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    Kamala Harris Lied About Abraham Lincoln and the Supreme Court


    PANTS ON FIRE: Kamala Harris Lied About Abraham Lincoln and the Supreme Court
    By Tyler O'Neil OCT 08, 2020 1:04 AM EST
    Kamala Harris Lied About Lincoln and the Supreme Court


    Kamala Harris must have been so proud of herself. During the vice-presidential debate on Wednesday, she argued that President Donald Trump should not have nominated Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and she cited as her precedent none other than Abraham Lincoln himself — "Honest Abe."

    As it turns out, however, Kamala Harris was being less than honest in her portrayal of Abraham Lincoln's record.

    "In 1864... Abraham Lincoln was up for reelection, and it was 27 days before the election, and a seat became open on the United States Supreme Court. Abraham Lincoln's party was in charge not only of the White House but the Senate," Harris began.

    "But Honest Abe said, 'It's not the right thing to do. The American people deserve to make the decision about who will be the next president of the United States and then that person can select who will serve for a lifetime on the highest court of our land.'"

    Yet Lincoln said no such thing.
    In fact, the polarization of the Supreme Court is a fairly recent phenomenon, dating back to the living Constitution approach of activist judges amending the Constitution by fiat — "discovering" a right to abortion in the Fourteenth Amendment, for example. Before Roe v. Wade (1973), and really before Joe Biden led the smear campaign against Robert Bork in 1987, Supreme Court nominations often proceeded as a matter of course.

    Harris was correct that when Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney died on October 12, 1864, President Lincoln did not nominate his successor, Salmon P. Chase, until after the election. This had nothing to do with letting "the next president" choose the nominee, however.

    As National Review's Dan McLaughlin explained, Lincoln delayed because the Senate was not in session when Taney died. In fact, the Senate session ended on July 4, 1864, and did not convene again until December 5, 1864. "It was once common for the Senate to be out of session for much of the summer and fall," McLaughlin wrote. The Senate session calendar confirms this.

    As McLaughlin noted, Lincoln nominated Chase on the very day that the Senate reconvened, and the Senate confirmed him that day.

    In fact, historian David Donald claimed that Lincoln dangled a potential Supreme Court nomination before Chase in the hopes that Chase — a former senator, governor, secretary of the Treasury, and presidential candidate — would support Lincoln's reelection. He did so, and the president won reelection—a reelection that was vital to winning the Civil War.

    Lincoln did not delay the nomination out of some high democratic principle. He certainly did not do so in order to prevent President Donald Trump from nominating a successor to Ruth Bader Ginsburg 156 years hence. He did so because the Senate was out of session, and that may have worked to his benefit in corralling Chase to support his reelection.

    Make no mistake: Kamala Harris twisted history on Lincoln and the Supreme Court — and she did so in order to dodge a far more pertinent question: whether she and Joe Biden support packing the Court, fundamentally changing the rules of the game to support the very "living Constitution" judicial activism that politicized the Court in the first place.







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    CNN or MSNBC fact check her on that yet?

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    Vice presidential debate: ABC News only fact checks Pence, ignores Harris
    'It reads like a talking points memo directly from Democrats,' Tim Young said
    By Brian Flood
    Vice presidential debate: ABC News only fact checks Pence, ignores Harris | Fox News


    ABC News published a lengthy feature that claimed to fact check Wednesday's vice presidential debate between Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris, but the Disney-owned network only bothered to scrutinize one of the candidates.

    The piece, "Fact-checking the 2020 vice presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris," promised to review "what both candidates said" but went on to examine only Pence's comments...



    ...In total, ABC News fact-checked 12 different moments from the debate and all of them were examining Pence.

    ABC News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    "I can't tell if the fact-checkers at ABC are actually working for the Biden-Harris campaign or not with this article," political satirist Tim Young told Fox News. "It reads like a talking points memo directly from Democrats."

    Young said "there were many moments where Harris clearly needed to be fact-checked" during the debate, which should have been included in any objective piece. ...




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    There's a special place for liars....

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    Amy Klobuchar Repeats Kamala Harris' Debunked Lie About Abe Lincoln
    by Matt PalumboPosted: October 13, 2020
    Amy Klobuchar Repeats Kamala Harris''' Debunked Lie About Abe Lincoln | Dan Bongino


    The Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearings are underway today on their second day, and the Democrats are not sending their best.

    As was the case yesterday, Democrats aren't even pretending that Barrett's qualifications or integrity are under question, and are instead obsessing over cases such as Roe V. Wade and challenges to ObamaCare, presumably in attempt to get some soundbites before ACB is inevitably confirmed to the Supreme Court.

    "This hearing is not normal. It's a sham. It's a rush." Klobuchar said. "The last time we had a vacancy so close to an election is when Abraham Lincoln was President. And he made the wise decision to wait until after the election."...


    ...It was a lie when Harris said it, and it's still a lie now
    . In reality, Lincoln didn't send a nominee in October 1864 to the Senate because the Senate was out of session until December. He sent nominee Salmon P. Chase to the Senate during the second day of the new session, and he was was confirmed that same day....








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    Why doesn't somebody 'fact check' this right after it comes out of their mouth and speak up?

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