{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "If Dems had the House it might be worth it to impeach just to tie up the Senate and distract it from filling judgeships until...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/168489322228/", "html": "<p><a href=\"/post/168489153448/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"/post/168488847323/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote><p>If Dems had the House it might be worth it to impeach just to tie up the Senate and distract it from filling judgeships until they had a chance to take it in \u201818</p><p>Wait\u2026 could the Senate pull a Garland and just decline to schedule hearings? I never thought of that.</p></blockquote>\n\n<p>honestly I could see the ultimate result of the 2016 election turning out to be \u201cthe Senate takes over from the Presidency as the leading organ of government\u201d</p></blockquote>\n\n<p>this is a potential way for anti-Trump momentum to prop up a new regime even more rural white minority-weighted than the Electoral College, btw</p>"}