McConnell was hurt deeply by Reid eliminating the filibuster and this is his payback.
If RINOs like Collins and Murkowski don't fall in line, then they need to be stripped of their committee rankings or leaderships and no pork should go to their states.
Nominate him, confirm him, tell the Dems to go to Hell, and he/she will be waiting in the wings right on August 1st to take over.
The five finalists according to Bloomberg as disseminated to other outlets of the left are a black hole on the Second Amendment and the other most important issues regarding freedoms. They’re on the list because of their dedication to more power and immunities for big corporations, police unions, etc.
Don Willett is the only one that I’ve found who has a record of opinions on those issues along with a history of being a constitutionalist.
“...following a methodical course in hopes of avoiding the lurching disorder that [the left claims] so often engulfs his White House”
Sounds like more wishful thinking from the left. Here’s more...
“...in part because he has delegated and outsourced much of the spadework [as if BO ever did ANY of his own work throughout his so-called career, including the WH].”
It’s fun to watch the Left flapdoodle over the idea that this Justice pick will somehow enable more of what they assert are Trump abuses of power because if he really does pick the sort of people he says he will they would be active impediments to abuses of power by Trump.
And that includes the abuses of power the Left has come to depend on ... which is what they are really nattering about.
President Trump is not only NOT abusing power they way they think he should do but if he gets his way they’ll not be able to as well going forward either ... and that just will not do!
“following a methodical course in hopes of avoiding the lurching disorder that so often engulfs his White House ... he has left himself little room for improvisation - in part because he has delegated and outsourced much of the spadework.”
right. white house is chaotic and the only reason Trump was successful with SCOTUS appointments is because because others took over and did all the work ...
no bias here ...
It's time to END the east coast elitist monopoly; the club where everyone is taught by the same liberal professors.
We need someone from the American HEARTLAND.
Pro Constitution and Pro Life!!
Could be as many as 4.
Hopefully many more given the left’s latest “idea”:
Hot New Lefty Idea: Let’s Pack the Court with Liberals as Soon as Democrats are Back in Power.
“...I haven’t heard this one yet from any big-name Democrats but give it time. With presidential primaries approaching, the left’s dumbest, most destructive ideas will inevitably migrate up the food chain. (“Abolish ICE!”) In modern American politics, turds float.
There’s been plenty of buzz about it online, where so many of those turds originate, since Kennedy’s announcement. Google “pack the court” and the hits will start rolling in — Vice, HuffPost, Jacobin, plus a smattering of lesser-known sites. The plan has some “respectable” support too, of course. Whenever a truly terrible idea is swirling among progressives, there’s always an academic somewhere willing to defend it.
...calling for a 15-seat Court instead of the 11-seater commonly being recommended this week. If you’re going to nuke what little is left of comity in Supreme Court nominations by embracing one of the few ideas FDR ever supported that was toxically unpopular even in his own time, might as well think big.
How moronic do you have to be to float court packing and try to build a philosophical case for it when the other side is in power.
Thanks to the filibuster, the bill would fail. But the dilemma for red-state Democrats would remain if Court-packing was still a thing when the next Democratic president took power. How do you support that and hold your Senate seat when a majority of your constituents vote Republican? You don’t. And as that fact dawned on the party, they’d inevitably abandon the Court-packing scheme and get excited instead about filling some Court seats themselves as vacancies inevitably opened up. This is a tantrum, nothing more, by a wing that’s frightened about the Court’s constitutional future.
More than any other matter regarding the election of Donald Trump, the fact that he gets to select not one, not two, but maybe even three (See ya Ruth) Supreme Court Justices is the most important and long lasting legacy that thankfully, Hillary Clinton didn’t get a chance to do.
Can you imagine the insanity and depravity that would have ensued if Hillary had the opportunity to select 3 Supreme Court Justices? God is obviously watching over us, because in the end, good usually triumphs over evil and Hillary is as evil as it gets.
You can pack the Court via simple legislation by having Congress expand the number of justices (famously, there’s nothing in the Constitution that requires there to be nine) but any red-state Dem who voted for that would be public enemy number one back home. Electorally, it would be tantamount to a retirement announcement. They’d risk a backlash to be good soldiers for their party by voting to confirm a Democratic Court nominee, even if their constituents were grumpy about it, but voting to pack the Court to wrest the majority from Republicans would be an order of magnitude more transgressive than that. If Democrats are half-serious about this, they’ll need not just 50 votes but 50 votes from safe seats. That’s probably impossible.
it is easier to list the Justices
that Trump won’t replace.
Kagan
Gorsuch
(maybe Roberts)
so Trump gets 6 (or 7) picks
Ginsburg won’t last another 6 years.
Why does the SC keep making bad rulings? Because the justices are all from the same schools with the same liberal law school professors:
The Harvard-Yalification Of The Supreme Court
Yale, Harvard Law Taking Over Supreme Court
How to diversify the Ivy League club that is the Supreme Court
Harvard and Yale Ascendant: The Legal Education of the Justices from Holmes to Kagan
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“...he has left himself little room for improvisation - in part because he has delegated and outsourced much of the spadework.”
uh..ya...that’s kinda how the office of President works.
He applies his principles in establishing objectives and policy and directs his subject matter experts on execution.
This is a GREAT LIST:
“Hardiman is believed to be a contender this time as well. Trump’s shortlist also is said to possibly include U.S. Appeals Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett of Indiana; U.S. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh of Maryland, a former Kennedy law clerk; U.S. Circuit Judge Raymond Kethledge of Michigan, who was a finalist last year; and U.S. Appeals Court Judge Amul Thapar of Kentucky.”
And, Trump will likely have the opportunity to seat MOST of them, given the current vacancy and the the fact that Ginsberg, Breyer, and Thomas will likely ‘vacate’, during Trump’s term.
Trump’s makeover of the USSC strongly suggests that the court will be:
<><> a bastion of ultra-right doctrine,
<><>hostile to lamebrain progressive causes of all sorts.
<><> be determined to protect the unborn
<><> will slap down offensive “reproductive rights,”
<><> starve unions,
<><> will look askance at affirmative action,
<><> will toss the ugliness of “diversity” into the dustbin of history
<><> uphold America’s sacrosanct voting rights,
<><> keep criminal defendants in their place.
<><> keep the peace through enhanced L/E,
<><> keep capitalism alive,
<><> reinforce businesses large and small,
<><> uphold the First Amendment, and,
<><> elevate the Second Amendment to new legal heights.