Posted on 08/08/2015 11:58:33 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
Retired pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson is warning Donald Trump that a third party run could do more than just put Hillary Clinton in the White House. Carson cautioned the billionaire businessman than an independent presidential bid would tilt the balance of the Supreme Court in a liberal direction for generations.
"If he [Donald Trump] decides to run a third party campaign, he basically will be giving the election to the progressives who will get two or three Supreme Court picks," Carson told Fox News host Megyn Kelly Friday.
Over the past decade numerous split decisions reveal the replacement of even one justice could tip the balance of power on the court. By 2020, four Supreme Court justices will be in their 80s, meaning the next president will play a pivotal role in shaping the future trajectory of the High Court.
Reliably liberal justice. Ruth Bader Ginsberg is an 82-year-old pancreatic cancer survivor; conservative mainstay Antonin Scalia is slightly younger at 79. Clinton appointee Stephen Breyer is 76 years old...
Should Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton win the White House and replace Ginsberg and Breyer, along with either Kennedy or Scalia, she could secure a very liberal voting bloc in which none of the justices were born before 1954. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Carson isn’t paying attention sometimes.
The GOPE appoint the same kind of judges as the Democrats.
And that’s different from what we have now ... how?
I love ya Ben, but we already lost the Supreme Court. Bush saw to that.
And Trump won’t? The guy loved the Kelo decision.
yep.
Yeah, let’s let a third Bush choose our Supreme Court justices because that’s been working so well.
A very important message coming from Ben Carson.
This is more than just the presidency on the line, and Ben Carson is absolutely correct on this.
DingDingDing, we have a winner!
Trump is a RINO, though.
We don’t have to have RINO Jeb or RINO Trump at the helm.
So you would rather have Hillary appointing SCOTUS justices?
Will we get justices entirely beholden to Trump if Trump is buying Congress critters, as was said about him at the debate?
So we should just give up...
Nah, I would rather not.
John Roberts has proven that Court picks are not always what we think.
I’m never voting for any of The Cheap Labor Express candidates, so if the GOP nominates one they are forfeiting millions of votes, just like the last two elections.
¡Yeb! is the worst Democrat in an R jersey they have ever tried to foist on us. He is a Designated Loser.
Trump is clearly a RINO.
Carson is not. He, along with Cruz, are one of my top three faves as I stated yesterday.
| GWB: Roberts (fail), Alito (pass) |
| GHWB: Souter (epic fail), Thomas (pass) |
Republicans can’t even run on “Think of the JUDGES!!!” anymore, that’s how badly they’ve blown it.
Who said we should give up? You must have mistakenly posted to me.
Right?
Hmm, Ben, a George W Bush appointee just gave us Obamacare
False choice.
Cruz, along with Carson, is no Jeb Bush.
But Trump IS a RINO.
There is nothing in the Constitution that limits the number of judges to 9.
A Right wing POTUS could add six members if he had the stones.
Chavez made short work of a PITA Supreme Court in Venezuela, don’t think it can’t happen here.
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