Article by Pat Buchanan in Townhall
All the Chips Are on the Table Now
"As everyone knows, I made it clear that my first choice for the Supreme Court will make history as the first African American woman justice."
So Joe
Biden promised. Since the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, however,
Biden has refused to produce a list of Black female judges and scholars
whom he would consider for the now-vacant seat.
What is his problem?
Donald
Trump had no such reluctance. In 2016, he listed a slew of candidates
from among whom he promised to pick his justices. True to his word,
Trump elevated federal appellate court judges Neil Gorsuch and Brett
Kavanaugh.
Since the Kavanaugh confirmation, Judge Amy
Coney Barrett has been openly discussed as a potential Trump choice to
succeed liberal icon Ginsburg. Why is Biden so reluctant to reveal some
highly qualified Black female judges? His refusal suggests that the kind
of high court judges that America wants is not the liberals' issue. It
is Trump's issue.
The president will announce his
choice Saturday, after the mourning period for Ginsburg is over. Mitch
McConnell's Senate is expected to confirm the new justice in late
October.
With the court's ideological balance at
stake, the battle from now to Nov. 3 is thus for all the marbles:
control of the House, the Senate, the presidency and the U.S. Supreme
Court.
Rarely has there been an election in which the stakes were so high, the ideological gulf so great and the outcome in such doubt.
The
polls show Biden ahead, but Democrats are visibly nervous. Of greatest
concern -- the possibility that, Tuesday night, Biden, in the first
debate, with his verbal and mental lapses occurring frequently now,
could kick it all away in front of millions of voters.
On
the court issue, Democrats are exhibiting something akin to panic. They
are warning that if a conservative jurist like Barrett is confirmed,
Democrats may retaliate by "packing" the Supreme Court -- increasing the
number of justices from nine to 11 and installing two new liberals --
if they win the presidency and Senate.
If a Scalia
constitutionalist is nominated and confirmed this year, says Sen. Chuck
Schumer, "nothing is off the table next year."
Other
Democrats are threatening to pack the Senate by granting statehood to
D.C. and Puerto Rico. This would add four new Democratic Senators and
formally convert the United States into a bilingual nation.
Nancy
Pelosi has threatened a new impeachment of the president if he appoints
a new justice to fill Ginsburg's seat. Yet, this is what Article II of
the Constitution directs Trump to do.
Activists are talking about "burning down" the system,
and given what we have witnessed in Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis and
Louisville, the BLM crowd and its media camp followers should be taken
seriously.
Should Democrats win the Senate and White
House, they will face one obstacle to imposing the
Biden-Bernie-Socialist-AOC agenda on the nation. Only the filibuster,
the ability of a Senate minority, through extended debate, to delay, and
occasionally frustrate, the will of the majority, would stand in the
way of their turning their radical agenda into law, as LBJ did with his
massive majorities in 1965.
This is no idle threat.
Even Barack Obama is calling for abolition of the filibuster, stripping a
Republican Senate minority of its last weapon of resistance in the
world's greatest deliberative body.
Another danger
facing the GOP is its demographic demise if it fails to control
immigration. Currently, white folks, who produce the vast majority of
GOP votes, are 60% of the nation. The Black population is 12-13%,
Hispanics 18%, Asian Americans 7%.
The GOP demographic crisis: The white population is steadily
diminishing as a share of the electorate. Hispanics and Asians, who vote
2-1 Democratic in presidential elections, are the fastest-growing
minorities and are being fed by the largest streams of migration.
A few years hence, the GOP will face the fate it failed to avert in
California. Once the Golden State was Nixon and Reagan country, as those
two Republicans carried California on all seven presidential tickets on
which they ran from 1952 to 1984.
Moreover, former
red states such as Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Arizona are now
swing states, and Texas is trending that way. Democrats, too, have a
white folks problem. At the party's apex are Speaker Pelosi and Majority
Whip Steny Hoyer, both octogenarian white folks. Senate Minority leader
Schumer and Minority Whip Dick Durbin are white septuagenarians.
Presidential nominee Joe Biden is a 77-year-old white man who
would be older than our oldest president, Ronald Reagan, was the day he
left office.
The last white man appointed to the Supreme Court by a Democratic president was Stephen Breyer back in 1994. At 82, he is now the oldest justice serving. The days of white liberals dominating the rising party of America's people of color may be over this decade.
https://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2020/09/25/all-the-chips-are-on-the-table-now-n2576870
