden, in June, told reporters that he was “putting together a list of a group of African American women who are qualified and have the experience to be on the court.”

“I am not going to release that until we go further down the line in vetting them, as well,” Biden said at the time, without committing to a specific date to roll out the names.

Release YOUR list of Supreme Court Nominees Joe. What are you hiding?

Hey, let’s take turns changing the rules each time our teams are up to bat. Being that you’re an elephant that never forgets until now this might work out when you forget paybacks can be disappointing.

Trump has the right to nominate his person to fill the open seat on the court, as did Obama in the start of ’16. But, following the Repub precedent established in ’16 for not giving such a nominee a hearing during an election year, the Repubs of ’20 should forego their Senate hearings on said nominee till the new president is seated. But, of course, the Repubs of ’16 were lying then and will see no reason to follow their own rules in ’20/21. Surprise, surprise.

The Republicans did not fulfill their Constitutional duty to assist the President to select a Supreme Court justice four years ago. I don’t think that they have an equal claim to do so now as the Democrats do.

Looks like the right expects to lose in November… otherwise why would they be in such a hurry to stack the Supreme Court now?

Breaking: ISIS and Al Qaeda just issued a statement saying their end goal is to end separation of church and state and build a kingdom of god in the U.S.

Oh, my bad, that was Amy Coney Barrett, the judge at the top of the list to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg./

I think that the point Lester is making here, and it’s an excellent point, is that having judges on any level being selected by partisan politicians with their own legal agendas is ridiculous, and should be replaced by some meritocratic bureaucracy that exists to only pick the best, most experienced and knowledgeable judges.

Not sure I buy Lester’s argument here – Trumpers think that there are no umpires.

You don’t even have a low bar, do you Mr. Lester?

O-why, o-why, o-why are judges aligned with political parties? Judges should not follow wither party but just follow the law.