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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told reporters on Monday that Democrats’ approach to the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett showed that they wanted a “politician” on the bench, not a judge. Democrats, he said, think “all justices are politicians, and so they want a politician that’ll vote for their cases.” Paul spoke after the opening round of statements on the Senate Judiciary Committee on day one of Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings. They had focused their statements in the confirmation hearing on policy questions like Obamacare, he said. “instead of whether of not a justice will adhere to the law.” Republicans,...

Many women—and some men—feel a sense of obligation to vote for the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris ticket and thereby help a woman achieve the presidency. Today, I make the case that we must wait—out of respect for all little girls in America who need and deserve a more authentic role model as the first female president of the United States.  Technically, Harris is running for vice president. However, both Biden and Harris have referred to themselves as the aspiring “Harris administration.” We can take their word for it: the ultimate plan is for Harris to take the reins. Is she worthy...

CNN portrays itself as a news organization. And says that at her confirmation hearings, Amy Coney Barrett will "portray" herself as a wife, mother, and in line with Antonin Scalia.The difference is that ACB is a wife, mother, and in line with Antonin Scalia . . . but CNN is not a news organization. That CNN is nothing more than a thinly-disguised propaganda arm of the Democrats was on double display during this morning's New Day. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough asked Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer on Monday why the Democrats couldn’t complete the work of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) and “add a couple of justices” to the Supreme Court of the United States. “Why can’t Democrats Constitutionally finish what FDR started back over 80 years ago and add a couple of justices in response to Republican radicalism?” Scarborough asked Schumer on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Roosevelt threatened to enlarge the Supreme Court when the body initially opposed his New Deal legislation. “It’s Constitutional. And by [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell’s standard, you would be...

As the confirmation hearing for Amy Coney Barrett’s appointment commences we are girding ourselves to be inundated with plenty of mewling and complaining from Democrats and the press. There will be constant complaints about the inappropriateness of the process, about how unethical the voting will be, and why it is wrong to make an appointment in an election year. Most of this will be delivered without much in the way of historical context. The first objection we heard regarded how close to an election Ruth Bader Ginsberg had passed away. Many were saying that President Trump should not nominate an...

Twenty-four of the country’s 28 GOP governors are backing the Senate confirmation of White House nominee Amy Coney Barrett – with President Trump critics Govs. Charles Baker and Larry Hogan among those not in support. Baker is the governor of Massachusetts, and Hogan is the governor of Maryland. The two other GOP governors who did not sign the letter are Chris Sununu of New Hampshire and Phil Scott of Vermont.

It's time to face a hard truth about the Supreme Court fight that begins this week. There is no secret trick to stopping President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans from jamming through Judge Amy Coney Barrett as a replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. There is no last-minute magic parliamentary maneuver that Minority Leader Chuck Schumer can use to stop the process. The rules allow him to slow it down a little, but that's it. And there's no argument that's going to be persuasive enough to shame Senate Republicans to look within themselves and do the right thing. No, the...

Democrats seem to want to decide for everyone what the word "long" means pertaining to "long established" precedent even though many decisions from SCOTUS haven't been decided for a long time, secondly they more often than not apply a thinly-veiled religious litmus test, and third they are often openly hostile towards Christianity/Catholicism, but not other religions, thus revealing their bigotry.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, will tell the Senate Judiciary Committee on Oct. 12 that the Supreme Court shouldn’t try to make policy. “I have been nominated to fill Justice Ginsburg’s seat, but no one will ever take her place,” Barrett writes in her remarks, which she is expected to present to the committee. Her remarks will present her legal philosophy and will stress that she is a proponent of the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s legal theories. Barrett previously was a legal clerk for Scalia, who died in 2016. “It was the content...

It may have something to do with the value the two minority faiths place on higher education and the religions’ openness to intellectual inquiry, said John Fea, professor of American history at Messiah College. “Unlike evangelicals who base their entire worldview on the teachings of the Bible, Catholics and Jews seem much more open to engaging in larger principles that will affect not only their own community, but the common good of the republic or of a nation beyond the needs of their particular religious tradition," Fea said. For most of America’s history, the court was composed almost entirely of...

Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Chris Coons said on Sunday that the Senate moving to confirm President Trump's Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett "constitutes court-packing," and called the nominee's views "disqualifying." Coons, D-Del., made the comments during an interview with "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace. Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., also spoke with Wallace Sunday. "I'm going to be laying out the ways in which Judge Barrett's views ... are not just extreme, they're disqualifying," Coons said of Democrats' strategy for Barrett's hearings. "It constitutes court-packing." Court-packing's traditional definition is expanding the Supreme Court by law and then confirming...

Judge will praise her mentor, the late Justice Antonin Scalia, and emphasize her belief that it is not the job of the Supreme Court to create policy in the text of her opening statement obtained by Fox News. "Courts have a vital responsibility to enforce the rule of law, which is critical to a free society," Barrett's opening statement reads. "But courts are not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in our public life. The policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made by the political branches elected by and accountable to the People." Barrett...

Judge Amy Coney Barrett initially failed to disclose two talks she gave in 2013 hosted by two anti-abortion student groups on paperwork provided to the Senate ahead of her confirmation hearing to become the next Supreme Court justice. Barrett, President Donald Trump's nominee to succeed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, gave the talks in 2013 in her capacity as a law professor at the University of Notre Dame. The seminar was co-sponsored by the school's Right to Life club and constitutional studies minor, and the lecture was held by the law school's Jus Vitae club. Late on Friday night, hours after...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett served as a “handmaid,” the term then used for high-ranking female leaders in the People of Praise religious community, an old directory for the group's members shows. Barrett has thus far refused to discuss her membership in the Christian organization, which opposes abortion and, according to former members, holds that men are divinely ordained as the “head” of both the family and faith, while it is the duty of wives to submit to them. Portions of two People of Praise directory pages for the South Bend, Indiana, branch were shared with...

Now that Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court is official, leftists everywhere are casting aspersions at the wall to see what sticks. A few early favorites include condemning her for adopting children or expressing outrage that Republicans would push for a nomination when Democrats don’t control the outcome.The most interesting smear, however, regards feminine submission — an apparent teaching of Barrett’s faith group, People of Praise. It’s silly to suggest that submission holds back women when your example is being considered for one of the highest offices in the United States. But silly or not, it does...

1,513 alumni of Rhodes College in Nashville, Tennessee signed a letter opposing Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court. As you probably guessed, it’s about abortion. Past nominations of conservative judges also brought out the same vitriol so this is now expected behavior.Amy Coney Barrett graduated magna cum laude in 1994, was a member of the Honor Council, and named to the Student Hall of Fame. Rhodes College is a small private liberal arts college historically affiliated with the Presbyterian Church. The student population is about 2,000. The Princeton Review reports that the college is “academically very...

With President TrumpÂ’s hospitalization due to the China Virus, along with virtually his entire top echelon of advisors who tested positive (sans Mike Pence), Democrats see an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, metaphorically speaking. First, they get Trump off the campaign trail, whereby every single metric except polling he is leading, and second, they see an opportunity to stall the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett past the election date.FoxÂ’s Neil Cavuto was already touting the 25th Amendment to remove Trump (a tactic that, of course, failed Rod Rosenstein, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and the coup...

When Amy Coney Barrett came before that microphone in the Rose Garden to make her official introduction to the wider public, you knew you were getting a different sort of Supreme Court nominee. This wasn’t polished civics instructor Neil Gorsuch or earnest political operator Brett Kavanaugh. Here was a joyous, American-as-apple-pie judge next door. “ I love the United States, and I love the United States Constitution,” she said on that Saturday afternoon at the White House. “I am truly humbled by the prospect of serving on the Supreme Court.” What a breath of fresh air amid the 2020 miasma,...

It’s not been a good 24 hours for Republicans. First, Donald Trump tweeted he had tested positive for COVID-19. Then, in rapid succession, several other White House aides reported positive tests, including Kellyanne Conway and campaign manager Bill Stepien. If that weren’t bad enough, three Republican senators have reported positive coronavirus tests in the last 24 hours, with the latest being Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson. Previously, North Carolina’s Thom Tillis and Utah’s Mike Lee also tested positive. All of them will go into quarantine for at least two weeks.What does that do to the timeline to confirm Amy Coney Barrett...