Posted on 07/01/2018 4:51:06 AM PDT by familyop
WASHINGTON Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement creates the possibility that President Donald Trump will nominate a Texan for the seat...While Cruz supported Willett's nomination to the 5th Circuit, he endorsed Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, for Kennedy's Supreme Court seat in an appearance on Fox News on Wednesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Don Willett was also endorsed by the NRA (Bearing Arms site) and Gun Owners of America (The Trace: evil gun control site).
Here's a guest column written by Don Willett.
Justice Don R. Willett, guest columnist: Online resource helps us better understand our Constitution
https://www.wacotrib.com/opinion/columns/guest_columns/justice-don-r-willett-guest-columnist-online-resource-helps-us/article_4281c88f-91f7-50a2-9f2b-797c5d875169.html
I don't know why "The Associated Press" appears on Rachel's column page. She writes for Dallas News.
“...Bloomberg claimed to have a list of five potential nominees from a secret source,”.
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I am so done with “secret” (”unnamed”, “confidential”, et al) sources and I refuse to believe ANY news story that cites such a source.
If they can’t name a source, it didn’t happen.
We will know on July 9th.
Not to pee in everyone’s popcorn, but with a 51(50)/49 majority and Collins/Murkowski threatening to jump ship over the abortion issue it’s pretty obvious that a Gorsuch clone would be our best bet. If the nominee fails it’s going to push the next nominee past the November elections.
I say do it, make her the first pick and let the Dems (and RINOs) stumble all over themselves saying how a woman with seven children (moms can do it all), 2 adopted from Haiti (embraces diversity and helps those less fortunate) is too extreme, especially in light of their recent claims of keeping families together and not ripping children from their mothers arms. Make them all go on record with their vote. If shes rejected, there are plenty of other great picks, too, and the video of the hearings will make great mid-term election fodder.
Thomas Hardiman
Not too concerned, I think we’ll get a couple of confirmation votes from Dems running for re-election in Red States to offset Collins/Murkowski.
Have you looked at the man endorsed by Cruz?
Protecting the Second Amendment
https://www.lee.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/protect-2a
>>I say do it, make her the first pick and let the Dems (and RINOs) stumble all over themselves saying how a woman with seven children (moms can do it all), 2 adopted from Haiti (embraces diversity and helps those less fortunate)<<
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, President Trump do not make the mistake of selecting this woman. She is a flaming Liberal masquerading as a Conservative. The judicial equivalent of a Congressional RINO! DO NOT EVEN CONSIDER HER!!
>>”Barrett is a mother of seven children, including a special needs child and two children adopted from Haiti.”
Some political Catholics have also been promoting her for the Supreme Court, because...Catholic and female, of course.<<
Please, Mr. President, do NOT nominate Barrett. Doing so would be a mistake ten times worse than your appointment of that useless POS hiding under his desk over at the DOJ!
Sen. Mike Lee and brother, Thomas Lee, both being considered to replace Kennedy on Supreme Court
Thomas Lee Utah Supreme Court Justice, their father was Rex Lee, President Reagan’s Sol. General.
If President Trump nominates a solid Conservative woman for the bench Gloria Allred will be in tears hahaha
My bet is on Amul Thapur and Barret will get nod next time.
I’m sure Trump will pick an excellent person, but consider a couple of things:
1) Even if our women bail on the pick, the Democrats have something like 5 candidates who will be hurt badly if they go against the pick...and without all of the Dems following Shumer off the cliff, our women won’t matter.
2) As to our women - it CERTAINLY POSSIBLE to be both pro-choice, including wanting laws to protect abortion, but still be AGAINST Roe vs. Wade, based on how the issue was forced on the entire country. That seems to have always been the position of the Republican pro-choice Senators in the past, where they voted, I think every time, for some really pro-life people, like Alito, Scalia, and Thomas. Sure, this new Justice may end Roe vs. Wade...but may not either, you never know.
I like Mike Lee, but I do not want to lose a Republican in the Senate. Find a judge that is NOT a sitting Senator.
Willett would be my top choice. There are some others on Trump’s list who also look like good choices though. There are some others I just don’t know enough about.
Please provide sources.
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