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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere are 321 reasons why it’s very important to vote for a Democrat in 2016
"Consider some numbers.
When Americans go to the polls on Nov. 8, 2016, pixie-ish destroyer of sloppy conservative legal reasoning, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, will be 83-years-old.
Belligerent scofflaw Antonin Scalia will be 80, as will the only Supreme Court justice whose vote matters: Anthony Kennedy, aka Tony the Swing Vote.
The next oldest is Stephen Breyer, who will clock in at relatively youthful 78-years-old.
From there you drop down a decade to Clarence Thomas who will be 68 although it is possible that Thomas has already departed this earthly realm since he has yet to speak from the bench and his clerks may be running some kind of Weekend at Bernies scam because they need the full term to pad out their resumes.
83 + 80 + 80 + 78 = (carry the 1) 321 years and reasons why the next election might change the course of the next thirty years in America or longer depending upon whether my hunch about Thomas is correct."
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/here-are-321-reasons-why-its-very-important-to-vote-for-a-democrat-in-2016/
tkmorris
(11,138 posts)I agree. I don't think just anyone who slaps a 'D' after their name will do though. We need someone who walks the walk.
still_one
(92,528 posts)republican appointments verses past Democratic appointments, I think it is pretty clear that every single potential or declared Democratic candidate will appoint good USSC justices
Not so with the potential republican candidates. When bush was running for president he was very straight forward with the kind of SC justices he would appoint, and that is exactly what he did
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Is going to pass a decent Justice with 60 votes ?
I think we need a President that can persuade the Senate that a liberal justice is good for America. Not an easy task but Hillary might be able to do it.
still_one
(92,528 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)still_one
(92,528 posts)see the primary candidates are