Before her
death, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the light of the Supreme Court, and had led the
Court in seeing each citizen of our country as entitled to equal justice and
representation, under law. This concept
was once the foundation of our democracy.
Last night, after hearing that, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, had died, I had a
terrible nightmare, caused by her death.
In the
nightmare President Trump had thought through a Supreme Court appointment, and
then said, “My fondest desire is to
appoint the next Supreme Court justice … during my second term in office.” In my nightmare, this one sentence led to his
reelection in 2020. What was I thinking?
1. 1. In her death, Ginsburg inflated the
Democrat’s balloon. Democrats would like
RBG replaced by a liberal justice. A
late first term appointment of a Supreme Court Justice by Trump will stir up a
hornet’s nest of Democrats to vote and demoralize fair minded Republicans
perhaps not to.
2. 2. With Trump’s above statement, he
would let some of the air out of that balloon.
3. 3. The Never Trump Republicans and
conservative independents would be given an excuse to reevaluate Trump in 2020,
giving him a slight chance for a majority win.
4. 4. Lindsay Graham and other hypocritical
Republican senators would not be forced to eat their words of 2016, right
before the 2020 election and might not lose their coming elections and the
Republican senate majority.
5. 5. Conservative voters would be given a
piece of ground, however small, to stand on.
The
nightmare switched to a dream after Trump was elected. On his first day of his second term in
office, he nominated Merrick Garland to
the vacancy in the Supreme Court. His
next act was to fire Bill Barr and appoint Sally Yates to the office of
Attorney General. Dr. Fauci was placed
in charge (without interference) of fighting the Corona Pandemic in America. Trump put on a mask. The dream, of course, is impossible and the
nightmare described would require our president to be a thinking human
being. No such luck in either case. Not to worry.
The
nightmare scenario would give Trump a much better chance at a second term. This is his primary goal and he really
doesn’t like to lose. It is McConnell
who truly wants the Supreme Court under control of The Republican Party. It would be OK with Trump too, but thus far
his appointments to the Court haven’t marched lock step to his wishes. Even conservative judges can have a moral
rudder. It is rare, but it is there.
Cheers, Old
Buz the Dreamer 9/19/2020
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