Posted on 06/08/2017 4:40:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
With much of the media is fixated on Russia, Comey, and potential obstruction, other goings-on inside the Beltway are getting relatively scant attention. The White House is ramping up its focus on rebuilding US infrastructure (a common Trump campaign refrain), Republican Senators may be forging ahead with some progress on desperately-needed reforms to Obamacare's failing status quo, and the president has unveiled another substantial roster of nominees to fill federal court vacancies. Three names on the list are slated to serve on important and influent circuit courts of appeal -- including a woman Trump has tapped to assume Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch's seat on the Tenth Circuit. Details:
One of the nominees, Colorado Supreme Court Justice Allison H. Eid, is being tapped by the president to fill a vacancy on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals created when Justice Neil Gorsuch was confirmed for the Supreme Court in April. Justice Eid was on Mr. Trump’s list of conservative potential Supreme Court nominees that he presented to voters during the presidential campaign last year. She has served on Colorado’s high court since 2006, and previously was the state’s solicitor general. Mr. Trump also nominated U.S. District Court Judge Ralph R. Erickson of North Dakota for the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and said he intends to nominate University of Pennsylvania Law School professor Stephanos Bibas to serve on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Erickson has served on the district court since 2003.
The picks are receiving high marks from conservative court watchers. Here's the Judicial Crisis Network's Carrie Severino's glowing statement:
“President Trump has just announced his latest batch of appellate and district court nominees. It's a fantastic list, again drawing on his previous success from his Supreme Court list, by nominating Colorado Supreme Court Justice Allison Eid to fill Justice Gorsuch's vacant seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Many of the nominees are well known in the conservative legal movement and have shown commitment to principled and evenhanded application of the law throughout their careers. For the many Americans whose top concern in November was electing a president who would put committed constitutionalists to the courts, this is another major victory.”
Prominent conservative-libertarian law professor Jonathan Adler joins the chorus of approval: "President Trump continues to put forward superlative judicial nominees with sterling credentials and impressive intellects. It's especially notable that President Trump continues to pick current and former academics for the appellate bench, more so than any recent President. This will only magnify the impact his nominees are likely to have on the federal courts," he said. In a May post about Trump's previous round of judicial nominees, I drew extra attention to a handful of names rumored to be possible future SCOTUS short-listers, in the event that Justice Kennedy retires and/or another justice leaves the Court. It's time to add Allison Eid as a serious contender within that elite cluster, having previously been included on the roster of Supreme Court options released by Trump's campaign.
During my stretch as a visiting fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution this spring, I chatted with former conservative circuit court judge Michael McConnell, who himself was rumored to be a Supreme Court finalist during the Bush era. He offered fulsome praise for Trump's recently-announced picks, and predicted that Ms. Eid would be a top candidate to replace Gorsuch. Getting through a recent Senate confirmation process would also augment her SCOTUS resume, he said at the time -- noting that her youth, reliable judicial philosophy, winsome nature and toughness would make her an attractive option if and when a High Court vacancy opened up. McConnell nailed his first prediction; let's see if he was also onto something when he mused that Eid may be onto even bigger things, perhaps quite soon. And in case you were curious, it's not unprecedented, or even necessarily particularly unusual, for a recently-elevated circuit court judge or senior official to be nominated for the ultimate promotion in short order.
So far, the Senate has confirmed just one of Trump's circuit court selections, but thanks to the Reid Rule, Democrats are powerless to stop any of them without GOP assistance. The upper chamber should move these nominations through as rapidly as possible and continue the crucial work of undoing some of the damage President Obama inflicted by packing these lower courts with liberals. I'll leave you with this tidbit. It looks like after enduring some criticism for a glacial pace of administration nominations, Team Trump is picking up the slack at a pretty rapid rate:
After media coverage of slow nominations pace, WH has sent 29 nominations to the Senate in 2 days (17 yesterday, 12 today)
— Ben Pershing (@benpershing) June 7, 2017
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Excellent!!!
Isn’t it interesting that Trump goes about taking care of business, particularly during times when everyone’s focused on stupid, inconsequential shiny things?
One might even say that Trump deliberately throws out stupid shiny things for the idiots in the media to all chase after, so he can do MAGA stuff...
Call it the “Covfefe Technique”
Eid??
