Posted on 02/23/2017 7:53:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I would expect violent protest, at a minimum, from the Left if there is a second opening and President Trump nominates a true conservative. They simply will not accept a change in the balance of the Court.
Sen. Ted Cruz predicted Thursday that President Trump will have the ability to fill a second vacancy on the Supreme Court in 2017, the Washington Examiner reported.
“I think we’ll have another Supreme Court vacancy this summer,” Cruz said at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “If that happens, as much as the left is crazy now, they will go full Armageddon meltdown because the next vacancy is where we’ll have the ability to act and restore basic Constitution protections.”
The Texas Republican didn’t elaborate on who he believes will be leaving the court, although Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy is reportedly thinking about retirement.
Both Kennedy and Thomas want to retire. Let’s hope someone talks Thomas into staying a while longer.
Ruth is expecting to shuffle off this mortal coil.
She will pass on from sleep apnea.
“Let’s hope someone talks Thomas into staying a while longer.”
If he wants to retire the best time is now.
He may be right. It’s likely either Ginsburg or Kennedy. Replace either with an originalist — especially Ginsburg — and the left will go ballistic.
Rumor has it that the looney ACLU extremist is not too long for this world.....pancreatic cancer.....death is coming to even the most twisted of minds.
I’d be totally fine with Trump putting some younger, dependable SC Justices in for Ginsberg, Thomas AND Kennedy. In the next few years, too!
She’s just restin’
Beautiful plumage!
Won’t be Cruz. He’s taking McConnell’s job.
lol
Hahaahha! Love it.
I have the sense she will hold on til the very end. Interesting though, and Cruz would be in a position to know.
Who would Hillary have picked?
When you’ve clerked there, especially for the chief justice, you’re in with the in crowd.
Van Jones? Keith Ellison? Michelle Obama? Some random lesbian Latinx?
Hillary would have picked one of the jerks on the 9th circus, or someone just like them.
“Who would Hillary have picked?”
Gaaahhhh!!! I still get freaked out at the thought that she came as close as she did to getting elected!!!!
Nuke 'em.
Ginsburg looks like a freaking corpse, my guess is that she may be out the door this year.
I actually think it’s Roberts. It’s no minor trash-talk speculating on SCOTUS dish/dirt, that’s a career-ending move if you’re wrong, and if there’s evidence Roberts succumbed to being leaned on, oh well.
It’s not like Cruz is hubristic, betting on death pools. He’s been nested up in SCOTUS since he was 25, and is confident enough to risk it all on... vengeance on Judiciary corruption?
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