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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    2. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 20 Sep 2020
      Replying to @ryanchittum @baseballcrank

      This is specious. It’s a catalogue without historical context and logic. Just as Ike needed the legitimacy of re-election to earn the Brennan confirmation, so too does Trump *and even more so* because his party might lose the Senate too! But fine do it. 1/2

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Sep 2020
      Replying to @yeselson @ryanchittum

      The Senate didn't confirm Brennan before the election because 1) it was controlled by the opposing party & 2) it was in recess.

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    4. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 20 Sep 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank @ryanchittum

      And they were right not to! There is now an election in six weeks. Six weeks is not six months. Nor is there an effort here as in the case of Hoover. If you wish to appoint a partisan justice (as both parties now do), and you don’t give a shit about an election that could change

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    5. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 20 Sep 2020
      Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank @ryanchittum

      control of *both branches*, you’re just saying power is its own justification. Forget thre rest. And that’s fine. Because you’re a minority of the country, and if power is it’s own justification, you will ultimately lose because, as Gamiktin and Kuncoln understood, majorities

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    6. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 20 Sep 2020
      Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank @ryanchittum

      must rule in a democracy, as a general rule, not as an arbitrary and intermittent one.

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    7. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 20 Sep 2020
      Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank @ryanchittum

      That should have read Hamilton and Lincoln. Yes, Lincoln—a radical majoritarian who would fight your procedural minoritarian politics (will leave policy to the side, given huge difference now from then.)

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Sep 2020
      Replying to @yeselson @ryanchittum

      Lincoln got a majority of the Electoral College with 40% of the popular vote after running in a national election where he wasn't even on the ballot in a third of the states. He also appointed a Chief Justice in a lame duck session in 1864.

      11:08 AM - 20 Sep 2020
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        2. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 20 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @ryanchittum

          It’s morally unserious to argue in behalf of reactionary anti-democratic minortarianism—which Lincoln himself fought to destroy (!)—based upon the contingencies of his own ejection. He got the most votes, even if not a majority. Moreover: the EC, even in its own terms, failed to

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        3. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 20 Sep 2020
          Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank @ryanchittum

          maintain national unity (and a good thing it didn’t, as war was necessary to destroy the slaveocracy).

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