Posted on 02/09/2020 10:13:13 AM PST by weston
Judge Thomas Griffith on Thursday announced plans to retire from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, handing President Trump his third vacancy on the influential bench.
Griffith is set to retire in September, just two months ahead of the 2020 election, as politics intensify the focus on Trump’s conservative makeover of the federal courts.
The judge, a George W. Bush appointee and 15-year veteran of the D.C. Circuit, made headlines last week when he ruled against House Democratic lawmakers who sought to enforce a subpoena against a former Trump aide.
BHowever, Griffith also cast a vote against Trump when the president asked the court to reconsider a ruling that paved the way for Democrats to obtain his financial records.
The 65-year-old judge’s pending departure will mark the third vacancy for Trump to fill on the D.C. Circuit, which is sometimes referred to as “the second most important court” after the U.S. Supreme Court - where a disproportionate number of D.C. Circuit judges eventually land.
Bloomberg didn't make $60 billion by being dumb. Since the day he licked pizza off his fingers on camera, not one person has offered to shake his hand. No coronavirus for that guy. #Genius #RoleModel— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) March 5, 2020
Iran’s state-run PressTV was not terribly impressed by former Vice President Joe Biden’s comeback in the Super Tuesday Democrat primaries.
According to the Iranian media outlet, the “real winner” on Super Tuesday was incumbent Republican President Donald Trump, because he will probably get to run against the “feeble-minded, incoherent neoliberal” 77-year-old Biden instead of the relatively spry 78-year-old socialist Bernie Sanders.
VERY pretty!
I like that there are hills there.
Thread.
On multiple occasions, Joe Biden has forgot Barack Obama’s name.
"By the way, are you gonna stick with President on the following, President [awkward pause], the last guy, on this issue?"pic.twitter.com/SUUXnsJpwy— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) March 5, 2020
Ramezan Pourghassem, head of the IRGC Ground Forces counter-intelligence branch & former deputy communications minister, died in Sari’s Khomeini Hospital, while Ahmad Tuyserkani, an advisor to judiciary chief Ibrahim Raisi, has also died.#Iran#Covid_19https://t.co/YYVqZhcqXL— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) March 6, 2020
PTL
And... here’s the replay of P. Trump in Scranton, PA, on FOX NEWS!
“Catherine” asking a question. Sure Catherine, your birth certificate says your name is Catherine. Right... wink!
Trying to catch up from two days. I love the Townhall, what a great president he is!
So good things are working out for you Rusty. God listens to prayers!
I still have pain but after eight days they gave me pain pills. I have to go see an orthopedic surgeon tomorrow. Wish me luck.
Wishing you luck from right here in the desert SW- sweetiepiezer!
It’s really not that late here, but my brother has to get up very early, so in solidarity, I go to bed about as early, and get up about as early as he does, even though my summer boat captain job does not start for about another 6 weeks. Footloose and fancy free, but not for much longer...
Goodnight all.
In God we trust- all others pay cash.
great acting.
The dashing Romeo leading man is gay in real life.
The gay female cop is straight in real life.
I stopped watching it. I was more into Burn Notice which was running about the same time.
Makita Rivas doesn’t have a grasp of math.
A lot of officials dying in Iran.
You are on a roll! This one is too funny. They see the idiot here. Sad.
We lived in Michigan, freeze, freeze your butt.
Summer is so hot and humid and lots of mosquitos.
What part are you looking at?
Good luck, and prayers. For your hubby and puppy too.
I wondered if they set Catherine up so Trump would say something about his/her sex.
At dinner the other night my son said he too was watching Burn Notice then too.
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