(09-21-2020, 04:12 AM)Jag88 Wrote: Bottom line with this supreme court justice show down is that who ever wins will set the rules and if that happens, things are about to change. Nobody is respecting history and previouly respected on norms. It's all about power now for sure. Dems will retaliate when and if they get the senate and then  eventually Republicans will fire back. The extremes win and the moderates suffer

I would approach it from a slightly different perspective.  I actually think that moderation is going to be the overriding factor and which is why i would lean towards a Biden Victory.  Before her passing, the Court had a slight conservative majority, but that majority still gave them things like Gay Marriage, upholding obamacare etc.  Justice Roberts has the view that being a non partisan judiciary means ruling roughly equally between the two sides to maintain balance instead of strict constructionism.  

When Scalia died, there was a threat to that 4.5/4.5 split, it would have meant a radical shift to the left replacing one of the conservative anchors.  In the Case of RBG, Replacing her with another liberal would keep the balance, replacing her with Amy Coney Barrett would either a.) set off 50 state nuclear wars about abortion or possibly b.) Set off a civil war if the court holds that an unborn child is a person from the time it is detected to the world (effectively conception but we don't know when that happens.)  You're talking about a 6-3 conservative majority that even Roberts wouldn't be able to hold back from actually achieving sociocultural change.  

And that says nothing of the fact that Stephen Breyer would be 86 @ the end of a Trump second Term.

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