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To: Kaslin

does the President have the power to make clarence thomas the chief justice?


2 posted on 06/19/2020 7:04:41 AM PDT by naturalborn
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To: naturalborn

No. Roberts has to die or resign.


5 posted on 06/19/2020 7:06:53 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: naturalborn
Does the President have the power to make clarence thomas the chief justice?

I sure hope so. Roberts is a Bush league NeverTrumper.
48 posted on 06/19/2020 8:06:24 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: naturalborn

Technically possible, but pointless and not practical. There’d be a confirmation hearing, and the CJ doesn’t have a huge amount of unique power.


63 posted on 06/19/2020 12:46:26 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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