Posted on 07/02/2017 7:14:24 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Big news hiding in Nina Totenberg’s story on Justice Gorsuch voting 100% with Justice Thomas:
But it is unlikely that Kennedy will remain on the court for the full four years of the Trump presidency. While he long ago hired his law clerks for the coming term, he has not done so for the following term (beginning Oct. 2018), and has let applicants for those positions know he is considering retirement.
Kennedy’s position on the court is more than consequential. In the most hotly contested and closely divided cases, his vote often decides the outcome. With every passing day, it has become more clear that President Trump’s first Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, is probably even more conservative than the justice he replaced, Antonin Scalia.
This would put Justice Kennedy’s retirement right before the 2018 midterms, giving the Republican base reasons to turn out and keep the Senate with a Republican majority (already a strong possibility in 2018).
He’ll be able to go out on a high note, deciding the fate of partisan gerrymandering, gay rights, and who knows what else.
UPDATE: Republicans in the Senate would have a strategic decision to make: try to confirm a replacement before the elections, or use it as a tool to boost midterm turnout.
“Very few cases go the distance to SCOTUS. Keep filling vacancies.”
And bust up the Ninth Circus!
Such a beautiful sentence.
Read this:
And just look at what “Boosh” left for Obola, the worthless pr!ck!
Good. Just as long as that Schmuck Schumer can’t block them. I hope the 51 vote applies across the board. Trump is having a hard time filling vacancies now.
“Good. Just as long as that Schmuck Schumer can’t block them. I hope the 51 vote applies across the board. Trump is having a hard time filling vacancies now.”
I almost forgot, the other two “departures” I pray for are McConnell and Ryan.
Ginsberg assumed that Hillary would win and her retirement would be a congratulatory gift to Madam President.
As my old baseball coach used to ask - You know what happens when you assume?
If I were Trump, I would go for replacing immediately, figuring the Ginsberg replacement will come after midterms.
Once Kennedy is replaced with a firm conservative, thus shifting conservatives into a 5-4 majority, then Ginsberg loses her reason for hanging on, and will likely retire.
Kennedy and Ginsburg are both octogenarians. They might “plan” to stay on the Court for another few years, but who knows if Father Time might say otherwise?
Yeah me too.
Amen to that.
This entire reason alone (Gorsich and more possible picks) makes my vote for Trump worth it. He can tweet anything he wants and never get Obamacare repealed/replaced, and never build a brick in the wall and I’ll still be convinced it was the right thing to do to vote for him.
For this reason alone. So everything on top of it is gravy.
Overweight, short, unhappy dykes usually have shorter lifespans. Just sayin'
Was it Souter or Kennedy assaulted in the DC homosexual park late one evening?
Supreme Court needs a full turnover, including Roberts.
Souter
Oh, that one. Still living alone with his mother? 8<)
Where did you read that?
“Still praying for Ginsberg to leave.”
From your mouth to God’s ear.
Amazing this long after diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.
Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev would make an excellent Supreme Court Justice.
Many believe that Roberts was blackmailed over international adoption irregularities.
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