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Josh Hawley warns Trump on Supreme Court disappointments
Politico ^ | June 27, 2020 | MARIANNE LEVINE

Posted on 06/27/2020 5:24:23 PM PDT by BillyBoy

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To: BillyBoy

Barr talks a good game, but so far we are not seeing any real action.
It’s no longer just Christianity under attack, it’s America itself.

I can’t help but remember that Bill Barr was AG when Ruby Ridge happened.
Lon Horiuchi was protected by the FBI and DOJ, just like they are protecting Strzok and the others today.
Protecting the DOJ is his primary objective, not justice.


41 posted on 06/27/2020 6:20:50 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Shadow44
Anyone involved in the Federalist Society should be made a pariah as well.

Is that you, Sheldon?

https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/speeches/the-third-federalist-society

Sheldon ShiteHouse, scumbag senatrix of Rhode Island, doesn't much like the Federalist Society...

42 posted on 06/27/2020 6:20:58 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: BillyBoy

Gorsuch was a former member of the CFR-Council on Foreign Relations. Take all those types off the list, as well as any other globalist promoting organizations.

The laws regarding discrimination never entertained the idea of sexual orientation at all. The court has once again infringed on legislative responsibility.


43 posted on 06/27/2020 6:21:44 PM PDT by greeneyes ( Moderation In Pursuit of Justice is NO Virtue--LET FREEDOM RING)
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To: BillyBoy

I’m good with a new/refreshed list of candidates.

But....do NOT use the Heritage Foundation as a ‘resource’ for suggestions.


44 posted on 06/27/2020 6:22:15 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Shadow44
You have to remember that Sheldon ShiteHouse has absolutely NO problem with his Democrat Resistance "judges" marching in lockstep to block ANYTHING put forward by the Trump administration.

Nope - they're "non-partisan". Only the Federalist Society is EVIL.

Translation: "effective".

45 posted on 06/27/2020 6:24:22 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: kiryandil

The Federalist Society was created to prevent another Souter from getting on the Supreme Court.

We have Roberts and Gorsuch on the Court now and they supposedly vetted them.

Why should they continue to exist when the failed their entire raison d’etre TWICE?


46 posted on 06/27/2020 6:27:39 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: BillyBoy
Look at how hard it is to get a true conservative on the high court. Look at what happened to Clarence Thomas! It's no wonder true conservatives are ever picked for the USSC because to get there means your entire life is ripped apart in order for a liberal government to find something that they say disqualifies them.

While no one is perfect, the fact that your entire life is searched through and potential embarrassing life events are sought out. Mitch Daniels didn't want to run for further public office for that very reason!

47 posted on 06/27/2020 6:32:32 PM PDT by ducttape45 ("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
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To: cmj328; Impy; AuH2ORepublican; LS; fieldmarshaldj; campaignPete R-CT
>> Leo, a co-chairman of The Federalist Society, also pushed back on the idea that religious conservatives have been ignored.“I seriously doubt that any thoughtful religious conservative would trade the Supreme Court of today, in spite of some significant disappointing decisions, for the Supreme Court of 25, 30 or 40 years ago,” he said <<

>> Leonard Leo failed us, despite being a great guy. We need a better process. Trump’s process was an improvement, but we can’t afford screw-ups like Gorsuch. I support Hawley in this general statement. Leonard Leo needs to eat some crow and display some humility. If Leo can’t propose improvements himself, then he needs to get out of the picture and let someone else do the vetting. <<

I agree with cmj328's statement. I think the Federalist Society's "vetting", even if it well intentioned, has had a very poor track record.

I think Leo is simply wrong here claiming the current SCOTUS is "far better" than the Supreme Court we had "25, 30 years ago" and we wouldn't want to trade for the type of Supreme Court we had back then.

If we examine his argument there, going back 25-30 years was the 1990-1995 era during The Rehnquist Court. If THAT Supreme Court came forward in a time machine and had to review the cases on the current SCOTUS's docket, I have doubt they'd give us better decisions. There's no way the 1990s era Supreme Court would have seriously considered the argument that mentally ill transgendered people were what the writers of the 1964 Civil Rights Act had in mind when they wrote the law. They would have looked at any lawyer arguing such a premise like they were crazy. Even some of the "liberal" judges back then wouldn't have drunk that kool-aid, compared to now we have so-called "originalist, strict constructionist, Scalia-like" judges writing that garbage in their decisions.

1992 or so would have been the ideal year: we'd have a Rehnquist court with Scalia and Thomas on his side, could possibly swing O'Connor, Kennedy, AND Byron White to our side, and the marxist wing of the court DIDN'T have Darth Bader Ginsburg on THEIR side yet.

Sorry Leo, after thinking it over, yes, I would trust THAT Supreme Court making decisions over the current one, any day.

48 posted on 06/27/2020 6:36:56 PM PDT by BillyBoy ('States Rights' is NOT a suicide pact.)
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To: Jane Long
But....do NOT use the Heritage Foundation as a ‘resource’ for suggestions.

I think I read somewhere that the Heritage Foundation "link" to Goolag was just a Lefty smear.

