LIVE THREAD - President Trump's United States Supreme Court Pick

Myself | 7/9/2018 | Myself

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

Thread for discussions before & after President Donald J Trump SCOTUS Pick!

[Shortstop7]

Yep. I’m fine with it. Winning!

[The Pack Knight]

I read Kavanaugh’s lengthy dissent in Heller II. He’s strong on the second amendment and originalism, so I am cautiously optimistic. I just hope he can be the 4th vote so SCOTUS will finally grant cert on a second amendment case or three,

[mass55th]

Kavanaugh got his law degree from Yale, and taught at Harvard. Scalia and Gorsuch earned their law degrees from Harvard.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Thanks..agree..exactly

[Irish Eyes]

I didn't like when he said he would follow 'precedent'.

Following precedent is a good thing.

[PJ-Comix]

Let’s not forget he said he was educated by Jesuits for the first 12 years of his life. LIBERAL Jesuits, Roe v, Wade is safe with him in the court.

FOR THE FIRST 12 YEARS OF HIS LIFE HE WAS EDUCATED BY TEACHERS! DISQUALIFIED!!!

[little jeremiah]

I agree. Here’s a few snips from of all places an LA Times article.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-20180709-story.html

But lawyers who have worked with Kavanaugh are confident he will be boldly conservative.

“Brett Kavanaugh is courageous, tough and defiant. He will never, ever go wobbly,” said Justin Walker, a University of Louisville law professor who worked as law clerk for both Kavanaugh and Justice Kennedy. “I predict that he would be a rock-solid conservative in the Alito-Thomas mold,” he said, referring to Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Clarence Thomas.

Kavanaugh took a post in the White House counsel’s office under President Bush and later served as his staff secretary. Bush nominated him to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2003, but because of strong opposition from Democrats, he was not confirmed until 2006.

Since then, he has written about 300 opinions and compiled a solidly conservative record on a court that has a steady diet of dense regulatory disputes. Kavanaugh was skeptical of several of the Obama administration’s environmental regulations, including efforts to limit greenhouse gases and hazardous air pollutants.

And he dissented in 2015 when the appeals court upheld a revised regulation under the Affordable Care Act involving contraceptives. Although religious employers did not have to provide or pay for the disputed contraceptives, they were required to file a form notifying the government that they were opting out. Dissenting in Priests for Life vs. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Kavanaugh said that filing the form would make them complicit, and therefore, would violate their rights to religious freedom.

Kavanaugh appears to support broader gun rights under the 2nd Amendment. In 2011, he filed a 52-page dissent when the appeals court, by a 2-1 vote, upheld a District of Columbia ordinance that prohibited semiautomatic rifles and magazines holding more than 10 rounds. The judges in the majority, both Republican appointees, noted that several large states, including California and New York, enforced similar laws.

But Kavanaugh said the ban on semiautomatic rifles was unconstitutional because the weapons are in common use in this country. “As one who was born here, grew up in this community in the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and has lived and worked in this area almost all of his life, I am acutely aware of the gun, drug and gang violence that has plagued all of us…. But our task is to apply the Constitution and the precedents of the Supreme Court, regardless of whether the result is one we agree with as a matter of first principles or policy,” he wrote.

[jpsb]

thanks!

[VA40]

Screw you. It’s a valid point.

[Yaelle]

You are getting past boring

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Thanks. I guess that is up to the level of annoying. I really don’t want to be.

I’ll try to be quieter.

[Salvation]

**will make the laws fit that viewpoint.**

Sounds like another swing-voter Kennedy.

[CAluvdubya]

Jay Sekulow on now.

[wrcase]

Isn’t Gorsuch Protestant? I remember hearing he was Episcopalian.

[springwater13]

Democrats HATE Kavanaugh on the 2nd Amendment. Excellent Pick. Chris Murphy ‏Verified account @ChrisMurphyCT 28m28 minutes ago Brett Kavanaugh is a true Second Amendment radical. He believes assault weapon bans are unconstitutional, a position way out of the judicial mainstream, far to the right of even late Justice Scalia.

[ozarkgirl]

These choices are Generational and we are fortunate that the Hildebeast is not picking any SCOTUS Nominees. If she had, the Republic would be gone forever, and everyone reading this knows it.

Agree wholeheartedly. The other day I was reading DU and they were extremely upset and some seriously suicidal that Kennedy had resigned. Hey folks, that would be us if Trump didn't win. We should be happy even if this wasn't our first pick.

[little jeremiah]

I’m trying to find articles about his previous decisions and statements. That’s going to show what kind of a judge he will be. He isn’t automatically an elitist snob.

[JustaCowgirl]

And dodging the spears that will get flung at him. Tonight he was told to stick to basketball, I’m sure.

[yesthatjallen]

In my book, precedent is a liberal buzz word.

'Roe v Wade' is precedent.

[CAluvdubya]

Sekulow likes him.

[Salvation]

Thapar would be a good replacement for Thomas.