"Today, I will announce the person whom I believe is eminently qualified to sit on the Supreme Court." —@POTUS: go.wh.gov/hnGMk8
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SCOTUS Nomination (@SCOTUSnom) March 16, 2025****
Today (all times Eastern)
11:0: The President makes a statement in the Rose Garden on his Supreme Court nominee
3:15: The President holds a roundtable with Cuban-American leaders, Roosevelt Room
5:10: Delivers remarks at a reception for Women’s History Month, East Room
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11.0 CST: The First Lady speaks at SXSW
Live here
Good Morning Chips, Good Morning TOD. I’ll be glued to my computer @ 11:00AM!!
Allison!
This looks like Mr. 57 and the dogs when I left the house this morning. He was watching TV in bed, Pearl was on the pillow above his head, Kasper was on his lap, and Nickelby was at his feet.
THAT’S ME…GOD BLESS THE ANIMALS..THEY ARE MUCH BETTER THAN HUMANS!
Congrats, Allison! Woke up at 3 a.m. with the startling thought that POTUS might nominate Sandra Day O’Connor to put the ultimate squeeze on the GOP. Must have been the celebratory wine talking.
WHOMEVER THE PRESIDENT CHOOSES WILL BE QUALIFIED…HE GIVES THESE CHOICES THE UTMOST IN INTEGRITY AND THOUGHT…I’LL BE WATCHING ON THE FLATSCREEN PRIOR TO LEAVING TODAY! HE IS LOVED BY MANY AND HE IS AN INTELLIGENT MAN…WE ARE BLESSED!
5/5 yet?
It looks like they’ll still be counting in Missouri in 2017. Morning Petal!
sigh. should we have to do this evvvery day?
MM.
Is it time for your wheelie bed yet, grumpy?
Waiting for my rocky, rocky bed.
😶
shocked? surprised?
don’t be.
If you notice, Missouri is notorious being unable to call major political races. If memory service me well, the 2008 MO GE results between Sen Obama and that senile old fool Sen John McCain, was not finalize until 2 days after the election and that fool won by 1 vote.
Oh, I’d forgotten that RanMan - why the heck are they so slow?
IMO, it because the major metropolitan areas like St. Louis City and Kansas City Mo, do not come out and vote in the numbers they’re capable of. Whereas the down state areas generate maximum turnout even though population is smaller than the two Metro areas.
This is really damaging when there are major State ballot issues. The like of Metro turnout allows downstate to set their reckless agenda.
What a night, huh, amk?
Indeed. I am not gonna listen to ya anymore. You scared me about OH and IL. :)
NO ONE expected what we saw yesterday in IL and OH, although I think Nate Silver was pretty close to nailing it. Conventional wisdom was that Bernie would take at least two, and likely three states. OH was the real surprise, and her margins in FL and NC were fantastic.
Sanders’ bashing of the Obama coalition & his cynical reasons for being a Dem - this damn well better hurt him. What a jerk.
And it’s a damned shame that the media is acting like “meh” when Hillary had such resounding and unexpected wins last night.
teann was dreck, dreck, dreck today am with a cursory, oh, yeah, hillary won too. I must say I am disappointed with axelrod, the pundtwit.
More great news. Thanks, POTUS!!
Once the President announces his choice, it’s going to be up to us to hit the phones. Maybe Hillary’s 5/5 sweep last night will convince Senate R’s that this may be their last chance to influence a SCOTUS nomination. If Hillary wins in November, she will likely carry enough Dem Senate candidates with her to flip the Senate. Then you would have a Hillary SCOTUS nominee approved by a Dem Senate. Act now, Senate R’s or you may have to forever hold your peace.
Did you hear her speech last night, jackie? Mr. 57 and I couldn’t believe how good it was. And one of her points to these “activists” [supporting Bernie] was that you have to be activists all the time if you really mean it, and get out there and support PBO on his nomination to SCOTUS.
No, 57, I didn’t hear-was too tired out from a cold/cough to stay up, but I’m going to look it up today. She’s absolutely right though, fair weather activism isn’t enough to get the job done as we learned all too painfully in 2010 and 2014. Good for Hillary for saying so.
I don’t want to sway you, I’m interested in your honest opinion. But Mr. 57 and I couldn’t not believe how great a speech it was. Hillary has found her voice. It was excellently written, but she delivered it as if it was extemporaneous.
