Posted on 01/03/2017 2:51:05 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
Donald Trump has narrowed his short list for his first Supreme Court pick down to roughly a half-dozen finalists but the president-elect and his top advisers are already thinking about a second selection, as they seek to quickly remodel the high court with a reliably conservative bent.
Trump’s team wants to make filling the seat held by the late Justice Antonin Scalia one of the earliest acts of his presidency, according to multiple transition officials, in hopes of scoring an energizing and unifying victory for the conservative movement.
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. And as Trump weighs perhaps the most enduring personnel decision he’ll make as president-elect — filing one of only nine lifetime seats on the high court — he has sought input from an array of friends, former rivals, and legal and TV personalities.
“He clearly understands he may have a chance to define the court for a generation or more and he is taking it very seriously,” said former Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Trump confidante.
While Scalia’s seat is the only current opening, Trump’s advisers are plotting how to fill that vacancy in tandem with the next one — a slot if vacated by a liberal justice like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 83, or swing-vote Justice Anthony Kennedy, 80, could far more dramatically move the court’s political center of gravity to the right.
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Thats what I would like to see.The left would go even crazier than they already are.
Ted Cruz and Mark Levin?
But not on the court.
I want people we can trust.
We can’t trust either of these two, not seriously trust them.
“Politico - all I needed to read.”
haha! me too.
How about a non-lawyer? I’ve had enough of lawyer idiocy.
Thanks.
Most definitely “He.”
I kinda agree with the article,
in so far as,
the tougher conservative is best slotted
to replace Scalia.
how about Clarence Thomas getting two votes
when Ruth Buzzy leaves the Court?
I agree that they are not qualified due to ignorance of the Constitution as it was written. Look forward to the day we hear no more about Cruz.
Me three.
Cruz is okay. Levin is too old and with a heart condition. I want younger conservatives (40's) so they can be on the court for 30+ years.
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You’re a stupendous idiot.
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We don’t need to trust them. Nor like them. We just need to be absolutely sure they are true conservatives.
Ted Cruz is a true conservative.
Remember ffing Bush wanted to put his idiot relative on the SCOTUS.
Whereas Trump takes the appointment seriously.
PUBLIC losers vs PRIVATE success
You speak for me!
That is why We The People elected Donald Trump!
There’s a glue factory that’s been waiting for Ruth BG.
Yeah...they specialize in using just the horse’s a*s.
How old is JRB?
How old is JRB?
I would be all right with USSC having “final word on all things Constitutional” only if we were working with a reasonable definition of “cases arising under this Constitution” AND we had a Congress willing to exercise its power of regulating appellate jurisdiction.
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