Posted on 09/21/2020 6:18:49 AM PDT by karpov
President Trump said he would nominate a Supreme Court pick on Friday or Saturday and has five women under consideration to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as Senate Republicans lined up behind him and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), rejecting Democrats calls to let the winner of the presidential election make the pick.
Mr. Trump maintained that the replacement of Justice Ginsburg, who died Friday of metastatic pancreatic cancer at the age of 87, should happen swiftly. We won the election and elections have consequences, he said Monday morning on Fox News. We have plenty of time.
The presidents list has been narrowed to two leading candidates, according to people familiar with the matter: federal appellate judges Amy Coney Barrett of the Seventh Circuit, in Chicago, and Barbara Lagoa of the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta.
The president said he has three other people to choose from, though declined to name them. He said he was looking for someone who is young and could serve on the court for a long time. Were looking for a good person.
Judge Barrett, 48 years old, was confirmed to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in October 2017 in a 55-43 vote. She is popular among social conservatives and was a finalist for the post in 2018 when Mr. Trump chose Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Judge Lagoa, 52, previously served as the first Hispanic woman on Floridas high court.
More than 20 Senate Republicans said over the weekend that they back moving immediately to fill the vacancy, and many are expected to follow suit as the week gets under way. Two Republican senatorsSens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaskabroke ranks this weekend, saying they oppose action on a nomination before the presidential election.
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Stacy is so big she requires two seats on the bench
Yes. I did find some negatives written by Phyllis Schlafly’s boys in 2018 about Larsen.
Trump Can Surpass Reagan with His Pick
by John & Andy Schlafly
July 3, 2018
https://www.phyllisschlafly.com/constitution/judicial-supremacy/trump-can-surpass-reagan-with-his-pick-1533/
[Excerpt:]
“Ms. Joan Larsen was a volunteer for Joe Biden for president in 1987, where she helped with mailings and telephoning for Bidens campaign as she admitted on her Senate questionnaire. That political work for Biden is not something a pro-lifer would do.
Ms. Larsen has claimed there is sexism in the career of law, a common refrain by those who support abortion under the guise of equal rights for women. She has encountered Roe v. Wade often, without criticizing it.
Ms. Larsen, who kept her last name after marrying a law professor, is touted by her supporters as having been a law professor herself at the liberal University of Michigan law school. But in fact she never obtained a tenured chair, and her writings are not up to the level of real law professors.”
“...her writings are not up to the level of real law professors.”
Ouch, that hurts!
(But lots of law professors, including generally all assistant professors and some associate professors, aren’t tenured.)
Not much certain substance there from Schlafly’s boys on Larsen, really. They might have seen instances that were part of a strategy of hers, but I don’t know.
I haven’t found anything about Larsen on the 2nd Amendment, BTW. Looking...
About Lapoa, if I remember correctly, she might have cited foreign law in a case. Would have to look again to be sure.
Trump must know he is losing the election if he is so keen to rush this nomination process. Ugly.
why trump is so slow? he already has list. McConnell is ready.
looks like slowly trump is becoming biden.
slow and corrupt ( see his tik-tok decision : how much money for trump family made in corrupt walmart/oracle/CCP deal )
....
Fu*k You!
I see our rights stated in the Second Amendment as being the most important, although all of our freedoms are important. Britt Grant would be the most solid choice in that regard that I know of. That, because of her participation in the brief against an AR-15 ban.
She’s solid on everything else, too, it appears.
https://civilrights.org/resource/oppose-confirmation-britt-grant-u-s-court-appeals-eleventh-circuit/
https://www.afj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Grant-Snapshot-8.25.20.pdf
And she’s the youngest.
wish I could get this to Trump or show him that this would jazz the base. I really think this would be the right call but guess we got to back him
Good. Rubio should have no part of this process except to vote yes when the Apex Predator tells him to.
If you had to put up with what Trump does day in and day out, my guess is you would crumble after an hour and be sucking your thumb.
If Collins and Murkowski vote Present instead of No, only 48 votes are needed to confirm per Rush.
It will most likely be Saturday as the Notorious RBG will lay in state in the...Capitol rotunda?... all day Friday.
Which means the funeral will be put off until Monday, or who knows until Nov 3rd?
The dems are using this to their advantage to hold Trump back.
They like to use death to continue their narrative/agenda].
The democrat party is the Party of DEATH!
Wow, I thought all the anti Trumpers had slunk away in humiliation and shame.
Oh well, every site needs a chew toy.
He should nominate all 5 Saturday.
#Checkmate
I dont know anyone but Lagoa does seem like she can handle a grueling confirmation process. She exudes a kickass strength about her.
President Trump said out of respect he would wait until the viewing and the funeral were over.
So what if they specially embalm RBG like they did with their other idolized comrade V.I. Lenin? He is still supposedly half-preserved and shown for viewing.
Thus no Supreme Court nominee announcement for 100 years. Clever.
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