Posted on 04/06/2017 12:43:33 PM PDT by scooby321
President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court could have a say in rulings on religious freedom, transgender bathrooms in schools, and private property rights, if he is confirmed before April 16.
One is regarding whether a Christian school in Missouri is entitled to compete for the same state dollars as nonreligious schools. The outcome could affect so-called Blaine amendments in states across the country. The second case involves property rights in Wisconsin. The third is a transgender bathroom case out of a Virginia high school, and how broadly the federal government may interpret Title IX, a federal law that bars sexual discrimination in education.
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Can’t he also rule on an emergency stay for POTUS travel ban?
Not a fan of getting state funds. I would much prefer to see state tax deductions instead.
Once he is sworn in he can rule on any case unless he recuses himself.
Yes, yes he will!
Wasn’t Trump involved in a HUGE Public Domain Battle years ago when building one of his Casinos or something on the East Coast? Some little old granny wouldn’t budge from her home and it was eventually taken from her, anyway?
I seem to remember a helluvalot of bitchin’ about that around here.
Can anyone refresh my memory of that case? It’ll be interesting to see how a Trump SC Pick would rule on a future Public Domain case.
I believe you are correct.
But I think it is unlikely that a Justice Gorsuch would rule on such a case based on what the President did 20 years ago when he was a private citizen.
Make Caitlyn Jenner Bruce Again! Get em Gorsuch
Trump lost out on a bid to have the lot seized in an eminent domain proceeding. So he built around her.
Not a fan of the state being the middleman for education money.
Since it is, it should go wherever the parents of children want it to go.
Hate the filthy in-your-face anti-theists who openly try to use the power of government (by things like ... say...taking money from pm the citizenry for schools and then insisting that those be neomarxist schools) to enforce their secular agenda.
Credit where credit is due.
If I remember correctly I think this has to do with funds to provide a special surface (scrap tires) for a school play yard that is used by students and members of the public.
He will be confirmed tomorrow p.m. Don’t put it past the dims to try some sleazy trick to prevent him from being sworn in. If Trump is smart, he will have Gorsuch standing by somewhere with Pence and a Bible and sware him in the second after the Senate votes to confirm.
This all goes back to a time when no filibusters against Supreme Court nominees would have even been considered. Only since about 2005 have there been these kinds of Senate activism regarding the “Nuclear option”. Then Minority Leader of the Senate Harry Reid was terribly concerned that the filibuster rule could be demolished, and only the collusion of the “Gang of Fourteen” prevented the removal of the 60-vote supermajority then.
But in 2013, to insure that ALL the nominees of the Obama regime got confirmed, the now Majority Leader of the Senate Harry Reid thought it a most important objective to reverse himself on the “Nuclear option”, as then the DEMOCRATS would benefit while they still held the Senate. Only nominations to the Supreme Court were still held to be sacrosanct.
But the precedent had been set, and in 2017, there is no “Gang of Fourteen” to postpone the inevitable.
Well, unless something really unforeseen goes down. Do not totally discount that happening, either.
You can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You get what you need
A tax credit would not involve getting permission from the government about how the funds are used. And the less fingers the NEA has in my back pocket the better.
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