The line about the SCOTUS nominee was so adept at shining a light on Sanders’ fair weather Dems without being insulting.
Agree! Now if Bill will just let Hillary be herself without butting in…
That would be great, meta. Can’t wait to find out. One thing I do know is that whomever PBO chooses, that person will be above reproach.
You can always safely bet on that, jackieg. We will all have to join him in this fight.
That’s who I’m expecting, meta, but PBO is always full of surprises!
ugghly on the outside, ugghlier on the inside. Congrats gop, you built this.
A more repellent pair of candidates it would be hard to imagine. It’s like a horror movie where every exit is blocked by a ghoul. By the way, thanks for the info on Windows 10. It’s a little (gulp) overwhelming.
Furst ones, the wurst possible evah.
Sekind one, not so bad. It takes about 15 min.
Amk, please advise. The Webroot on my HP has expired. Renew or get something else?
Thanks in advance 😊
“The Webroot on my HP has expired”
That sounds painful :???:
LOL!
It’s pretty scary Chips😄
Are you walking funny?
LOL!!!!!
windows defender, which is free, is good enough. I stopped paying for ‘antivirus’ bs eons ago.
That will be 100.
I’m being directed to the Webroot site to pay $49 and now you want $100
I’m being ripped off left & right!!!
But mine is only once in a lifetime payment !!!
p.s. of course, other tips may carry a charge.
correction: WILL carry a charge
Can I uninstall both Webroot and *you*?
😃😃
:D :D :D
I’ll be back. Off to work
I have my checkbook out: what do I need to know about installing Windows 10?
show me the munny furst.
…
…
1. It will take about 2-4 hours for installation depending on your present config.
2. No, you can’t use your ‘puter during that time.
3. Lemme see that check again before next tip.
sigh…. ok, ok, I will give one more free tip.
W10 is free. …. for now.
I back up with carbonite. Do I need to do anything else?
yu$$$
YEP….NO DOUBT ABOUT IT!
TWEEDLE DUM AND TWEEDLE DEE…WANT TO INVADE THE WHITEHOUSE FAMILY TREE…WITH THEM THEY’LL BRING A POISON COMPARABLE TO INSECTICIDE…THEN THEY’LL WONDER WHY THE COUNTRY DIED!
LOL.
GM TODville.
Reposting this from yesterday’s Early Bird thread because it’s now the day after #SuperTuesdayII primary elections AND PBO will announce SCOTUS nominee soon.
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Matthew J Dowd, chief strategist of Bush/Cheney 04, said on Sunday:
US Senators “are paid by the US Treasury… US Senate should do their job… they show up day after day. They get a paycheck and they should vote it up or down.
I think as of Wednesday morning the GOP position is going to change on this.
If Trump does well in the primaries on Tuesday night, they’re gonna figure out that maybe a nominee by Obama is better than a nominee if Donald Trump is the nominee.”
[46 second video clip]
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Wednesday morning. Congrats Allison, on being first this morning.
The greatest start of the day is when you wake-up in the morning and have all your faculties and mobility. If you don’t think so, try not waking up.
To all, I hope that you have a cheerful, fun-loving, and super-fantastic day today. <3 <3 <3
Thank God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America. ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
Go Srini.
Why? …. You have to ask?
He has Pakistani roots? /runs
You prolly should run after her; no point in simply watching her run.
where she gonna go? she’ll be back. then ….
smh in exasperation …. It’s not about where she goes; it’s that you’d get a little exercise from the chase!!!
#insultafterinsult. bern did bite ya last night didn’t he?
#friendlyencouragementfromafriendisnotaninsult
Giordano was a bit hair-on-fire all day yesterday, too, telling up we should have phone banked more. I thought something good may be afoot after I saw his projections late in the day.
And there were the (perhaps erroneous?) reports all day that massive numbers of Dems were bailing to vote for Trump or Kasich in OH.
Twitter: our friend and enemy at the same time.
If you looked at the final IL & OH nos, not true at all. Fuck the emmessem.
Bernie should stay in but stop doing damage, although that’s less of an issue now I think. MSM will ignore Hillary completely because of the “excitement” of the GOP race. But damn, I want to do some work on getting rid of the odious Mark Kirk in IL. We really have to get serious about the fascist who will be the GOP nominee. There is so much work to do.
Good morning TOD
Congrats Allison :)
So cool …
#FORWARD
#YesWECan
bbl … take care everyone …
I thought he wanted a one on one with TC?
