Posted on 07/01/2018 6:11:18 PM PDT by JeepersFreepers
The retirement of moderate Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy provides conservatives with a potential, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to appoint a constitutional jurist to the court and cement a 5-4 conservative majority, but moderate Republicans are already throwing cold water on conservative hopes.
Yesterday, Sen. John Cornyn attempted to manage Republicans’ expectations on the upcoming Supreme Court nomination, saying he wants a less controversial pick for what could potentially be the most impactful Supreme Court appointment in American history.
According to a report by POLITICO, Cornyn “cautioned Trump against selecting any nominee with a publicly stated position on overturning court precedents such as Roe v. Wade.”
“I think that would be a terrible mistake, for the president to nominate somebody who had that sort of agenda,” he said adding that “we don’t need judges who have either personal or political or ideological agendas, in my view. And I think that ought to comfort all of us.”
Cornyn’s statement puts him in direct conflict with not only Texas’ pro-life voters but the president himself. On the campaign trail, Trump promised he would appoint pro-life, Second Amendment-supporting judges who will interpret the law as written.
“The justices that I am going to appoint will be pro-life, they will have a conservative bent, they will be protecting the Second Amendment. They’re great scholars in all cases and they’re people of tremendous respect. They will interpret the Constitution the way the founders intended it to be interpreted,” said Trump.
So far, Trump has kept that promise not only with the appointment of Justice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, but with the appointment of scores of conservative jurists to the nation’s appellate and district courts.
With Republican control of the Presidency and the Senate, the only obstacle to the appointment of conservative judges are Republican hold-outs.
Cornyn’s sentiment places him at odds with Texas’ other conservative leaders. Both Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. Greg Abbott have advocated for the president to nominate Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah.
Has ANY judge on the list publicly called for overturning Roe v Wade?
Cornyn belongs to an exceptionally radical feminist church organization on the Protestant side.
Collins and Murkowski are Catholics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_affiliation_in_the_United_States_Senate#Catholic
President Trump should appoint a conservative man to the Supreme Court. Don Willett would be great.
Republican Senator Mike Lee would be good, too. And both are proven supporters of our Second Amendment.
Potential Supreme Court Justice Mike Lee ON ABORTION
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3666828/posts
Can’t trust the rest of the five individuals being pushed by Bloomberg, regardless of what they say. Some of them are also likely against our Second Amendment and in favor of more power for municipal governments (liberal/left).
“Both Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. Greg Abbott have advocated for the president to nominate Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah.”
With all due respect to Cruz and Abbott, we lost a seat when conservative-leaning Sessions became attorney general. Utah is proving very unreliable at replacing senators with conservative ones. It appears that carpet-bagging RINOs are welcome to fill these spots.
Let’s not put our slim margin at further risk right now.
Planned Parenthood’s new Motto.
Only the good die young.
If Cornyn has a Conservative challenger in his primary, I will heartily support him/her.
Also, Abbott is on board with dismantling this clowns hold of the senior seat in the Senate.
And yes, the LIVs put him in office but I believe the election of PDJT has done some good by making some aware that elections have consequences.
Like with McCain?
Sen Cornyn, grow a set and stand up for America or get out of the way. We will have a Supreme Court that upholds the US Constitution and the values of the America people with or without you!
We can poke fun at him and his arrogance, but voters in TX are too uninformed to do anything about him.
Cornyn over the years followed the path of one of his senatorial predecessors, John Tower, who started out very conservative from 1961 to 1965 but slowly moved left in 1966 to gain reelection and was a full RINO by 1976.
The reason no one can beat Cornball is that Texans go by name identification in picking candidates.
I noticed that- His first term, he was named one of the most Conservative by ACU, then it was downhill.
I don’t expect he will run again anyways.
Don’t nominate anyone that we know about to the Supreme Court?
These Senators aren’t really pro-life. They are running as it to get elected. Anyone who is truly pro-life would care more about the babies that are killed during an abortion more than “precedent”. Could you imagine the Democrats if the situation was reversed? They wouldn’t be making sure to find someone “neutral”. SMH. With Republicans like this, we might as well have Democrats.
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