Posted on 06/24/2017 4:51:20 PM PDT by jazusamo
“Ginsburg will have to be carried out.
Couldn’t agree more, she’ll not go willingly”
If unable to perform her job can Roberts “officially” force her out?
Please, not yet.
Let Ruth or Breyer go first. Then you can retire. Both will be replaced by conservative judges.
For the average folks it is hard.Once you have power you are offered all kinds of things.Unless you stay on your original thought you will be sucked up.Never try to get into the mind of a negative.
I doubt it but am not familiar with the law.
She could be impeached but I seriously doubt that would happen.
I hear you, it would probably be the ideal thing.
(health care)
It certainly would be, under the conditions they set. But it's a problem that has to be solved, at least enough so that the nation isn't economically beyond repair because it's subsidizing bad health and overpriced solutions. If there is ever to be a way out of the mess, it's going to take some very astute thinkers. Ted Cruz is one of the few in the US Senate who has the brain power to work for a solution.
They tend to save the important opinions for the last days of the Term. She is probably the author of some of those.
CROAK already!
I always just called it SODOMIZER.
I’m pretty sure he already said he’s going back to the list again.
I have been smoking (tobacco) since I was 11 years old, drinking whiskey since I was 17 years old, been a ranchhand, Firefighter, a Marine (also firefights), heavy duty truck driver, dumb old plumber, and supervised 87 men in all the trades. Retired and now I am just a dumb old farmer.
Had to finally see a doctor for a hearing test (yes I got the hearing aids), the Doc decided I needed a whole sh!tpot full of tests (hadn’t seen a Doc since 1982), some of them were quite horrible.
I read the finale results and about died laughing; the report said “you are in very good physical condition for a man your age, continue your healthy life style and make an appointment for a full physical in a years time”.
OK DOC (what other response could I give)?
Still laughing about that report.
Thomas Lee in Utah as a replacement and most Scalia like?
someone please WAKE UP Ginsberg and tell her to retire!
someone please WAKE UP Ginsberg and tell her to retire!
Perhaps God will find a way to enable that.
” President Trump needs to pick a justice in his/he 40’s-50’s so that the position can outlast President Trump’s presidency and solidify a conservative court for the next 20 years.”
The problem with younger judges is they can turn left once appointed. John Paul Stevens was a conservative when appointed by Gerald Ford at age 55. He “evolved” into one of the more liberal justices.
Justice Kennedy, who was appointed by Ronald Reagan and joined the court at age 52 has been a swing vote on the court not a reliable conservative. The same held true with another Reagan pick Justice Sandra Day O’Conner who was appointed at age 51.
Justice Roberts, touted as a conservative when appointed by George W. Bush at age 50, has also not been a reliable conservative vote on the court.
History shows conservative judges often evolve into progressives. Harry Blackman of Roe v. Wade fame is a prime example. He was appointed by Richard Nixon at age 62 and served on the court for 24 years. Conservative Chief Justice Warren Berger recommended Blackman to President Nixon. By the time he retired Blackman was most liberal justice on the court.
History also shows liberals, once appointed, never evolve into conservatives while serving on the Supreme Court.
Life is a balancing act. There is no way to see into the future and ascertain how events will shape someone or to see into their hearts to understand how they will operate once nominated. I suggest it was not their age that was the deciding factor in these Justices.
Since President Trump’s Congress can decide by simple majority on his judicial appointment he will not need to pick someone middle of the road which I believe was the case in some of the Justices you reference. That should allow for the appointment of a sincerely conservative justice.
I do believe that Roberts was/is compromised by blackmail. Having been picked by a Republican is no guarantee of conservative purity. The other Justices that you mention were not picked for conservative viewpoints although Blackmun was described as a strict constructionist the committee seemed more interested in his stock portfolio than his decisions & writings.
Sandra Day O’Connor was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Reagan on August 19, 1981, thus fulfilling his 1980 campaign promise to appoint the first woman to the highest court in the United States. Review of the confirmation hearings suggests she was a moderate Republican when chosen and continued as one during her court tenure.
Kennedy’s nomination came after Reagan’s failed nominations of Robert Bork and Douglas Ginsburg. His decisions commented on during his confirmation addressed individual liberty and the right of a State to make mistakes (Bowers). Regan chose someone that both sides could approve as just & balanced not a staunch conservative.
President Nixon April 14 named Judge Blackmun, of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, to fill the Supreme Court seat. The President’s first two nominees for that seat, Judges Haynsworth of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals and Carswell of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, both had been denied confirmation. The Senate refused Nov. 21, 1969, by a 45–55 vote, to confirm Haynsworth, and refused April 8, 45–51, to confirm Carswell.
https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal70-1292788
Not joking but, in no way endorsing either. I’d love a deeply conservative and deeply constitutional justice instead. My words were speculation, not what I want to see. Nonetheless, the GOP has some squishies and some pro-aborts in the Senate and they are going to demand something for their vote unless Trump can muster a few Democrats to back his nominee. Everyone knows what’s at stake here and if you think they are going to rubber stamp a true conservative on a 51-49 vote, you’re sorely lacking in the ways of Washington.
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