Posted on 06/30/2018 5:33:49 AM PDT by GonzoII
Michael Brendan Dougherty has some advice for President Trump that I think is worth repeating, in regards to replacing Justice Anthony Kennedy this fall: Appoint Amy Coney Barrett, Trump's recent addition to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The facts of Barrett’s life — that she is a mother of seven children, and that when she speaks about her Catholic faith, she speaks about God as if she really believes in His existence — will provoke nasty and bigoted statements from Democratic senators and liberal media personalities. Again...It won’t just be her faith. In 2012, a columnist chastised two Republican presidential candidates for their “smug fecundity.” For Barrett, the comments on the number of children she has are likely to be much worse. The fact is that women nominated for positions of authority often inspire hysterical and self-defeating reactions in those who oppose them.
I agree. For one thing, Barrett is only 46 years old and could easily serve on the court until 2060. It also doesn't hurt to put a conservative woman on the court. But in addition, this would be an especially shrewd move ahead of the midterm elections.
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In his most recent successful run for Texas’s elected Supreme Court, Willett won an endorsement from Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, a group more strident than the NRA. In a summer editorial in the Tyler Morning Telegraph that blasted an appeals court ruling that Americans don’t have the right to carry concealed guns, the newspaper said Willett would be an “excellent choice” to decide such questions on the Supreme Court.
I have an aunt with 10 children aged 27 to 10 years old who’s a rabid pro-abortion self proclaimed Orthodox Catholic who insists on going to mass daily.
Don Willett, even. I keep spelling his last name wrong.
Expecting a vicious nomination fight, she would be the perfect foil for the metoo hypocrytes. Let’s see the dimocrats calling her a c*nt and wh*re. They can’t help themselves!
Maybe it just comes across this way online, but you seem unnecessarily angry over this discussion. I get your point. You’re talking about the underlying qualities and qualifications that we want in a Supreme Court Justice. I’m sure that we’re on the same page with respect to those. I’m talking about political shrewdness of picking someone who will be confirmed. Scalia was confirmed 98-0. He was no less conservative than Bob Bork or Clarence Thomas, so why wasn’t he demonized? Being the first Italian-American on the SCOTUS wasn’t why he was a great Justice, but did it help him sail through confirmation? Absolutely. I don’t know your age, but I remember well how excited Italian-American organizations were at the time and how much the appointment confirmed a trend of Italian-Americans, like most of the white middle class, shifting allegiance to the GOP.
That’s a pretty ridiculous thing to say.
For me Trump picking Amy is not about “feminism”.
The Left HATES for Conservative presidents to nominate women or “minorities” to high places. They, the Left, is (by their political agenda) supposed to own the demographic categories, and when a Conservative president naems a Conservative woman or “minority” person, the Left goes nuts.
That will be fantastic for the mid term elections in November. The hypocrites on the Left all up in arms against a “woman”. Their painting her as a “traitor” will help excite the Conservative voters as well.
Later, Trump can stick it to them again by NOT naming a woman to replace Ginsberg, destroying the idea that some supremene court seats are “reserved” for some demographic.
No it does not.
Attends an Episcopal “Church”....hhhhmmmmm
If she's a "Strict Constructionist and Constitutional Originalist", which we hope, and the aforementioned "sexual reference" enhances her chances of being confirmed what's the problem?
As far as I can tell from what's available online, this woman has never heard of the 2A. Nothing.
I might be concerned over nothing, but that's just too big a gamble for me.
I'm sure that she's just dandy on most things, but I don't want a mother of 7 "evolving" on my gun rights in a decade or two.
DJT needs to take a good look at Britt Grant if he's adamant about filling this seat with a female.
From what I've read she's the real deal in all of the big issues and she's six years younger than Barrett to boot.
Exactly my view. This isn't an election for home-coming queen. We are picking someone whose opinions will affect all of our lives for generations and need experienced judges with a sound record of well-reasoned constitutionally based jurisprudence.
If I'm "angry" about anything it's the identity politics b.s. getting played out on numerous threads here on FR.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Some people thought David Souter was a "shrewd" pick. How'd he turn out?
I honestly don't think PDJT needs to be "shrewd" here at all. Republicans own the House & Senate. The Senate's job is "advise and consent" when it comes to the USSC. PDJT should appoint a strict constructionist and originalist to the court, any form of identity politics that gets played here to simply "piss off the left" which I think is what some what to do more than anything else by my reading of their posts across numerous threads accomplishes NOTHING.
The left is going to be pissed off no matter what. That in my view means it's the exact right time to appoint someone like Scalia or Thomas to the court. Identity politics be damn'ed.
Heck, if we follow the "logic" of the left and Barry Obama's own words, "I won, that's why." President Trump won, therefore he's entitled just like Obama was to have his USSC pick confirmed.
Funny how the left's own words and actions come back to bite them and now's the time to let their words bite them.
We have too many Catholics on the court already.
Still identity politics, that's the problem. Her being a woman, the number of children she has, her being an Orthodox Catholic, yadda, yadda, yadda has NOTHING to do with the qualifications of a United States Supreme Court Justice. Period. Full Stop.
We’ve not had nominees before based on their surviving confirmation questioning. And it is probably presumed that they will hold up if they are men.
Perhaps seen as exceptional because a woman is supposed to break into tears or something?
But also a good reminder that her being a female would not smooth her confirmation at this level—it would only make her opponents work overtime, as they die with Clarence Thomas.
You bring up a good point. Seven kids are seven potential vulnerabilities she would have to worry about. There’s strong suspicion that Obama got to Roberts through his kids possibly irregular adoption.
Adding to my stream of thought here:
Some people thought Roberts was a shrewd pick. How'd he turn out? He didn't. He turned on Conservatives, broke with the role of the USSC and legislated from the bench along with the courts Liberals and shoved Obamacare down the country's throat.
Some people thought Kennedy was a shrewd pick. He sided with the liberals on the court how many times? Shoved gay marriage down the country's throat while he was at it too.
Some people thought Sandra Day O'Connor was a shrewd pick as the USSC's first female justice. She sided with the courts liberals on every Roe v. Wade challenge keeping abortion the law of the land and she was demonstrably pro-abortion. How'd she work out?
All I'm saying here is these "shrewd"choices people advocate for end up biting us in the ass.
No more "shrewd" choices. Strict Constructionists and Originalists ONLY.
“Being a Catholic is she obligated to follow the pope’s ideas on immigration?”
Many American Catholics are completely fed up with the phony pope and don’t look up to him.
Thomas is Catholic and he voted to uphold the travel ban. I’ll bet that she’s of the American Catholic persuasion and will not strictly follow the Vatican, especially this Pope.
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