Good Morning TOD family, Chips, Danny, lurkers and friends. Have a wonderful day everyone.
MooooOOOooooOOoooooooorning JoJo!!
Moooorning Chips….Moooorning GGAIL. :) :) :)
Good morning jojo😘
Good morning! I was glad to see that HRC had a great night with a trifecta and a double-play. I hope she doesn’t mind the pressure of having to defeat the USA’s home grown little tyrant version of Kim Jong-un.
So I’m trying to find where I read last night that primary turnout is completely unrelated to general election turnout. But it was a factual, historical piece that references elections in which the Dem primaries had lower turnout than GOP but the Dem nominee won handily in those states.
It is. I’ve been trying to get people to understand this.
tod.
Good West Coast morning Chipsticks & TOD family.
I will be sitting at my desk when PBO makes his announcement. 🤓
I love how his administration is guiding the process. Email and Twitter -awesome!
MoooooooooooOOOOOOOOoooooooooorning GGail!!
Gooooooooooooal mOOOrning my dear Chips 🍀❤️
Today is exciting already and it’s still dark in my part of the World 😄
Kinda of a dumb phrase for the Republicans to go with, no? LOLz. Let’s let them hear our voices as soon as the announcement comes.
Thanks meta. I’ll call him when I get to work!
Thank you, GGail.
meta, have you call yet?
bella, I’m going to wait until after PBO’s announcement. Then we need to slam everybody on the Judiciary Committee, especially these guys:
@LindseyGrahamSC 202-224-5972
@OrrinHatch 202-224-5251
@JeffFlake 202 -224-4521
The other GOPers on the Senate Judiciary Committee besides these three and chair Grassley are Sessions,Cornyn, Lee, Cruz (gag), Vitter, Perdue, and Tillis They are a lost cause, but let’s pound on them on Twitter anyway.
AGREED!
meta, ny Senators are Republicans, is Sen. Burr or Sen. Tillis on the Committee? I will wait to call too.
my Senators.
Yes, Bella - Tillis is on it. Your can write him on his Senate.gov email also since you are a constituent. Thanks!
Here you go:
@SenatorSessions 202-224-4124
@JohnCornyn 202-224-2934
@ SenMikeLee 202-224-5444
@SenTedCruz 202-224- 5922
@DavidVitter 202-224-4623
@sendavidperdue 202-224-3521
@SenThomTillis 202-224-6342
Roger that, meta …
Good one, Bobfr!
I agree, Bobfr that is a good one.
God, I haven’t watched msnbc in ages but I did last night. What a nightmare.
GM 57F.
Did you see this WTH moment, LOL?
I did not. Oh my Lord!
This is such a massive win and game-changer. MSM can barely make themselves even report it. Jackasses, all of them.
:D
It was the entire MNSBC cast of characters. Even the brilliant Rachel Maddow let her voice unmask her. There was a tangible but absent notch in it. Her tone was not celebratory but matter-of-factly.
Good Morning, Everyone :)
Morning rikyrah!
Good morning Ms Chips, morning TOD, & congrats on first, Allison! Thrilled to wake up this morning to hear that Hillary did so well yesterday!! Brilliant. Hope everyone has a beautiful day! 😀😘
Goooooooood morning to ya Andogriff, have a blissful Wednesday!!
The same to you dear Ms Chips!! Thanks again for all you and the BT’s do for us…even though I mostly lurk lately, this place is still a haven for me & many others! ❤️😘
On the local front in Illinois:
Well, I am happy on the local front for the results from last night.
Anita Alvarez had to go. I had never been fond of her, but I was done with the result of the Rekia Boyd murder. From the result of that, I just felt nothing but disgust when I saw her. So, seeing her go down made me very happy. And, those who put up that fraud More shot themselves in the foot - More didn’t take votes from Foxx - she took them from Alvarez.
And, as for Ken Dunkin…don’t let the door hit you on your way out. I absolutely despise Michael Madigan..but, even when you have the Devil in your midst, somehow, there always happens to be an even worse Devil in the form of our Governor- Bruce Rauner. We have been without a State Budget since July. The thought…the mere thought.,..that ANY Democrat would side with Rauner - FOR ANY REASON - I didn’t give two shyts what Madigan decided to do to Dunkin. So, good riddance to him, and I hope the 30 pieces he got from Rauner was worth it, considering the thousands of the ‘least of these’ in my state that have been hurt because of Dunkin’s paid -for ‘ independence’. Negro, please.
