Posted on 04/22/2017 10:52:23 AM PDT by Starman417
While the chattering class was lamenting the delay on ObamaCare repeal and replace and promised tax reform, they ignored perhaps the most importance consequence of President Trump’s election, a major accomplishment in his first 100 days, the transformation of the Supreme Court into a conservative and constitutional bastion of freedom.
The appointment and confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch has already borne fruit as he cast the deciding vote allowing the execution of multiple Arkansas death row inmates to proceed. As Bloomberg Politics reported:
Justice Neil Gorsuch took his first major action on the U.S. Supreme Court by casting the deciding vote to let Arkansas begin executing a group of death-row inmates.No doubt this marks the beginning of the end for liberal activism and legislating from the bench in the nation’s federal courts, a trend that may accelerate with the possibility of an imminent vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court as hinted by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, at a National Association of Manufacturers event on Tuesday:In a series of orders Thursday night, the high court cleared the state to execute Ledell Lee, one of eight convicted murderers that Arkansas has been trying to put to death before one of its lethal-injection drugs expires at the end of the month. Arkansas executed Lee minutes after the court rejected the last of his requests.
During a visit to Muscatine Tuesday morning, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he expects a Supreme Court Justice resignation within the year.It would seem that “rumored” vacancy might be “swing-vote” Justice Anthony Kennedy, for whom Gorsuch once clerked. As reported by HotAir.com:"I would expect a resignation this summer," he said.
An upcoming resignation has been "rumored," he said, but he did not name a justice. The question was posed to him during a question-and-answer session at Kent Corporation headquarters, by Kent employees, National Association of Manufacturers members and elected officials at Kent Corporation headquarters.
A person would likely be nominated from the same list from which recently appointed Justice Neil Gorsuch was chosen, Grassley said, most of whom he said are well-qualified.
For the past few weeks, rumors have swirled around Washington that swing-vote Justice Anthony Kennedy wants to hang up his robe and ride off into the sunset. He hasn’t interviewed prospective clerks for the next session, and has moved up his traditional five-year summer reunions for past clerks up a year. The New York Times speculated at the end of January that Donald Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch was intended in part to signal to Kennedy that Trump would replace him with a serious jurist.During the transition, among the many somewhat surprising visitors to Trump Tower was Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a former Trump presidential rival with whom unpleasant commentaries were exchanged. Politics does indeed make strange bedfellows and if we have seen anything since November 8 it is that President Trump has proven more magnanimous and less vindictive than both his political opponents and media critics have painted him.
Gorsuch was on the list or 21 names Trump had announced for Supreme Court consideration, a list that made most conservatives ecstatic. Ted Cruz’s name was not, although Cruz ally was on Trump’s short list for SCOTUS Cruz would make a great second pick – a constitutional originalist in the Scalia mode who actually worked with Scalia to save the Second Amendment..
The broad swath of GOP control at all levels of government presents a huge opportunity to, as Trump promised, to drain the swamp. Already we have a very real prospect of repealing and replacing ObamaCare, of enacting pro-growth tax reform, rebuilding the military, securing our borders, and, yes, putting the Supreme Court on the right path for generations.
The prospect of restoring and protecting religious liberty and the Second Amendment and reigning in the regulatory excesses of federal agencies is at hand. Ted Cruz, who campaigned with Vice President-elect Mike Pence for Trump in Iowa, has pledged to work with Trump on Supreme Court appointments, tweeting after their meeting:
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Cruz has never failed to make his very solid positions abundantly clear.
That’s why he has so many jerks for enemies.
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This forum has become Troll Heaven.
Especially over the last year.
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Still storing your mouth in the septic tank, I see.
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What, me get in there with Ted? Nope...
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Cruz is way too important as council to be wasted as a judge.
Without his council before the courts, our freedoms would not even have survived Bush.
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Here’s Sparky’s most recent foot in mouth event.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3545931/posts
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You’re in there with Obama and Hitlery.
Its a good fit too.
The absurdity drips from your chin.
I pegged Ted for exactly who he is. Too bad you can’t grow up to see it.
Here, this is Mr. Brilliant’s latest foot in mouth comment.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3545931/posts
In case you want to see the truth again...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3546390/posts?page=97#97
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His analysis is solid.
The deep state coup against Trump went way too smoothly. He lacked competent and reliable advice. All his top choices are Goldman stooges.
He’s already in the boat with them on Israel and the UN.
Probably won’t be Warren; these things come and go rather quickly, but they have time to do their dirty work.
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Trump has been busy implementing Conservative policy.
Ted has been busy carping.
You are busy outing yourself for being out of touch with reality.
I’ll stick with Trump. You can stick with Warren’s best bud.
I was thinking he should pick Megyn Kelly, she has a law degree.
I doubt that the SC is the lifetime goal, of Sen. Cruz.
He and Trump have probably discussed matters, over their many meatloaf dinners.
He's campaigning for reelection - lines always get fuzzy during such endeavors.
No I sent you a private reply. I replied that we could agree to disagree. I don’t like starting the Cruz thing on this site; it was very divisive.
I have not changed my mind. I have done my research but I do not need to convince anyone else nor could I convince some of Ted’s base no matter how clear the evidence. I will not disturb the fellowship of the board trying to teach the blind to see.
Many of the ardent Cruz supporters have the same worries about the Country and the same hopes for her. Like relatives at the Thanksgiving table I try to remember the things we share not those that would divide us.
Just wait until the floodgates are opened on opposition research on Tedly Cruz.
We never got the scoop because the information wasn’t needed to take him down - att.
Even the rest of the GOP gossip about what a slime bucket he is, and he has NO FRIENDS.
He may think he can get away with being a serial adulterer, and whatever baggage he carries (besides being publicly unlikeable) but whoever has the goods has Ted in their bag.
As a USSC Justice he wont be able to hide behind the skirts of Carly Fiorina, his mother, and his unnervingly ambitious neurotic scripted Stepford wife.
“Soiled that nest”? What are you talking about?
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Ted Cruz has been busy all of his life protecting our freedom by defeating our enemies in court.
One of only three honest men in government.
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There is no dirt on Cruz to find.
If there were, Trump’s pals wouldn’t have had to manufacture the false crap that the MSM were so glad to run with.
Your fetid false allegations show what you’re made of.
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What reply?
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