Posted on 07/08/2018 10:50:23 AM PDT by springwater13
President Trump is expressing fresh interest in Judge Thomas M. Hardiman, the runner-up for last year’s Supreme Court vacancy, as he pushes his decision on a replacement for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy into the final hours before his self-imposed deadline of Monday night, three people close to the process said.
All cautioned that Mr. Trump could go a different way before he reveals his choice in a prime-time address on Monday. He has said positive things to associates about Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a staunch social conservative, the people familiar with the process said, and he has not ruled out Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, a former staff secretary to George W. Bush.
But they said he found Judge Hardiman’s personal story to be compelling. Judge Hardiman was the first member of his family to graduate from college, and he helped pay for his education by driving a taxi.
The only judge among the four whom the president appears to have all but ruled out is Raymond M. Kethledge. People close to the process said the president had found him likable but comparatively dull. And some conservatives, whose support has guided Mr. Trump’s thinking about the courts, have voiced concern about Judge Kethledge on issues like immigration.
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I like Barrett but at the same time I’m nervous as we have no clue how she will handle the ongoing invasion.
McConnell gets his marching instructions from the chamber of cronies and the establishment gop.
Gorsuch has been a stellar Justice. Like many who are too lazy to read his actual opinion in Dimaya, you are looking only at the result, rather than his reasoning.
His opinion in that case is grounded in the Constitution, the text of the Statute, and on not permitting the government to use vague definitions in statutes. That’s a principle that anyone who is wary of the government should support, despite the result in this one particular instance.
Even the libtards realize what Gorsuch was doing in his Separate opinion.
https://thinkprogress.org/neil-gorsuch-voted-with-the-liberal-justices-ca1cc1e2fae0/
Hardiman drove a cab and although accepted to Harvard couldn’t afford the tuition, so went to Notre Dame, which gave him a full scholarship.
Sounds like a non-elitist to me.
Also sounds like a guy with common sense.
Anybody who has ever driven a cab gets to see all types of people, and instinctively has a dislike for nonsense, hipsters, freeloaders, communists, and illegal aliens.
We need more cab drivers on the SC.
Roberts is extorted by the American Communist Apparatchik STILL in control of DC.
He ought to RESIGN tomorrow, confess that he betrayed us due to extortion (he looks like a homo and has shenanigans going on with his adopted kids), and really throw a MONKEY WRENCH into the gears of the scumbags in DC.
What a dishonorable DOUCHEBAG!!!!!!!!!
Roberts can redeem himself and admit he was forced into his unconstitutional ruling, I’ll petition his office to do the right thing.
ANOTHER BUSH MISTAKE!!!!!
Yes, the conservative popularity contest applied to SC decision-making.
Please, don't be bashful, tell us how you REALLY feel. lol.
In any case, I think Roberts turned traitor as well, but the FReepers demanding he be tarred and feathered weren't helping us anymore than those on the other extreme trying to justify Roberts decision saying it had a "silver lining" of "ensuring Obama will be a one term president" and other BS like that (including the Gorsuch style excuse of "oh he was just sending it back to Congress to get them to do their job right and fix the law, so his reasoning was sound").
I recall numerous FReepers demanding Roberts impeachment at the time of the Obamacare decision. How exactly that would be solved anything was beyond me, since if they hypothetically succeeded in getting Roberts impeached and removed at the time, Obama would have promptly named a Ruth Bader Ginsburg clone to fill the vacancy.
Overall, if Gorsuch and Roberts had been on the court a similar length of time, I could probably easily show Gorsuch is well to the left of Roberts (as he certainly was prior to his SCOTUS appointment) But since Gorsuch has only been there a year and Roberts has been there a decade, we have almost no Gorsuch record to evaluate. Roberts record after only 1 year on the court had been "excellent" as well (and so had Sandra Day O'Connor, Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, etc.), so it basically means nothing.
If you want to talk REAL judicial reforms against these backstabbing federal judges, it is time to rethink the rules allowing them to have a LIFETIME appointment and the ONLY method of removal from the bench being impeachment. If that means amending the U.S. constitution, so be it.
What Gorsuch did, which you apparently find abhorent, is to apply the standard of legal clarity required for criminal law to administrative law. You and your 4 court brethren find this appalling.
For those of us, however, who have long decried the growth of federal power at the expense of individual rights fostered by such out of control workarounds of due process as civil asset forfeiture or administrative law, this is refreshing.
I for one want some more Gorsuches on the court so that when a good case finally comes along to take down or limit the reach of the Chevron deference "doctrine" advantage will be taken of the opportunity. The present "conservatives" aren't going to do it. It's stare decisis. So is civil asset forfeiture, and if one place of criminal due prcoess to be applied to a "civil" cause is applicable it is this one, which is the governments effort to use civil process to extract criminal penalties without regard to criminal standards of due process or standards of proof.
So, I applaud Gorsuch. My fight is for rule of law, not rule of doctrinaire statist conservatives.
My thought is Roberts didn’t want to overrule Congress and so twisted himself into a pretzel to not do so. He seems like a smug, full of himself and his judicial majesty type.
I give no credence to evidence free “blackmail” theories which seem to amount to “he illegally adopted his kids and libs could take the kids away or impeach him for it”. I don’t understand why that nonsense is easier for some people to believe than to believe he’s just a jerk. Maybe they don’t want to take responsibility for loving his nomination? I don’t see why, mistakes happen, especially with the limited information we have on judicial nominees.
Someone posted that he had worked for Sor@ss for a firm called Ayurda??
If I can find the post, again, I’ll repost it here.
The idea he could be blackmailed over being “a homo” is about 100 times sillier than “shenanigans going on with his adopted kids” allegation.
If he’s a homo, his wife knows. And no one else cares.
I read it.
I don’t know if I’d have ruled the same way but his reasoning was solid and I can’t fault him for it. The law should have been better written.
This is how rule of law works. It's not a popularity contest where you vote for the home team. It's an intellectual argument to establish what is a just outcome under the circumstance, for the individual and for the rule of law, and rule of law requires respect for and consistency with prior rulings on the same legal issue applying generally accepted legal principles.
If a law has problems the solution is for Congress to fix the law - out in the open in public where everyone can watch them do it [you know like Obamacare /s].
You know she's 100% supportive of abortion on demand and gay marriage, and says she she "bright blue strips on social issues", right?
Didn’t know that and sorry to hear it.
I like her, but she is 67...a fine-looking 67, but still 67. No thanks.
Hardiman is unabashedly pro-2A, which is a good sign that he’s an Originalist on most all issues. That the DC Compost hates him for this is confirmation that he’s a great choice.
Ugh—bad news! He is an open borders moderate!
That personal story is no reason to put this squish on the USSC!
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