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Who would your preferred Dem be for the new nominee? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm OK with Harris. Not thrilled, but OK.

It would have been nice to get Warren. Sanders has the same age issue (though is still mentally there in interviews) as Biden, and that window has closed. So many people at the federal level have clung to their positions for so long, it feels like as a country, we wouldn't be familiar with people in the primes of their life actually running the show.

At 45, I shouldn't still be waiting for my generation to have any level of power. AARP is coming for me in 10 years.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Elaine Kagen. She can step down from SCOTUS and let Biden nominate her replacement. She has good national name recognition and lots of public writing on every important topic. She would trounce Trump in a debate. It's basically impossible to challenge her qualifications. She is a little older at 64 but much younger than Trump or Biden. She's actually a little short of the normal retirement age. I actually prefer Sotomayor and thought of this for her but she's a little older than Kagen.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't want a liberal justice removed from the court for any reason.

Republican shitbags will find some traitor-ass senator to help them block the replacement, the vacancy will ramp up right-wing voters like crazy, and we'll end up with another Trump term AND a 7/2 conservative SCOTUS.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Agreed. There's bad ideas, and then there's this.

Have we seriously not learned "never get a liberal justice off the court in an election year"? Only slightly less famous is "don't get involved in a land war in Asia."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It'd be a replay of RBG all over again "we can't confirm a new justice now, the people need to vote first".