Defying Democrat threats of repercussion over confirming 48-year-old Amy Coney Barrett, 74-year-old Donald Trump rolled dicte hoping her confirmation would no hurt his chances of reelection. Senate Democrats led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) talks of hell, fire and brimstone for confirming the conservative jurist, in the mold of the late Supreme Court Associate Justice Atonin Scalia. Democrats tried to but failed to get Barrett to opine on her personal views on a variety of issues, trying to extrapolate her positions based on past opinions and legal scholarship. In the end, Democrats didn’t have the votes to stop Barrett’s confirmation, no matter all the screaming of how Barrett would rule on Roe v. Wade [abortion], Obergefell vs. Hodges [same-sex marriage] and the Affordable Care Act [Obamacare].
Schumer took his final cheap shot at his Senate Republican colleagues for voting to confirm Barrett, threatening repercussions once Democrats take control of the sSnate. Instead of showing some statesmanship, Schumer showed why he’d make poor Senate Majority Leader if the Senate Changes hands. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) waxed philosophical about Republicans effort to confirm Barrett, not, as Schumer says, to bully Democrats, but reminding the venerable body that elections have consequences putting a Republican Senate and President in office. McConnell tried to tell Schumer to stop taking things personally, ranting about the sour grapes of not getting his way, when it was Republican’s simple majority to confirm Barrett due to rule changes made when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was in power.
Schumer used his time to shame Republicans pushing Barrett’s confirmation through the Senate, accusing the jurist of reversing Democrat pet issues like Roe v. Wade, LGBQT issues and Obamacare. Barrett, who came with the highest rating from the American Bar Assn., citied the Ginsburg Rule, not commenting how she would rule in any future case. But instead of giving Barrett the benefit of the doubt that she’d reason the cases thoroughly before ruling strictly on the law, not on what Schumer thinks she would do as a so-called conservative jurist. Barrett tried to tell skeptical Democrats that she would rule fairly on all issues, using the Constitution and precedent as her guide, not her personal views or those other conservatives who’d like to see her rule in a particular way. Barrett made it clear she’d rule with great fairness.
Schumer’s diatribe about Barrett saying she’d upend Obamacare, hurt LGBQT rights and destroy workplace protections is pure speculation, giving Barrett no credit for ruling fairly on important issues facing the High Court. Sch;umer said Coney refused to answer questions, hinting that she vote against Roe v. Wade and every important precedent valued by Democrats. McConnell reminded the Senate before her final vote that she’s comes to the court with the highest recommendation from the American Barr Assn. and every other legal group making recommendations to the U.S. Senate. Democrats’ objection to Barrett is purely political, hoping that the Nov. 3 election puts 77-year-old former Vice President Joe Biden and his 56-year-old running mate Sen. Kamala Harris in the White House Nov. 3 together with Democrat Senate.
McConnell tried to point out that if the shoe were on the other foot, Democrats would have done the exact same thing confirming their nominee. “Voting to confirm this nominee should make every single senator proud,” McConnell said, antagonizing his Democrat colleagues. Schumer delivered a speech designed not to subvert Barret ut to undermine Trump heading into the Nov. 3 election. He hoped to scare enough voters into thinking they’ll lose abortion rights, health insurance and rights to LGBTQ marriage, all of which they claim are on the ballot. Not one Senator knows how Barrett will rule on the issues before her on the Supreme Court. It’s clear that Schumer used his time for the purpose of helping sell the Biden and Harris ticket, not make any logical arguments about confirming Barrett.
As the 2020 election ticks down, voters are more concerned about the economy, something polls show favors Trump. Democrats have putt all their eggs into the Covid-19 basket, hoping voters punish Trump on Election Day. But unlike other countries, no where has a leader been blamed, except the U.S., for Covid-19 deaths. Biden and Harris repeatedly bring up the U.S. death toll blaming it on Trump;. For anyone but the most partisan voters, no one can blame Trump for a global pandemic starting in China. No country has succeeded in stopping the spread of the highly contagious novel coronavirus, including the strictness efforts in the European Union. Biden and Harris ask voters to believe it’s all Trump’s fault. Just like confirming Barrett, voters are starting to see through the preposterous Democrat strategy.