Ain’t that a GOOK holiday?
(Or am I just looking for trouble?)
And this is probably the number one reason I voted for Trump.
Real judges to apply the law, not indulge their personal policy preferences.
Why do you use a word that is meant to be disrespectful to East Asians?
“Call it the “Covfefe Technique””
How about ‘Covfefe Gate’?
“other goings-on inside the Beltway are getting relatively scant attention”
Exactly. I said it when he was still picking his cabinet that he should be letting the media go bonkers over non-sense while he quietly implements our agenda.....
Sarah Palin would be a great decoy—appoint her to some useless, but important sounding position. She can then take the media’s attention from agenda implementation with her “circus sideshow” and “right-wing antics”
now it’s up to Mitch to get his appointments confirmed
We have different disrespectful terms for other varieties of Asians.
He probably served in Nam. Quite a few soldiers that have seen intense action use slang terms for the race that was trying to kill them. I heard our Pastor a long time ago use the word “Japs”, during a sermon. He was in the first wave of Marines at Iwo Jima. Id cut him some slack as I don’t know what his situation is/was.
The nominations appear to be sound, yet I worry about the above.
Wow! Impressed here. Well done, Mr Presient.
More swamp draining.
Maybe Vietnam vet like someone else said OR
He’s just not as POLITICALLY CORRECT as you seem to be.
It’s a “WORD”. It’s “FREE SPEECH”.
Remember... YOU do not have a right to NOT be offended, but I concede that you also have the right of free speech to voice your opposition to his free speech or mine.
When I grew up all Japanese were “Japs”. All Vietnamese were gooks, Mexicans were wet-backs, and Puerto-Ricans were Spics.
These words were part of the everyday lexicon. You would hear them every day in public. Their use has waned considerably in recent years. That’s okay, times change, but words are still words.
“Political Correctness” (PC) is DESTROYING our society. Renaming everything is a big part of it.
“Illegal alien” becomes “undocumented worker”. WHY?
“Illegal alien”
1. Illegal:
They broke our laws by “illegally” entering our country.
2. Alien:
The exact correct term for a person from a different country. They ARE “aliens”.
“undocumented worker”
1. undocumented:
They have documents (somewhere) their documents are just from a FOREIGN COUNTRY.
2. workers: A majority of them are not workers. They are women, children, criminals, terrorists, lazy welfare cheaters. (temporary workers may enter the country LEGALLY to work)
You tell me (rhetorical question), which term is a more accurate description?
One is exactly accurate the other ridiculously STUPID (PC)
We HAVE TO STOP using THEIR words. The original words are just fine.
Good news for all. I hope more of this caliber are coming.
I was wondering why a person would "choose" to use that particular one.
Some have suggested that there may be a connection to horrific experiences from Vietnam. That is a valid explanation, and I leave it at that.
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Rights are God-given and guaranteed by our Constitution. Choices are our own, and we should be prepared to deal with the consequences.
I have a "right" to ask someone why he made a particular "choice"--and he has a right to answer or ignore my question.
You certainly have a "right" to lecture me on political correctness. (As a very "politically incorrect" individual, I find that amusing--as would most of my friends.)
My question is why you would "choose" to SHOUT--that's what using ALL CAPITALS amounts to.) I am not saying you can't or shouldn't. I am just wondering why you did.
Your analogy doesn’t work. “Illegal alien” is a technically accurate phrase to describe someone from a foreign country who is in the U.S. without permission. It may sound harsh, but it is a factually accurate description. “Gook” is an insulting term for a Korean person. It is meant to be an insult. It serves no other purpose other than to be an insult.
You have the right to use insulting terms for other people, or support those who do. But the fact that you would choose to do so, for no apparent reason, says more about you than about those whom you disparage.
That Thai officer was a very good friend who hung around with me and my friends. He used to go downtown to the R& R bars with us and pretend to be from Hawaii. He of course also pretended to did not understand the Thai which the bar girls were using to discuss the Johns.
My 3rd ex wife who was Pinay, got a kick out of it when I explained our term for her people. FLIP isn't exactly nice.
“Why do you use a word that is meant to be disrespectful to East Asians?”
“GOOK” is Korean for “Man.” They call white men “MiGooks.”
Gook is NOT a disrespectful term in Korea.
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