And, Tammy Duckworth won. Wasn’t feeling her, but Andrea Zopp didn’t even reach out to the Black community like she should have..so, oh well. I’ll support Duckworth to get rid of Kirk.
My feelings exactly, rikyrah. Any one of the Dem Senate candidates would have been fine, but we stand our best chance with Duckworth. Zopp didn’t reach out to anybody, or didn’t have the money to do so. I didn’t get one piece of literature from her.
rikyrah, all I can say is Thank you Lord.
**Black Lives Matter**
Black Votes Matter……i hope more young AA males don’t take it for granted anymore.
The people have spoken! Woooot!
ahem….
😆😆😆
THIS!!
If you go to the sidebar and scroll, I’ve posted a series of tweets on the #SuliForum … important news about Iraq, Kurdistan that you won’t otherwise hear or read anything from corporate American media ….
back to work …
Very Good speech…by Hillary last night
http://www.c-span.org/video/?406676-1/hillary-clinton-primary-night-speech
Mr. 57 and I were very impressed.
Same here.
I just called Hatch’s office and said, “Here’s my voice, Senator. Do your job!”
lol, and well done Tnmtngirl!
You know, that’s all you have to say. Perfect!
<3
G’morning Chips & TOD!!! Congrats Allison on #1! Happy #DoYourJobWednesday to everyone, and what a great day to be alive to witness our President nominate his THIRD SCOTUS pick of his Presidency! :)
I was just about to post that it -seems to contradict earlier reports. Guess we’ll have to wait and see…
Exactly Hopefruit, Reuters and a few other places said earlier that it would be Sri Srinivasan, so somebody’s sources are shaky. Knowing PBO’s ability to surprise, it’ll be neither :-)
amk !!!
And you’ll be wheeled out in to the Rose Garden by PBO in your bed?
now you know why I had these wheels installed. #prescient
Take a deep breath. You’ll be okay.
Here’s what I just read on Wikipedia:
“Merrick Brian Garland is the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was nominated to the United States Supreme Court by President Barack Obama on March 16, 2016.”
OMG, that’s a hoot!!!!
Garland is the most practical, safest choice. Doesn’t ring true to me but we’ll see!
After reading Sri Srinivasan’s life story, I’m having a sad :-(
Me, tooooooooozzzzz. Waaaaaah.
I think I’ll go back to bed :-)
I figured he’d surprise us! That being said, I’ll wait until I hear it from PBO.
As long as it’s not Amk.
Well, I guess it’s official:
GM HF2.
@CBSradionews aired same report 15 minutes ago, as has @AP twitter.
Wikipedia has already updated their Merrick Garland page:
“On March 16, 2025 Garland was nominated by President Barak Obama to fill Justice Antonin Scalia’s vacant seat in the Supreme Court”
Oh, I see Chips is already on top of this… ;)
63 years old?!?!?! WTF?
I’m not going to freak out about this. I trust that PBO knows exactly what he’s doing and why.
Exactly - We’ve spent the last 6-7 years seeing this same movie play over and over.
Yes we have! As Bob would put it, #TrustBarack :-)
Exactly…
IN_DEED :)
PBO is shining a bright light on the obstructionists. I wasn’t relishing a whole new nationality to be savaged by GOP. But I’d love a good, solid judge sitting there for 40 years. Of course, the emoprogs will whine, and every ethnic group will whine, notwithstanding that PBO has been excellent at appointing judges that represent the diversity of America.
I’m very surprised by Garland. He’s older, safer pick.
And POTUS punked me, too! LOLz!
https://twitter.com/igorvolsky/status/710104762704928768
Great tweet, thanks LH (not sure why URL appeared for you instead of tweet):
https://twitter.com/igorvolsky/status/710104762704928768
Rats.
My effort no better than yours. :(
You go, Trudeau.
Does the nominee have to step down from where they’re already a Judge because they’re nominated?
I doubt it, only if they get the job.
The only thing that makes me really not like Garland is his age. I really did want a young nominee.
No srini???? That does it. I am not voting for the kenyan in 2016.
You and me both - regardless of whom he picks! :D
yes, we need to teach him a lesson by holding his feet to the fire.
^5
I’m with you *this* time.
New post
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/03/16/the-president-announces-his-supreme-court-nominee/