Posted on 09/20/2019 4:54:32 PM PDT by T Ruth
Her writings on faith and jurisprudence should worry conservatives.
The left is engaged in full-on panic over control of the U.S. Supreme Courtwhich Justice Scalia once described as having become a de facto sitting Constitutional Convention, subjecting every law in every state to the views of five lifetime appointees: an oligarchy of lawyers from Harvard, Stanford, and Yale.
As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburgs health concerns continue to loom, liberals are trying to spook Speaker Mitch McConnell into swearing off confirmation hearings for any Trump appointee during an election year. At the same time, The New York Times and The New Yorker are trying to drive Brett Kavanaugh off the court with still more unsupported, second- or third-hand allegations. The spectacle is positively Orwellian.
The next Supreme Court appointment, assuming Trump gets one, will be pivotal; we cant afford for him to waste it by choosing a justice whom he thinks will be easier to confirm, despite his or her weaknesses.
Trump should recognize that no conservative appointment will be easy. The left has already shown us their playbook. It reads: treat as literally Hitler any jurist who might return to an honest reading of the Constitution on Second Amendment rights, abortion, or executive authority on immigration.
President Trump should not take the salacious nature of the smear campaign against Brett Kavanaugh to mean that he must appoint a woman. Why believe that leftists are incapable of crafting an obscene smear of either sex? Put nothing past these people. Nothing.
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There will be no easy appointments; Trump should make it count. Trumps presumptive choice is Judge Amy Coney Barrett, currently sitting on the Seventh Circuit. But I have profound questions about Barretts suitability for the high court, ...
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
Thank you.
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I read about 1/2 and am marking it to finish it, carefully, later. You’re right: Zmirak seems to be making a good case-— and, let me say, a courageous one.
It is so sad how we on the right can’t trust anybody. Thank you McCain, Romney, Arnold S. the Bush’s and John Roberts.
Wasn’t Scalia Catholic?
IMO he was one of the best conservatives on the court.
Scalia and Thomas ---in the "Catholic" category too, --- are cited by Zmirak as role models who understand the necessary difference between a jurist and a prelate.
Well, at least she will be an anti abortion hardliner.
It seems when we are told one is a safe pick, the person turns out blackmailed or squishy.
So maybe go with one whom we are told is unsafe.
Perhaps the sources of such info are the problem.
I believe the Left will go totally insane if control of the Supreme Court is at stake.
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Will we be able to tell the difference from their current behavior?
“Sounds like she would be an excellent heir of the Scalia tradition.”
Actually the article makes a good case for just the opposite.
He retweeted Bill Kristol on Twitter.
Why don’t we look at her voting record as a judge?
Actually this front hole Zmirak retweeted Bill Kristol - which makes HIM a NeverTrump Front Hole.
How about no affirmative action female picks?
The first Catholic Chief Justice gave us Dred Scott.
Was that your question that Mark Steyn answered in his current edition of “Mark’s Mailbox”?
America is not a Catholic country, so being a practicing Catholic is irrelevant. None of the Catholics on this site will tell you about how the Church held that Americanism was a sin: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americanism_(heresy)
America was founded on the principles of the Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment and our legal system is English common law. Any justice who has faith otherwise is not qualified.
I would strongly prefer seeing a supreme court candidate who is an open supporter of the Second Amendment, an active gun owner, a carrier, maybe a competitive shooter, someone who has had a lifelong ownership, use, and respect of guns. Too many of our supreme court candidates never had a gun and thus no respect for them and their role in our nations history.
This!
good catch
How could we possibly contradict him? < /s >
do I need any tags?
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