Concerns with the judicial record of Judge Pryor center on two of his activist decisions on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. First, in Glenn v. Brumby, 633 F.3d 1312 (11th Cir. 2011), Pryor usurped legislative power by purporting to judicially create – without precedent and without constitutional and statutory support – a new “transgender” civil right to employment, including a man's use of the women’s restrooms in the workplace.Second, in Keeton v. Anderson-Wiley, 664 F.3d 865 (11th Cir. 2011), Pryor affirmed the expulsion of a female Christian student from a state college for refusing to engage in a “remediation plan” of her views on sexuality which included the suggestion that she attend a “Gay Pride Parade.”
Solid conservative Richard Viguerie is suggesting Pryor is an Anthony Kennedy in hiding.
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Sounds like a very scary possible nominee and by no means an acceptable replacement for Justice Scalia.
Send a message: Roy Moore.
I’ll store this news with “Romney for SOS. “
Super important!
Trump should show how much he “hates” women by nominating Diane Sykes as his first pick for the Supreme Court.
Not because I believe in identity politics - but because she’s a solid conservative choice who will make liberal heads explode.
So let’s hope and pray Trump’s court nominee is not Pryor. If it is, I am afraid he may ignite against himself many of the forces that helped elect him President, and not King.
As long as Trump is supporting good ideas, fine, but when he goes off on a progressive/Liberal course, he should hopefully find a Congress that speaks for itself, not him.
Hugh Hewitt endorsed Judge Pryor on-air last week.
Pretty much takes Pryor out of the running.
That right there totally disqualifies Pryor in my mind. We've seen this story too many times. Once on the bench, these guys are liberated from their conservative fig leaves and go full leftist, Stouter is one example. I would argue that John Roberts certainly did not live up to his billing as well.
Your information is incomplete. Pryor wrote a concurring opinion, writing that the 11th Circuit: "never ruled that a public university can discriminate against student speech based on the concern that the student might, in a variety of circumstances, express views at odds with the preferred viewpoints of the university. Our precedents roundly reject prior restraints in the public school setting."
Isn’t Pryor a close friend of Sen. Sessions?
President Donald Trump won the election without the help of Mike Lee who joined Romney and others to undermine and defeat him. In October Lee even urged Trump to withdraw from the race. Good info on Lee and his interest in trade just by typing his name and Trump on the net and read all of the actions Lee took to protect Utah interests. Conservative Treehouse had an article about Lee recently. A Globalist or a sympathetic follower would not be a good, America First, Supreme Court Justice. Utah did, in spite of Romney and Lee and other Utah Republicans, vote for Trump and helped him to win. If Lee had prevailed the globalists would have won, and destroyed, this Republic.
"A woman wrote this. I'm impressed:
"It's true that Second Amendment litigation is new, and Chicago's ordinance is unlike any firearms law that has received appellate review since Heller. But that doesn't mean we are without a framework for how to proceed. The Supreme Court's approach to deciding Heller points in a general direction. Although the critical question in Heller - whether the Amendment secures an individual or collective right - was interpretive rather than doctrinal, the Court's decision method is instructive.With little precedent to synthesize, Heller focused almost exclusively on the original public meaning of the Second Amendment, consulting the text and relevant historical materials to determine how the Amendment was understood at the time of ratification. This inquiry led the Court to conclude that the Second Amendment secures a pre-existing natural right to keep and bear arms; that the right is personal and not limited to militia service; and that the "central component of the right" is the right of armed self-defense, most notably in the home." - Judge Diane Sykes, Ezell v. Chicago, 651 F. 3d 684 - Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit 2011, as quoted here; also note as Volokh summated here:
"The "plaintiffs are the 'law-abiding, responsible citizens' whose Second Amendment rights are entitled to full solicitude under Heller ... The City's firing-range ban is not merely regulatory; it prohibits the 'law-abiding, responsible citizens' of Chicago from engaging in target practice in the controlled environment of a firing range. This is a serious encroachment on the right to maintain proficiency in firearm use, an important corollary to the meaningful exercise of the core right to possess firearms for self-defense."
Diane Sykes would be his woman appointee with a solid conservative record. Only negative is that she is already over the 60 y.o. “barrier” for a nominee.
Considering that women live a lot longer than men, I think that could be overlooked.
What about Judge Jeannine Pirro?
Wow. I wasn’t aware of this.
Lee however is a bad idea for this nomination because a) Trump said he’d name someone from a list that Lee isn’t on, and b) because we have no confidence that he’d be replaced by a conservative in the Senate—would we get Egg McMuffin? Another Hatch?
Leni