Trump's Supreme Court frontrunners: A mother of seven who adopted two children from Haiti and belongs to a Christian sect that inspired The Handmaid's Tale - and a Cuban American whose father was stopped from becoming a lawyer by Castro

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | Sept 20, 2020 | Frances Mulraney

[libstripper]

President Donald Trump's announced Saturday night that the Supreme Court nominee he plans to announce next week to fill the vacancy left by Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be a woman, spotlighting two conservative women as his potential pick.

During a campaign rally in North Carolina, Trump declared 'I will be putting forth a nominee this week, it will be a woman', later adding his pick would be a 'very talented, very brilliant woman' because 'I like women more than I like men'.

As he left the White House for the rally, the president identified two women as front runners: Amy Coney Barrett, 48, of the Chicago-based 7th Circuit and Barbara Lagoa, 52, of the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit as possible nominees.

[Don Corleone]

Can either side really count on a 5 to 3 SCOTUS???

[Zhang Fei]

[Lagoa also got about 30 dem votes in her confirmation. Why??? What do they know that we don’t?]

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The same thing that the 11 Democrats who voted for Clarence Thomas knew, despite the fact that the Democrats had 57 Senate seats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas_Supreme_Court_nomination#Full_Senate

A vote against Lagoa might turn a critical ethnic voter bloc against them personally, ending their political careers. The Dems could easily have filibustered Thomas’s nomination. They dared not. Pols talk a good game about party solidarity. But when the going gets tough, it’s every man for himself.

[mass55th]

I don’t know anything about Barrett, but has her “very large wannabe social worker do gooder streak” interfered with her doing her job on the lower court?

[Zhang Fei]

[Then she goes and virtue signals by adopting two Haitian kids.]

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Some people just want a big family. She adopted abroad not to virtue signal, but to avoid the complications of adopting domestically. Non-damaged birth parents can get their kid back. Damaged birth parents (i.e. substance abusers) also have damaged kids who, at the extremes, end up massacring other kids (remember the FL situation?). Fact is, until abortion is outlawed and domestic adoptions made irrevocable, adopting here is a fraught process. I know of people who have adopted damaged kids, as well as those who adopted perfectly fine kids, then had their birth parents take them back with the support of the court system. Both went through nightmarish ordeals.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Lagoa seems better, but would take more time. Crap!

[Jane Long]

May be of interest ping.

[budj]

"... Barbara Lagoa....
Ahhh....NO. She was confirmed to the Appeals court by a vote of 80 - 15. That’s TOKEN opposition..."

Don't know much about either of the possibilities, but it's possible that Lagoa's Cuban (Latina) heritage could account for the little extra demonrat support.

[Fairhairedboy]

she's a member of a somewhat dingy religious group

Maybe in your perverted mind.

[cll]

Lagoa, OTOH, is a hard rock conservative with Cuban refugee parents who knows and hates communism

I wouldn't take that to the bank. My sister married into a large Cuban family. Most of them live in the Miami area now, and the first and second generations are ALL democrats. They no longer invite me to their parties as I always question them if they learned anything from their parents' and grandparents' experience with socialism.

[carcraft]

I was involved in a Christian community very similar to People of Praise. The members seemed to have very narrow vision. REGARDLESS of your background, training etc as a new member you were wrong about expressed concerns with the community. . Very authoritarian. Submit to your leader or head. One young lady joined., she was placed in a household, given a “head” who was supposed to manage her finances etc. she gave her salary to her head and got an allowance. THe head spent the money and she was oblivious to what was going on until creditors started calling her at work. She was thousands of dollars behind in debt.. I am not sure if people of praise is the same. Barrett does sound like a good person.

[Pollard]

No more Catholics. We have too many already. There are no longer any Protestants, and we need at least a couple, remembering who most of our Founders were, who wrote the Constitution on their Christian principles.

I wholeheartedly agree.

[libstripper]

Not as far as I’ve seen, but she’s ambitious and may be hiding her secret thoughts, just like Roberts.

[L.A.Justice]

Doesn’t Judge Lagoa look like Gloria Estefan?

[MrChips]

Are you implying that Catholic principles are not Christian?

[PA Presbyterian]

I’d favor a Protestant for a change. The Court is overloaded with Catholics and Jews. Protestants are the most numerous Christians in this country. Why is there only one on the Court—Gorsuch?

I would go for someone other than Barret. Barret is a member of a nutty sect. It sounds like one of those New Apostolic Reformation groups that believe in modern day apostles that have powers as “little gods” to prophesize, heal, and even raise people from the dead. Some examples: Bill Johnson’s Bethel Church in Redding, California. It’s infecting Protestant and Catholic churches all over the world. She will be smeared by Democrats on that alone.

[Chode]

so the CC is a SECT now... also ACB clerked for Scalia

i’d have no problem wi Elizabeth Britt though, member of the Federalist Society works for me

[Jane Long]

That’s the part I was trying to ‘get’.....what sect does ACB (per DM claim) belong to?

Oh....the RCC.

Geez.

And, trying to make a connection between that, and the Handmaid’s Tale tale???? Even more absurd.

This is a far-fetching smear piece....that fails miserably.

[Jane Long]

Also...I’ll have to look up Elizabeth Britt.

I like the Federalist Society.

Thanks.

[Chode]

see post#11

[Jane Long]

Thanks for the Elizabeth Britt info.