{"id":72066,"date":"2019-09-04T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72066"},"modified":"2019-09-03T07:45:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T12:45:46","slug":"packed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72066","title":{"rendered":"Packed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Democrat political strategist David Axelrod <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/rbg-scare-david-axelrod-warns-supreme-court-vacancy-fight-could-tear-this-country-apart\">warns a vacancy on the Supreme Court would tear the nation apart<\/a>.<br>I don&#8217;t see how.\u00a0 Not if Democrats follow the Constitution.\u00a0 The President nominates some jurist, the Senate confirms her, the nation moves on.<br>The only way a problem could arise is if Democrats decide not to follow the Constitution, if they decide to stage a revolution to overthrow the Constitution through violence.\u00a0 That would tear the nation apart.<br>So what&#8217;s Axelrod saying: Democrats intend to tear the nation apart over one lousy Supreme Court seat?\u00a0 <br>If we&#8217;re looking at a threat to the nation&#8217;s very existence, maybe Trump should look to historical precedent, consider some of Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s tactics.\u00a0 Call up the National Guard to maintain order?\u00a0 Suspend habeas corpus.\u00a0 Jail dissidents without charges or trial.\u00a0 Harsh, but to save the nation, justified.\u00a0 And who could fairly complain &#8211; they brought it on themselves.<br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m all for doing all of that with those that want to abolish the Electoral College.  The SCOTUS, even  moreso. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat political strategist David Axelrod warns a vacancy on the Supreme Court would tear the nation apart.I don&#8217;t see how.\u00a0 Not if Democrats follow the Constitution.\u00a0 The President nominates some jurist, the Senate confirms her, the nation moves on.The only way a problem could arise is if Democrats decide not to follow the Constitution, if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72067,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72066\/revisions\/72067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}