Posted on 10/08/2018 1:52:20 PM PDT by Liberty7732
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is signaling that he is ready and prepared to move another Supreme Court nominee from President Trump through Senate confirmation – including during the the 2020 presidential election season, if another seat were to become available then.
“We’ll see if there is a vacancy in 2020,” McConnell said in an appearance on CBS' "Face the Nation."
McConnell famously blocked a Senate vote on former President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nomination Merrick Garland two years ago, on the grounds that it was a presidential election year.
When asked Sunday whether moving a Trump nominee in 2020 would break the precedent he himself set in 2016, McConnell argued that a Senate case in 1880 justified blocking a nominee in the specific situation in which the Senate is controlled by the party opposing the president.
Trump has boasted that he may have the opportunity to nominate several more justices. Court-watchers are closely tuned in, in particular, to the health of liberal justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is 85 years old. The second oldest justice, Stephen Breyer, also generally sides with liberals on the court.
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If Trump gets two more the Communists are down for another 100 years. VOTE!!!
Trump quite realistically could name 6 justices in his 2 terms.
Ginsberg and Breyer as well as Thomas and Sotomayor.. plus the 2 he already has gotten onto the court. The 60 or so years of activist leftist judges destroying th nation through the courts is coming to an end..
Unfortunately Willard is going to be the next senator from Utah and he is a surrender monkey RINO of the worst kind. He’ll probably hire The disgraced Saint Jeffy Flake as his chief of staff. BARF
Darth Vader will be two months short of her 92nd birthday when Trump leaves the White House on 20 January, 2025. Breyer will be 87. According to the Social Security actuarial tables, Ginsburg has a ~20% chance to make it and Breyer, ~27%.
So it’s looking pretty good for a 7-2 court (and a whole lot of apoplectic demoncrats) for President Pence’s first term.
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