Let’s assume that Democrats take the White House and hold their strong House Majority in 2020.  Let’s further assume that we experience a miracle, and Democrats win a bare majority in the Senate. Will we have everything we need to undo the damage that Resident Trump and the Republican Reich have imposed on our nation?  I think not.  Bought Bitch Mitch and Trump have further infested SCROTUS (Republican Anti-Constitutional VD) with two new bogus Injustices: Whoresuch and Pervert Kava-Nazi.  That gives the court five extreme right-wing ideologue extremists.  Those are lifetime appointments.  Just to balance the Court, we need to add two progressive Justices.

Republicans have been successfully leveraging the Supreme Court balance of power as a major campaign issue to ignite their base since the 1980s. For Democrats, the 2020 election may mark the first in modern times that they unite around the high court as a driving force in a presidential election.

Democratic candidates are increasingly advocating “court packing,” that is, upping the number of Supreme Court justices to balance the bench — or ensure a liberal majority. The idea is unlikely to succeed for historical and practical reasons but its resonance on the campaign trail reflects Democrats’ new emphasis on the judiciary during the Trump era.

The issue emerges partly from lingering anger over the Republican-led Senate’s 2016 stall of President Barack Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland, a fire stoked this week when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said if a Supreme Court vacancy occurred in 2020 election year, he would confirm a Trump nominee.

McConnell’s comments were an audacious reversal of his 2016 election-year position blocking Garland for the vacancy caused by the sudden death that February of Justice Antonin Scalia. McConnell argued that the seat should be filled by whoever won the then-upcoming presidential election.

Also drawing Democratic attention to who sits in the nine black leather chairs at the high court has been the recent enactment in states of new abortion bans. The fate of those restrictions would eventually be decided by the Supreme Court, now featuring four liberals and, with Brett Kavanaugh replacing the retired Anthony Kennedy last year, five solid conservatives…

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The Washington Post produced this video to clarify the issue.

To actually do it, we need to repeal or modify the Judiciary Act of 1869.  That’s the legislation that defined the court as a Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices.  To do that, we need it take the Senate.  We have a tall order to accomplish.

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When Trump’s personal lawyer, Barrf, presented his interpretation of the Mueller Report, I smelled a rat.  When I read (actually had my auto-reader dictate) the redacted report, I saw that rat, plain as day.  But when Muller shared nine minutes of comments about his report, yesterday, the rat bit me on the ass.  Mullet contradicted Barrf and his Fuhrer.  He also stated clearly, who needs to take action.

In his own public comments, Attorney General William Barr has leaned heavily on the idea that Mueller did not feel the guidelines are what prevented him from charging President Donald Trump with obstruction.

But Mueller on Wednesday undercut that narrative, making clear in his comments that the guidelines had a significant influence on the investigation, tying his hands from the very start from even considering whether a crime had been committed.

Indicting Trump while he was in office was “not an option we could consider,” Mueller said, explicitly citing the official guidance from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel.

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You should not take my word for this.  Here’s the complete statement from Robert Mueller.  Watch it!

Seeing that, can there be any doubt that Trump and the Republican Reich are guilty as sin, and that Barrf is lying about it?

Rachel Maddow explains how Mueller said the onus of responsibility for Trump accountability is on Congress.

Congress, DO YOUR JOB!

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I watched Robert Mueller’s statement this morning.  He there was no evidence that Trump did not commit a crime.  He said that as a DOJ employee, DOJ policy does not allow him to charge a sitting [P]resident.  Because he could not charge, he refused to opine further.  He said the remedy is up to Congress, based on the evidence he preserved.  In the meantime The Congressional leadership is under pressure from more and more quarters to open an impeachment inquiry.

[A]nother liberal activist organization is ramping up the pressure on House Democrats to launch impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, a move that leadership has continued to warn against amid low public approval rating for forcibly removing the president from office.  

Stand Up America, a grassroots group that says it’s comprised of nearly 2.4 million progressive members, will launch a new campaign Tuesday aimed at mobilizing people across the country to demand House Democrats open an impeachment inquiry—something a growing number of key lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee already support.

The campaign will feature a push for constituents to call and visit their Democratic representatives to sway their opinion, in addition to digital advertisements funded by Stand Up America. The group points to findings by special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, which includes nearly a dozen detailed instances where Trump tried to remove Mueller from his post, for why it believes impeachment “can’t hold off any longer.”

“It’s time for every member of Congress to go on the record about whether they believe Trump’s criminal conduct is acceptable,” Stand Up America Founder and President Sean Eldridge told Newsweek in a statement.

Stand Up America joins the likes of MoveOn and Need to Impeach, other liberal organizations that advocate for impeachment. The growing number of calls for such a proceeding from activist groups could put the Democratic Party in a more politically difficult situation, with leadership concerned that such a divisive process could place Democrats in swing districts in peril come 2020…

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Here’s an extensive video on the subject.

Kamala Harris agreed yesterday.

The two front runners, Biden and Bernie, are pussy footing on the fringe of the issue.

In my opinion, the House should begin a formal impeachment inquiry.  That will put the investigation on front street and keep it in the public eye.  Thrice there is no reasonable chance to garner 67 votes in the Republican-controlled Senate, Democrats are not obligated to issue formal Articles of Impeachment.

I have only one compelling argument against impeachment.

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One of the favorite tactics that the Republican Party employs to deceive the American people is projection. They take what they are doing or plan to do and accuse innocent Democrats of doing it.  That way, when Democrats unearth Republican crimes, it appears retaliatory.  Now Republicans have a unique twist.  Republicans employ Nazi-like tactics against religious, ethnic, and LGBTQ minorities.  They are accusing Democrats of a holocaust against carbon.

Over the weekend, the head of Donald Trump’s planned climate review panel had this to say about the climate crisis: “The demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler.” It’s the sort of remark that would instantly result in dismissal in more reasonable times. Under Trump … it’s exactly where policy is going.

William Happer and his comparison of Jews to a polluting gas are just one aspect of a policy that’s focused not only on denying the climate crisis, but also on attacking science and scientific reasoning. As a physicist, Happer might be expected to have some deference toward his scientific colleagues, and some knowledge about the rigor and review that shape their work. But there are more important factors that shape Happer’s reasoning. Millions of them. As in the millions that have come from the fossil-fuel billionaires Robert and Rebekah Mercer to fund Happer and his anti-science pogrom.

According to The New York Times, the Mercers funded both Happer’s one-man “advocacy group” and a super PAC controlled by John Bolton. Then, when Trump brought Bolton into the Cabinet, it was Bolton who pulled in Happer to head up efforts to destroy the planet’s future. The Mercers have to be genuinely happy with their investments.

As a first step in destroying the nation’s faith in science and tamping down concerns about the already unfolding disasters brought on by global warming, the Trump regime has a simple answer: Don’t look. To that end, the new head of the United States Geological Survey has forbidden any analysis that looks beyond 2040. And the EPA, which produces a new climate assessment every four years, will simply drop the best, most accurate models from the next assessment in favor of only looking at the most favorable possible outcomes.

But closing their eyes and whistling a happy tune aren’t enough to make the climate crisis go away… [emphasis added]

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Unless we defeat the Republican Reich thoroughly, you can kiss your earth goodbye.

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