Posted on 07/07/2018 11:41:12 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch may have offered a clue about who President Donald Trump will nominate to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, days ahead of the planned announcement on Monday.
In a Friday op-ed article for Deseret News, a prominent newspaper in Hatch's home state of Utah, the longtime Republican lawmaker wrote a defense of the coming nominee amid a highly polarized and evenly split Senate.
"Too much is at stake to allow politics to corrupt the Supreme Court confirmation process," Hatch wrote. "That's why in the coming weeks, I will lift heaven and earth to see the president's nominee across the finish line."
The op-ed was notable for one reason: Hatch referred to the nominee using the pronouns "her" and "she."
“Just as he did with Neil Gorsuch, the president has promised to nominate an impartial judge, a wise and seasoned jurist committed to upholding the Constitution at all costs," Hatch wrote. "But no matter they can to paint her as a closet partisan, if not an outright extremist."
He added: "As the senior member of the Judiciary Committee, I will fight to keep jurisprudence as the sole focus of our confirmation hearings. And I will devote all my energies to ensuring that we confirm the kind of Supreme Court justice America needs: a justice who says what the law is, not what she wants it to be; a justice who calls balls and strikes instead of swinging for the fences; a justice whose foremost allegiance is to the American people and to the Constitution."
Trump's shortlist of potential nominees has been narrowed down to just a few candidates. Amy Coney Barrett, a circuit court judge, is the only woman on the list at the moment.
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Maybe one of the male Judges goes by She-Her./s
I would love it if she got the nod!
I have not seen yet, anything on her 2nd amendment credentials.
Before Orrin Hatch could give a clue he would have to get a clue.
My bet is that some editor randomly changed the pronoun for any unknown third person from “he” to “she” for political correctness.
“I would love it if she got the nod!”
Same here. However, according to some of the talking heads, I know I know, she needs more time on the appellate court. The heads are saying she may get the nod the next go round.
Problem is there might not be a next go around.
I think Barrett, Kavanaugh or Kethridge could go wobbly.
They all have red flags.
My choices include:
Erick Erickson (Amendment II man & prolific writer)
Kirstjen Nielsen (workable border security & person who experienced the wrath of international socialists)
Noel Francisco (Solictor General: federal attorney for Supreme Court cases)
One might look to the State Supreme courts too.
Hatch may just be having the left spend time and effort to fight a phantom.
What about Judge Thomas Hardiman?
He, along with Judge William Pryor, were the three finalists, in PDJT’s nominee to replace Scalia.
Erick Erickson are you out of your cotton picking mind? Not no but Hell Ho.
Those that know aren’t talking, those that talk don’t know.
Well, they do all wear long, flowing, black robes.
I hope its Amy Barrett.
That’s the funniest post I’ve read in weeks!
I’m just completely tired of Orin’s mealy mouth. Go away. But Utah follows with the Mittster? OMG! Worse than Arizona’s picks.
I’m just completely tired of Orin’s mealy mouth. Go away. But Utah follows with the Mittster? OMG! Worse than Arizona’s picks.
“potentially massive clue”
lol
I don’t see it as anything at all, it’s not exactly a secret that Trump is considering at least one women in his top tier, so why wouldn’t the Senator say he or she? I don’t think that hints at anything we didn’t already know...
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