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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Erick Erickson, the dope that lost his gig backfilling for Rush because he went on a tirade against Trump?
The guy is up there with Frank Luntz for Putz of the Decade.
Erick Erickson is a fool.
Her husband is a US Prosecutor. He likes guns.
Hatch is basically just F-ing with people ...
“Problem is there might not be a next go around.”
Yeh, I know.
National Review former Never Trumper establishment Jamie Weinstein just said on Fox that Trump has been given a letter of recommendation on Bushie Kavanaugh, saying if Kavanaugh is selected he’ll be “deferential” to the president if the Russia case is taken to the Supreme Court, trying to make Trump testify. So there you have it. Trump after blasting the Bushes to Kingdom Come in all likelihood will pick a Bushie yes-man to be the next Supreme Court Justice. Trump’s base want a conservative on the court. What they’re getting is Kennedy 2.0. A deep-stater who will side with democrats on all social issues. Democrats get who they want. Roe v Wade is safe. Makes me sick to my stomach.
J Kavanaugh clerked for J Kennedy. Who would be more appropriate as his replacement?
I’d rather have:
1. Ted Nugent
2. Tom Selleck
3. Myself
3 folks that won’t waiver from the guidance of the Constitution.
Kavanaugh is a Bush RINO. He will be Kennedy 2.0. A liberal on social issues. Democrats and RINOs love him. Conservatives don’t and Cruz, Paul and Lee will not vote for him. With this pick Trump betrays his base. He said yesterday that his base loved one his candidates, but that person will be thrown under the bus because Trump wants to make RINOs and democrats happy. Roe v Wade and homosexual “marriage” is safe with Kavanaugh on the court,
And the real title this time is
“A top Republican senator offered a potentially massive clue about Trump’s Supreme Court pick”
07/06/2018 9:33:08 PM PDT · by MagillaX · 29 replies
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3669050/posts
Another duplicate. Same lefty gun control publication (Business Insider), same title, same author, same content.
And Drudge still begging with a woman for the Supreme Court with his blurb in gigantic font, “TRUMP LADY COURT PICK?”
It might be related somehow to his extra interest over the past many months in transsexuals, sex robots, celebrity gossip, etc.
Yep - the Dems already shot their wad on her Catholicism....they would look like even bigger fools and bigots this go around...
You know Pence wants the lady....and so it will be. He’s the shadow prez.
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