I know that the Senate Judiciary DemoCommies include questions about Heritage Foundation ties in their Spanish Inquisition grillings.

They went after Neomi Rao, hero of The Battle Of Dirty Emmet's Mandamus, pretty hard for her Heritage Foundation ties.

49 posted on 06/27/2020 6:37:36 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: Zhang Fei

I think Hawley and Cruz would both make excellent Supreme Court Justices....but they are excellent Senators and I don’t want to lose them in that role. The key is to identify faithful strict constructionists and then vet them to make sure there’s nothing in their past that could derail their nomination.


50 posted on 06/27/2020 6:38:28 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: an amused spectator

WASHINGTON — Heritage Foundation President Kay C. James, writing for FoxNews.com, says the horrific and needless death of George Floyd must serve as a turning point to make Americans finally end the ugly racism that stains our nation’s history.

James, who was part of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and helped desegregate her school, writes:

“The senseless and completely unjustified killing of George Floyd – an unarmed black man – by a white police officer in Minneapolis on Monday should shock the conscience of America.

“While I understand the frustration and anger, I do not condone the violence spreading across this country in response to Floyd’s horrific killing. Rioting tearing apart Minneapolis and cities coast-to-coast will never lead to anything but more suffering. Those who are committing crimes are distracting us from the even larger group of people who are peacefully demonstrating.

“But we cannot shrug off Floyd’s killing – along with the killings of so many other black Americans throughout our nation’s history and up through today. “How many more black people must die, and how many more times will statements of sympathy have to be issued? How many times will protests have to occur? How many more committees will have to be formed until America admits that racism is still a problem in this country?

“Racism in America is a fatal wound. Every time another incident occurs we put a Band-Aid on it, but the Band-Aid keeps falling off. Band-Aids are not enough to ever stitch this country back together.”

https://www.heritage.org/press/kay-c-james-americans-must-speak-and-reject-racism


51 posted on 06/27/2020 6:41:54 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: FLT-bird; Zhang Fei
The Kavanaugh charges were made up out of whole cloth.

It almost worked [would have if Dubya the Spineless had been in the Oval Office], so they'll do it again next time - only harder.

52 posted on 06/27/2020 6:44:37 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: SharpRightTurn

“There are quite a few new Trump Appeals Court and district judges confirmed in 52 - 48 votes. Within that group are a number of VERY good and VERY young potential Supreme Court nominees.”
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Good point. The Dims probably vet the Republican nominees better than the Republicans do. And when every Dim votes against one of the nominees, you have to conclude that candidate is likely to be a very good choice.
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Britt Grant is a prime example of this group of potential nominees. She was confirmed to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in July 2018 by a vote of 52 - 46. She’s 42 years young. I research these potential candidates and she stands out. Following is a link to a speech she gave at Stanford Law School which will give you a flavor of her Judicial thinking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WKhbrghSdE


53 posted on 06/27/2020 6:46:29 PM PDT by House Atreides (It is not a HOAX but it IS CERTAINLY A PRETEXT)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I don’t know anything about Gorsuch personal life. But he comes across as possible being a queer imo.


54 posted on 06/27/2020 6:50:37 PM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: kiryandil; FLT-bird

There’s this asymmetry between the fairly easy nominations of even the most far left judges under Democratic presidents vs the tortuous, trial-by-(verbal) combat ordeals of right-leaning judges under GOP presidents. It’s as if the GOP were populated mostly by RINO’s.


55 posted on 06/27/2020 6:51:18 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Jane Long
If anything, this tells you how far gone the partisanship in The Swamp is.

Senate Judiciary Democrat fanatics are attacking people like this [who are agreeing with Pelosi and Schumer on George Kirby/Floyd Taylor, uh, George Taylor] because they're not dressed in Antifa black and pulling down Abolitionist statues.

So thanks for that.

It tells us that our opponents are beyond rabid, and that we should take that into account during the election.

56 posted on 06/27/2020 6:56:24 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: BillyBoy

Trump didn’t pick Roberts, and I think we had one or two bad decisons by Gorsuch. Big deal.


57 posted on 06/27/2020 6:57:57 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Carry me back

His wife is not guilty.


58 posted on 06/27/2020 7:00:55 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: Bonemaker

“... they will be right on everything else.”

Not really. A number of years ago they were doing some political trading between amendments with democrat senators. Lars Larson, local conservative talk show host, quit his life membership because of their shenanigans.


59 posted on 06/27/2020 7:01:10 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Zhang Fei; FLT-bird
It’s as if the GOP were populated mostly by RINO’s.

Imagine that...  face with tears of joy face with tears of joy face with tears of joy

Did you ever see the vote counts for Dubya's judges compared to Trump's judges?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_George_W._Bush

Note the number of nominees with "zero votes against".

I might have to do a "controversial judges for Bush/ClownBammy" post after I finish with the Appeals Courts posts.

We're seeing a number of ClownBammy plants rear their ugly Lefty Resistance heads lately.

60 posted on 06/27/2020 7:07:08 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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