How many rows of teeth does this guy have?
Posted on 12/07/2016 6:50:06 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Since his stunning election victory two weeks ago, Donald Trump has been busy making a series of controversial appointments. First came alt-right media baron Steve Bannon as chief strategist and counselor and then Jeff Sessions, who was once denied a federal judgeship due to accusations that he made racially insensitive comments, as attorney general.
This week, the president-elect announced his secretary of education will be billionaire philanthropist Betsy DeVos, a school-choice proponent some educators fear could dismantle public education.
His most anticipated pick, though, is yet to come. On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly brought up the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. He went as far as to say that because of it, Republicans who didn't like him would have to vote for him anyway. "Have no choice, sorry, sorry, sorry," he said at a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Trump in late September issued a "definitive" list of 21 potential nominees. His campaign said they were selected based on constitutional principles, with input from conservative policy groups including the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation. Two of the picks hail from Florida, which has never had a native on the high court.
The two potential nominees are state Supreme Court Justice Charles Canady and Federico Moreno, a judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Trump has pledged to appoint a Scalia-like justice who opposes Roe v. Wade. Canady, a religious Republican who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001, has a clear record on the issue. He coined the term "partial-birth abortion" and in 1995 introduced a bill to ban the practice.
“The only difference between the partial-birth abortion and homicide is a mere three inches,” he claimed. "Most partial-birth abortions are performed on the healthy children of healthy mothers."
The Yale Law School graduate and Lakeland native was one of the managers of Bill Clinton's impeachment trial in 1998. After leaving the House, he served as general counsel for then-Gov. Jeb Bush. Canady was appointed to the state Supreme Court in 2008 by then-Gov. Charlie Crist.
Recently, the now-62-year-old was the lone dissenter on the court's decision that the death penalty can be handed down only by a unanimous jury.
Moreno, who is Catholic, graduated from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Miami School of Law. He worked in the Public Defender's Office before Gov. Bob Graham appointed him in 1986 as a Miami-Dade County Court judge. President George H.W. Bush nominated him to his current position in 1990.
In his years on the bench, the now-64-year-old has ordered the government to pay nearly a million dollars to six innocent people tortured in a U.S.-led drug sting in Honduras and ruled that the United States erred in returning 15 Cuban refugees who were stranded on a bridge in the Keys.
The Venezuelan-born judge was one of the first Hispanics appointed to the federal bench in South Florida. In 2005, the Cuban American Bar Association urged then-President George W. Bush to appoint the first Hispanic justice and included Moreno's name on its list of suggestions.
"Judge Moreno would be the ideal replacement for Justice Scalia," said attorney David Oscar Markus, who wrote about the potential pick on his Southern District of Florida blog. "He loves to engage lawyers from the bench, is practical, and incredibly smart. He is almost never reversed by the appellate courts, as I have found out the hard way."
That’s ok. I agree. I was Trump day one. I fought the Cruzers— hard!! But this is the Scalia Seat. It is a special place on that Court. No conservative ever had more Courage and intellectual ability than Cruz. He will never betray a conservative constitutional principal for 35 years!!!
The age thing was my first concern. 62 and 64 is just too old. We need conservative Justices who will be on the court for 20/30 years.
Tho, in saying hat, I am always reminded of the SC Senate race years ago where Strom Thurmond’s opponent harped on Thurmond’s age only to die at age 48, while Thurmond lived a full 100 years of which he served 48 in the Senate. So ya never know!
LOL....oh pick something better! :-)
He has a LOUSY "legal mind", has NO courage at all, and if you really believe that BOVINE EXCREMENT, that there's nobody better for Scalia's seat...your just out of your mind!
WAKE UP, LOOK AT REALITY, AND STOP WITH THIS UTTERLY STUPID, PUERILE, UNEDUCATED, PROPAGANDIST, UNTRUE CRAP!
Thank you for your response Wendle. Of the seven cases Ted plead before the SCOTUS, he won two outright.
Do you know what bothers me about his ability to reason wisely?
He blamed the campaign rally violence on Trump, rather than the violent protesters, and the people who were paying the protesters.
We later found out that the Clinton team put people at those sites to instigate violence. Soros was paying protesters too.
The excuse was, that Trump incited violence at his rallies. That simply wasn’t true at all. He urged his people in almost all instances to be gentle with the protesters inside, only picking on one guy because he became combative with people and security.
So I have very little confidence in Ted’s judgement.
Think about how non-violent our people were in response to violence.
If anyone was inciting, it was the Clinton/Soros camp.
This didn’t occur to Ted.
So no, I don’t want him anywhere near making decisions that will rule our nation for decades.
If he stayed true to form, he’d back something against Conservatives on general principles. That’s what he did there.
Yeah, yeah....just like Roberts ( Cruz’s BFF ), would “save us all from OBAMACARE. *SPIT*
No way you can know that. Scalia made a pretty dumb decision when he took incitement to riot and renamed it free speech. (Flag burning)
“:^)
I had forgotten his BFF Roberts.
Yep, great judgement.
Mike Lee is not on the list. But I believe his brother is.
Roberts is a POS; his BFF, twee Teddykins is WORSE!
Put Pam Bondi in there. She would be on the court for 40 or more years!
The next 40 years? You expect Roberts to be there until the ripe old age of 101?
LOL
I knew Ted was playing fast and loose after reading his memos to Bush in 1999, where he helped Bush come up with talking points to avoid deportation of illegals.
Another issue was his claim that he only proposed the increase to 500% of the current H1-B visas as an arguing point. Two years and more down the road, he was still pushing it. He had to abandon that in the middle of the campaign.
He was lying.
Ted wasn’t who he said he was.
He also lied about his strength in the South, claiming the Bible belt was in his hip pocket. He didn’t get one of those states.
So Ted simply wasn’t the Ted his supporters thought he was.
Then on the issue of judgement, I’ve got two more words for folks.
Glenn Beck.
No one much over 50.....it’s too important.
No...Judge Jeanine!
And the whole Beck tied at the hip with Teddykins, not to mention Teddy's insane father, and the VERY peculiar, really screwed family, matters a LOT to me!
YIKES!
It is strange isn’t it.
And folks thought Mitten’s beliefs were strange.
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