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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Who else should not be? Or do you care only about Cruz? That’s my point, do you get it now? You seem to not care (enough) whether we get a sorry nominee, as long as the person isn’t Cruz.
Supreme court of Cuba, after we take over and institute constitutional government there... sure, why not, absolutely.
Supreme Court of the US?
No thanks.
You and me both!
We need a return to educated but non-professional politicians.
Who writes the laws and regulations strangling small business and inflating big globalism? Lawyers.
One does not need to be a lawyer to understand the Constitution.
Disappointed in you. Not as thorough a researcher as I hoped you’d be.
No, he allowed his personal ambition to trump his interpretation of the Constitution. That kind of man can be bought.
I was on one of CRUZ’S leadership teams. The articles I’ve read about his opposition to the border wall gives me pause.
So does Trump at this point
The policy is simple. Follow the immigration laws. If a person is not compliant, send ‘em back.
“The articles I’ve read” — spoken like a follower of fake news.
The point is not what you think you know. It’s that mistake after mistake is made being okay with someone you don’t know, and hoping they’re better (and they NEVER are).
My point is, and be honest with yourself here, is what do you know for absolutely sure about Raymond Kethledge, Joan Larsen, Thomas Hardiman — not just what you think you know, but KNOW to be absolute truth. Not much. So stop feeding me BS about what you think you know about Cruz. I’m not some gullible lib.
According to Trump, the new policy is "rest easy". And then there are the Australian/Syrians refugees we don't have the stones to kick to the curb. Don't ramble on about following the law.
[So stop feeding me BS about what you think you know about Cruz. I’m not some gullible lib.]
CRUZ needs to make HIS POSITION clear.
What other SC nominee do you require this of? MAKE THAT CLEAR. Do you understand the whole of my argument?
Don’t agree with you but that is ok..
Cruz will never be a judge.
Won't be worth much if you and all of us know about it. Congratulations on your ability to swallow fake news.
They need to come up with a children’s playhouse “SCOTUS edition” for Ted.
That’s as close as he’s going to get.
LOL
It took you forever to get here dude!
I give myself a day off each week. “:^)
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You’ve obviously nothing to offer.
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