Posted on 04/29/2018 1:27:11 PM PDT by jazusamo
The New York Times never discouraged U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy from retiring during the Obama administration, but the newspaper’s editorial board is now literally begging him to stick around.
Headlined “Please Stay, Justice Kennedy,” the open letter in Saturday’s edition implored him to remain on the high court amid rumors of his retirement, saying “[y]our departure right now from the Supreme Court would have dire consequences for the country.”
Why? If Mr. Kennedy leaves, his seat would be filled by President Trump, which would mean “the court will have a locked-in right-wing majority for the rest of most of our lifetimes. They [Republicans] won’t even have to steal a seat to do it.”
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Actually, the NYT gets a half a point. Republicans did indeed put the kabash on the nomination process when Scalia passed. However, it was the democrats that didn't push hard enough, because they thought Hillary was going to win. They wanted to reward her with letting the first women president pick the next SCJ. Sucks for them.
Actually, the NYT gets a half a point. Republicans did indeed put the kabash on the nomination process when Scalia passed. However, it was the democrats that didn't push hard enough, because they thought Hillary was going to win. They wanted to reward her with letting the first women president pick the next SCJ. Sucks for them.
Well, you can't make an omelet....
If Kennedy retires and President Trump is able to place an originalist and textualist justice on the Supreme Court, the court will have an originalist and textualist majority for the first time in 70 years. For 70 years the court has been putting out decisions mostly to move the country toward the Progressive, leftist, agenda.
It is far past time they started enforcing the Constitution, instead of altering it.
Amen to that! What a change for the better for the country it would/will be.
I’m not sure how many Republicans would be willing to be seen opposing another Justice Gorsuch. Even several Democrats who face a reelection campaign this year, in States Trump won decisively, might flinch in the face of that decision.
“are they also begging sotomayor, breyer and RBG not to die?”
Or maybe they have some G2 on one of them having one foot on a banana peel and the other in a cemetery plot? My “dream” SCOTUS is one where the Fat Yenta is the only Liberal left. An 8 to 1 court and all those years left to just sit there!
Right you are! The Wise Latrina has serious Type 1 Diabetes and she has had some episodes.
“I’m not sure how many Republicans would be willing to be seen opposing another Justice Gorsuch. Even several Democrats who face a reelection campaign this year, in States Trump won decisively, might flinch in the face of that decision.”
That’s why we need one ( or more ) of them to go one way or the other, this year.
Yes, not good at all.
I’m so glad I’ve missed that wonderful part of life so far.
They carried Lenin's waxy looking corpse through the streets for years. They also get dead people to vote and collect benefits.
I totally expect them to try to reanimate Ruthy.
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