Posted on 06/27/2020 5:24:23 PM PDT by 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.
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...
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.
I’m good with a new/refreshed list of candidates.
But....do NOT use the Heritage Foundation as a ‘resource’ for suggestions.
Nope - they're "non-partisan". Only the Federalist Society is EVIL.
Translation: "effective".
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?
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!
>> Leonard Leo failed us, despite being a great guy. We need a better process. Trumps process was an improvement, but we cant 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 cant 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.
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.
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.
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 nations 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 Floyds 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 Floyds killing along with the killings of so many other black Americans throughout our nations 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
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.
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. Shes 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
I don’t know anything about Gorsuch personal life. But he comes across as possible being a queer imo.
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.
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.
Trump didn’t pick Roberts, and I think we had one or two bad decisons by Gorsuch. Big deal.
His wife is not guilty.
“... 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.
Imagine that...
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.
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