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Timely subject as the current SCOTUS term will end. Should Thomas and Alito quit while Trump has the rats in a tizzy or should they wait another year while we still have 53 seats? Replacements are always a conservative gamble. An election year appointment could bring faux conservatives out of the closet. Another Borking may be the entertainment we may need but when?
1 posted on 05/16/2025 10:35:00 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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Since conservative judges so often disappointment it might be better to appoint one with a political background. Cruz would be great but too valuable where he is.


2 posted on 05/16/2025 10:37:29 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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“We” don’t have 53 seats. For a number of critical issues, we don’t have 50.


4 posted on 05/16/2025 10:40:09 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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Barrett has been a disaster on the level of Souter.


5 posted on 05/16/2025 10:40:35 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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Be careful, we might get another Souter.


6 posted on 05/16/2025 10:40:46 AM PDT by rdl6989
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Just in general, the 3 Trump appointees to the Court are regularly criticized on Free Republic, for having gone liberal on us, on one case or another.

Which begs the question, will Trump appoint strong conservatives who people here approve of?

We never know when Justices will retire. But I’m sure every administration has plans for, what if they need to appoint a replacement Supreme Court justice.


7 posted on 05/16/2025 10:41:06 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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They better be able to hold the Senate. It’s nearly impossible to get anything done with a simple majority and a couple of turncoats.


10 posted on 05/16/2025 10:43:32 AM PDT by JerseyDvl (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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Replacements are always a conservative gamble

The article says the SCOTUS is 6-3 conservative. I don't think so.

To say Roberts, Barrett, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch are conservative justices is like saying Collins is a MAGA senator.

13 posted on 05/16/2025 10:47:59 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
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Screw little Johnny’s Supremacist Commie Court. Americans need a place where they can go to seek justice. The judiciary has gone full illegal alien and is worthless to us. It’s a shame we have to pay the skanks and fags to screw us over.


14 posted on 05/16/2025 10:50:05 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Now that the RATS and their miggy imports own the judiciary, where do Americans go to seek justice?)
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Hope Trump never takes recommendations for the court from the establishment as is Amy Coney etc. would love to see Mike Davis on the Supreme Court, a real conservative take no prisoners pit bull. He’s seen on Real America Voice.


17 posted on 05/16/2025 10:52:31 AM PDT by kenmcg (ti hi o)
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I think it likely the Republicans gain seats in the Senate. I also think several squishy RINOs are going to be replaced by MAGA Senators.

That said, it makes sense for Thomas and Alito to retire during Trump’s term. I was sweating bullets one would pass while Biden was in office. Now the Democrats have to sweat and hope the Wide Latina doesn’t choke on a ham sandwich while Trump is in office.


23 posted on 05/16/2025 10:59:36 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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More like 2 half-conservative Justices out of 3. I don’t even count ACB as a half-conservative.


24 posted on 05/16/2025 10:59:39 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Thomas and Alito need to stay.


28 posted on 05/16/2025 11:07:08 AM PDT by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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This court is only conservative in the eyes of the hard left.


33 posted on 05/16/2025 11:22:12 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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Just don’t appoint no more women would be a good start.


34 posted on 05/16/2025 11:24:09 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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Greg Nunziata stabbed Trump in the back while helping Trump select judges. He was the chief legal counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee. He worked for both Thune and Rubio.

He now works for an Anti-Trump NGO headed by George Conway and funded by Soros.


38 posted on 05/16/2025 11:48:47 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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It gets very tiresome to hear the media talk about the 6-3 conservative court. That is total BS. The court has two conservatives, three radical leftists and four wishy washy justices (Roberts, Barrett, Kavenaugh and Gorsich) who are not conservatives at all nor are they definitely nor originalists.


42 posted on 05/16/2025 1:04:32 PM PDT by falcon99 ( )
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Well he put ACB in his last term, we know how she votes now. I don’t believe he was given good information, he was used my McConnell.


49 posted on 05/16/2025 2:50:28 PM PDT by lula (God is in control.)
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Perhaps DJT should issue an EO reducing the number to two.


55 posted on 05/16/2025 3:14:56 PM PDT by ABStrauss (I miss Rulsh!!!!!)
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Well he put ACB in his last term, we know how she votes now. I don’t believe he was given good information, he was used my McConnell.


56 posted on 05/16/2025 5:25:25 PM PDT by lula (God is in control.)
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