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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While I think Cruz would make a fine justice, the question then becomes equally pressing: who will be the *third* justice?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is close to pegging out soon. She has had both colon and pancreatic (caught early) cancer, iron deficiency, and has had a stent placed in her right coronary artery.
All true. And what attracted me to originally. support him. But he was ineligible, too, and still ran. Hypocritical. ( and his attacks on Mr Trump even AFTER DJT nailed down the. nomination —— not good). I will trust president Trump to select good honest nominees.
Cruz haters will never let it happen
“Felix Frankfurter, who was born in Vienna, Austria, was the most famous”
Thanks for the info. I never realized that Frankfurter was a Wiener.
Cruz haters are just like Trump haters.
Would rather eat a turd than admit they were wrong.
It will be Pryor. And watching Schumer go into convulsions will be both alarming and hilarious. :)
>>way worse than Bork received.
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I will never forgive my then senator, Arlan Specter the Defector, who borked Bork.
What a powerfully strong Supreme Court Justice Judge Bork would have been....a real advocate for strict construction of the Constitution....a real Scalia-type judge.
That Specter burns in hell is comforting, but no consolation for the destruction Specter’s treason wrought upon our nation. Burn in h@ll, Arlan.
The point you made however was about his Constitutional knowledge and your lack of faith that he would adhere to its principles - not that you disagreed with his electability based on his citizenship origins. Therefore, I was confused how you could associate one with the other.
https://youtu.be/zwIHJhtTSLg Go Ted!!!
That looks like a New York “Bless Your Heart” smile
PS I was a big Cruz supporter back in the day, now not so much
Cruz was my guy 100% until I watched Trump come down the escalator and piss off everybody.
Then after Iowa, I was fully committed to Trump.
Instincts validated.
Did you require this of Neil Gorsuch? Any other potential Justice? Did you ever require this of any justice nominee?
Lot of misinformation and lack of wisdom in your post. You win the double.
I just wish he'd go away. I once donated money to his campaign and have regretted it ever since.
What an awful character in our nation's long running political soap opera.
I can only hope viewers will not renew or renegotiate his contract whenever it comes up again.
If CRUZ is against the wall, his name doesn’t need to be in the SUPREME COURT short list.
Would love to be able to agree with you: “Sen Cruz, an excellent choice”. However at this time after what has been learned about the man, he is simply not trusted. When push comes to shove, he would ignore our Constitution and legislate from the bench just as any other judge searching for a buyer. Knowing the Constitution, he ignored the words written and attempted to run for President. How does this make him a worthy choice?
JM2CW
Eh, that would be a Vienna sausage. :-)
[Clay Shaw]
Raymond Shaw - Manchurian Candidate 2004
Ever notice how much Meryl Streep resembles Hillary Clinton in that movie?
I’m sure the lib Streep would deny it. It was absolutely Hillary Clinton.
ScoC maybe
This list is definitive and I will choose only from it in picking future Justices of the United States Supreme Court. I would like to thank the Federalist Society, The Heritage Foundation and the many other individuals who helped in composing this list of twenty-one highly respected people who are the kind of scholars that we need to preserve the very core of our country, and make it greater than ever before.”
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