Jim Antle

Jim Antle @jimantle

@pjdoland It obviously heightens that risk, but court-packing was always a possibility as long as large enough D majorities coexisted with provocative enough conservative SCOTUS rulings. Ds already saw Gorsuch seat as stolen. Have trouble seeing them leaving seat vacant in this situation. — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

New: Trump campaigns nonstop in hopes of a 2016 repeat while Biden bets on his polling/early voting lead. https://t.co/epTB8hik7X — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

Oh. — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@pjdoland Do you promise not to make whatever sound this is when things escalate from there? — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

RT @amconmag: Check out our presidential election symposium, featuring @roddreher, @j_arthur_bloom, @jimantle, @gracyolmstead, @ScottMcConn… — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@TheReal_MKP No cries, only lulz. — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@TheReal_MKP She's Googling how to look like you! — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@yeselson @willwilkinson You can look it up while I am asleep, but it had to do with the caseload. But it all has to do with philosophy/ideology. I am fine with making that a nonissue if a.) Court's role is more modest b.) Both Ramsey Clark and Robert Bork get confirmed or c.) Some combination thereof. — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@yeselson @willwilkinson Three did not get through, one did. Am I wrong about that? As for your latter point, public arguments were made about them at that time. Remember them? — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@yeselson @willwilkinson I didn't get them wrong, read it again. Maybe do something better with your time than pretend you are some kind of tough guy? — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

Lego my Ego. — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@yeselson @willwilkinson You take it up with your nominee for president why he supported Clarence Thomas then. Let him deal with your motivated reasoning. — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@yeselson @willwilkinson Lol, I forget nothing. Have another drink. — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@yeselson @willwilkinson I didn't miss any of it. Hill was viewed as the most credible accuser at the time. Did not move many votes besides Bob Packwood's. Other accusers viewed as less so. People now second guess. — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@yeselson @willwilkinson I already did answer. You believe arguments are won by the frequency with which one tweets, and most of us simply have other things to do than tweet with you. Peace! — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@yeselson @willwilkinson Um, they did try to take Thomas down. That was the whole goddamn point. — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@yeselson @willwilkinson Because Hill was viewed as the most credible and it didn't work. We weren't in total scumbag territory yet in 1991. — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@yeselson @willwilkinson Dems did not like the increase in judicial filibusters against their nominees. The three DCC nominees (one was confirmed) were a convenient rallying point. I opposed eliminating judicial filibusters under Bush. Rules changed, life then happened how it did. — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@yeselson @willwilkinson I put it to the side for a reason, as he did. Biden and company (wrongly) thought Thomas was going to be the deciding vote against Roe. If they could have defeated him, they would. — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@ThomasEWoods But she cares, Tom. She cares. — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@yeselson @willwilkinson Biden did not do that because he was looking out for Thomas. — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@yeselson @willwilkinson The Fortas filibuster was totally justified and not even particularly a power play. I have no problem with holding hearings for Garland, but not sure he was really treated worse without them than Bork was with them. — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@willwilkinson @yeselson I have always said parties should do what they have the power to do in this area unless the opposing party operates under the same rules. If you want the Supreme Court to be a super-legisature, then everyone should operate under those rules. — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@yeselson @willwilkinson I remember Republicans overwhelmingly voting for Ginsburg and Breyer afterward. — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@yeselson Yes, I remember. But it was a pretext. — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@willwilkinson @yeselson That isn't exactly the logic, so the first half of the sentence is certainly true. — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@yeselson Dems removed a tool they used once it was used against them, admittedly in greater numbers. — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

.@HannahCox7, y'all! https://t.co/jXRpWnBIzK — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

Thread. — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@TRHLofficial It just takes the cake, Josie. — PolitiTweet.org