Posted on 09/29/2020 5:49:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
By nominating Federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, Donald Trump kept his word, and more than that.
Should she be confirmed, he will have made history.
Even his enemies would have to concede that Trump triumphed where his Republican predecessors -- even Ronald Reagan, who filled three court vacancies -- fell short. Trump's achievement -- victory in the Supreme Court wars that have lasted for half a century -- is a triumph that will affect the nation and the law for years, perhaps decades.
Trump's remaking of the Supreme Court for constitutionalism may well be the crown jewel of his presidency.
Consider. If Judge Barrett becomes Justice Barrett, she will join Justices Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to create a constitutionalist core of five justices, a controlling majority.
On the other side would sit the three liberals: 82-year-old Stephen Breyer and Barack Obama appointees Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.
If Chief Justice John Roberts envisioned a Roberts Court where he would be the swing vote for 4-4 deadlocks, deciding every such case himself, his dream could be about to vanish.
If Barrett is confirmed, the new court becomes "The Five," with its youngest, newest and most charismatic member, a 48-year-old protege of Justice Antonin Scalia, its brightest and rising star.
Consider the credentials of the jurist Trump just named.
Barrett was summa cum laude at Notre Dame Law School, graduating first in her class. She clerked for Scalia, taught law at South Bend for 15 years and has served for three years on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The attack from Senate Republicans soon zeroed in on Fortas' social liberalism on pornography as manifest in his having voted alone on the court to approve for public viewing films depicting acts of homosexual sex.
Fortas not only failed to win the support of the two-thirds of the Senate he needed to overcome a Republican filibuster, he also failed to win a simple majority, receiving only 45 votes for confirmation. On Oct. 1, 1968, Fortas asked Johnson to withdraw his nomination, and in the spring of 1969, he was forced to resign from the court in a financial scandal.
Warren would have to swear in Nixon as the nation's 37th president on Jan. 20, 1969, and then watch Nixon replace him as chief justice with Judge Warren Burger in the spring of that same year.
Came then Nixon's losing battles to put Southern judges Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell on the court, Reagan's failure to elevate Bob Bork, and the brutal but failed assaults on Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh.
Now comes Amy Coney Barrett's turn.
If Senate Republicans stay united, then they can realize a victory that generations of their GOP predecessors had hoped to see.
Yep, we're talking history here, which is why I believe Romney got on board. You don't want to be a derogatory footnote in history as your legacy.
Senator George McGovern of South Dakota said of Carswell, "I find his record to be distinguished largely by two qualities: racism and mediocrity." Responding to the charge that Carswell was mediocre, U.S. Senator Roman Hruska, a Nebraska Republican, stated:
Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they, and a little chance? We can't have all Brandeises, Frankfurters and Cardozos.
All it will really do is show publicly how he has felt privately all along: he's no conservative or constructionist...
You are right: Roberts goes left more times than not. Bush I gave us the quisling David Souter and Bush II gave us the swishy Roberts. But at least Bush II gave us Alito.
The problem is not the Supreme Court. The problem is the numerous left wing appointees from the Obama and Bush and Clinton years sitting on the benches of the local federal district courts who have been suborned and who are systematically issuing injunctions against every decision a duly elected President has been making since 2016. Unless and until these seditionist judicial activists are impeached or otherwise removed from authority, we will continue to have a captive politicized judicial system eroding the power of the presidency by its fealty to the directives of George Soros and the rest of the leftist deep state cabal.
“Trump’s remaking of the Supreme Court for constitutionalism may well be the crown jewel of his presidency.”
That as well as his completely ripping the facade off of and exposing the Left for the lying, hate filled, violent scum they truly are and this includes the media.
I was reading this without looking at who wrote it.
Then I saw Bork referred to as Bob Bork.
I immediately thought that the writer MUST be Buchanan because there isn’t anyone else around who was active in the Nixon White House.
I love Pat.
I think that once ACB is confirmed, the President is re-elected, and Wray is fired, there needs to be an investigation as to if or why Roberts is compromised. If so, he be encouraged to retire.
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