Posted on 07/02/2018 8:13:18 PM PDT by familyop
Empirical SCOTUS blog sees Brett Kavanaugh as likely SCOTUS nominee
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3667950/posts
June 28, 2018
There is something ‘fishy’ about one of Trump’s potential Supreme Court nominees
Thanks to SE Mom for bringing this article to my attention. :-)
Lorreta Powers said Thomas Hardiman
Judge Amy Coney Barrett is the youngest of that group.
I agree, and I’ve always thought that if they’re strong on 2A, they’re very likely to be good on all issues of Constitutional and individual rights. On that count, Kavanaugh seems like a solid choice to me, and definitely seems safer than some of the other names mentioned as top contenders.
Kananaugh is a RINO!! Stop him!!!
Absolutely! Glad you posted it. They’re all excellent choices, imagine if Ms. Clinton had 2 SCOTUS picks...
These guys are both seasoned judges with solud records.
It’ll be Barett precisely for the reasons the idiot writer considers faults. At 46 she can leave the longest legacy on the court and it would paint Manchin, Heitkamp, Donelly and McCaskill as anti-prolife-woman in their election years.
If this kinda stuff is what you would one time ping me for, I’ll just go ahead and subscribe. TY
Have no comment now. But I just opened my first beer and sat down to looksie.
I am rooting for Judge Amy Coney Barrett (7th Cir.), 46, of Indiana.
she “also might bring on the culture-war apocalypse.”
Bring it. Bring all they have. We will deal with it.
Why would anyone think that Barrett being catholic means she’s conservative? Most Catholics these days are liberals, including the Pope!
I haven’t frequently and consistently posted articles for a long time, but you’re on familyop’s Second Amendment ping list. :-)
Unless one of you others out there already have one. If so, let me know. And put both of us on it.
One of my father’s near ancestors was a Catholic woman of Irish descent. Her husband died, when her son was a small child. Her daughter became a nun and was the object of several charismatic tales. Then, it ended. They didn’t see it as being conservative—not even the nun, when she was old and still in the convent.
I lived in a Catholic community in a small city for a while. From the perspective of a young, new arrival back then, it was a peaceful and even boring environment. But from one who had lived there for a few years, it was exciting—too exciting. But I somehow managed to survive it and get away with my life.
That small city wasn’t Chicago, but it sure was related by blood relatives and federal roundups.
The Night Chicago Died
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-L0NpaErkk
Lyrics
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The second thing that concerns me is the prevalent media and man in the street attitude toward the judiciary. The liberal establishment has for a long time viewed the courts as a second alternative legislature, within which to obtain decisions and pass "laws" that it could never ram through congress.
I'm afraid conservatives have adopted the same strategy. This tactic is fraught with danger for the republic, resulting in an overblown reliance upon judicial decisions which are affecting the everyday lives of millions of Americans, and disrupting the checks and balances that were supposed to exist between the three branches of government.
The media, both conservative and liberal alike, are going bananas over these picks, and dragging the populace along with them. We don't need a high octane judiciary. We need a return to reality and balance and a push to seriously consider shorter terms for supreme court justices.
Forty years or more as a justice is just a recipe for more abuse of power. It would also be a breath of fresh air if future nominees were not exclusively culled from the population of law school graduates.
This perverse reliance upon law degrees as the litmus test for congressional as well as judicial nominees and candidacies has contributed substantially to the sickness existing within our governmental institutions today.
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