Posted on 04/22/2017 10:52:23 AM PDT by Starman417
While the chattering class was lamenting the delay on ObamaCare repeal and replace and promised tax reform, they ignored perhaps the most importance consequence of President Trump’s election, a major accomplishment in his first 100 days, the transformation of the Supreme Court into a conservative and constitutional bastion of freedom.
The appointment and confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch has already borne fruit as he cast the deciding vote allowing the execution of multiple Arkansas death row inmates to proceed. As Bloomberg Politics reported:
Justice Neil Gorsuch took his first major action on the U.S. Supreme Court by casting the deciding vote to let Arkansas begin executing a group of death-row inmates.No doubt this marks the beginning of the end for liberal activism and legislating from the bench in the nation’s federal courts, a trend that may accelerate with the possibility of an imminent vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court as hinted by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, at a National Association of Manufacturers event on Tuesday:In a series of orders Thursday night, the high court cleared the state to execute Ledell Lee, one of eight convicted murderers that Arkansas has been trying to put to death before one of its lethal-injection drugs expires at the end of the month. Arkansas executed Lee minutes after the court rejected the last of his requests.
During a visit to Muscatine Tuesday morning, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he expects a Supreme Court Justice resignation within the year.It would seem that “rumored” vacancy might be “swing-vote” Justice Anthony Kennedy, for whom Gorsuch once clerked. As reported by HotAir.com:"I would expect a resignation this summer," he said.
An upcoming resignation has been "rumored," he said, but he did not name a justice. The question was posed to him during a question-and-answer session at Kent Corporation headquarters, by Kent employees, National Association of Manufacturers members and elected officials at Kent Corporation headquarters.
A person would likely be nominated from the same list from which recently appointed Justice Neil Gorsuch was chosen, Grassley said, most of whom he said are well-qualified.
For the past few weeks, rumors have swirled around Washington that swing-vote Justice Anthony Kennedy wants to hang up his robe and ride off into the sunset. He hasn’t interviewed prospective clerks for the next session, and has moved up his traditional five-year summer reunions for past clerks up a year. The New York Times speculated at the end of January that Donald Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch was intended in part to signal to Kennedy that Trump would replace him with a serious jurist.During the transition, among the many somewhat surprising visitors to Trump Tower was Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a former Trump presidential rival with whom unpleasant commentaries were exchanged. Politics does indeed make strange bedfellows and if we have seen anything since November 8 it is that President Trump has proven more magnanimous and less vindictive than both his political opponents and media critics have painted him.
Gorsuch was on the list or 21 names Trump had announced for Supreme Court consideration, a list that made most conservatives ecstatic. Ted Cruz’s name was not, although Cruz ally was on Trump’s short list for SCOTUS Cruz would make a great second pick – a constitutional originalist in the Scalia mode who actually worked with Scalia to save the Second Amendment..
The broad swath of GOP control at all levels of government presents a huge opportunity to, as Trump promised, to drain the swamp. Already we have a very real prospect of repealing and replacing ObamaCare, of enacting pro-growth tax reform, rebuilding the military, securing our borders, and, yes, putting the Supreme Court on the right path for generations.
The prospect of restoring and protecting religious liberty and the Second Amendment and reigning in the regulatory excesses of federal agencies is at hand. Ted Cruz, who campaigned with Vice President-elect Mike Pence for Trump in Iowa, has pledged to work with Trump on Supreme Court appointments, tweeting after their meeting:
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In 1999 Ted Cruz was helping Bush avoid enforcement of our immigration laws on the books.
As late as the 2015/2016 time frame, Ted went to the border and handed out soccer balls and teddy bears to the children of illegal aliens.
A little after mid-2015, Ted was still pushing to get the H1-B visa permits raised to 500% of what they were at that time.
He was doing the circuit against the Corker bill in the Senate. He was making presentations telling folks not to support Corker or vote for it.
In the end, he did just that.
When TPA came up, he said he was dead set against it. Then he voted for support legislation that had to be passed before TPA could be passed.
This man HAS NOT been working for us.
He talks a good game, and then goes off the reservation.
You’re kidding yourself.
No; he was not on the list on which President Trump campaigned.
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You live in an imaginary world.
So anxious to carry every lying bucket of faeces.
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Uh huh
Tell Amanda Carpenter I said “ Hi”
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What a jackass you are!
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Sent via pm.
Thank you. We can agree to disagree. Looks like it got lost.
I think I’m beginning to see why you think Cruz is perfect.
You won’t admit to facts that counter that view.
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Your “facts” belong in the white bowl you fished them out of.
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Sorry, I don’t get my facts out of places where you float.
You honestly didn’t know that each of those things is verifiable?
You just pop up to defend Ted, and don’t know the first thing about his past.
Cheese!
Mmmmm
Especially in hotel rooms late at night
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Nice try.
You’re affirming everything I ever believed about you.
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Why would I possibly care what you think about me?
I just listed a number of things about Cruz that are irrefutable, and you simply dismissed them to claim Cruz has been without blemish or some such.
F A I L
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Why do you persist in posting your Love Lies to me?
You live for falsehood.
So you’ve decided your best defense is to use Democrat tactics?
That post was 100% projection.
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I don’t need any defense.
You seem to be confused about who promulgated your lies.
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Sorry you’re so intellectually challenged, but I didn’t include one lie in what I laid out for you.
You are the one lying your ass off.
Disprove anything I said.
Waiting...
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Nothing you have posted WRT senator Cruz has been truthful.
Nothing!
Ever.
Get counselling soon.
I am in favor of Ted Cruz on the court.
Ted would be a GREAT Supreme Court justice, but I think we need him in the Senate.
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