Posted on 02/14/2016 3:03:45 AM PST by 4rcane
During the Republican debate on Saturday night, Donald Trump floated two names as potential nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court: Judge Diane S. Sykes and Judge Bill Pryor.
âWe could have a Diane Sykes or a Bill Pryor, we have some fantastic people,â Trump told the audience. Both judges are well-known conservatives serving on the federal level.
Who is Diane S. Sykes?
Sykes is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She was nominated by George W. Bush and confirmed in 2004. She went to Northwestern University and attended Marquette University Law School. She was dropped as a name for the U.S. Supreme Court under President George W. Bush. She was part of the 2011 panel that held a Chicago ban on firing ranges unconstitutional. Prior to being appointed on the federal court, Sykes served as Justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Who is Bill Pryor?
Pryor is a federal judge in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He was nominated by President George W. Bush in 2003. His nomination was filibustered so in 2004, President Bush installed the former Alabama Attorney General on the court during a congressional recess appointment. Democrats scrutinized Pryor for some of his conservative stands, including on Roe v. Wade. Pryor previously said, according to confirmation hearing testimony, that Roe was âthe worst abomination in constitutional law in history.â After a higher court ruling on a Alabama execution case, he allegedly ridiculed the Supreme Court by saying âThis issue should not be decided by nine octogenarian lawyers who happen to sit on the Supreme Court.â Most recently, Pryor was nominated by President Obama to sit on the United States Sentencing Commission.
You just don't understand, LowOil. Pryor was mentioned because obviously the dems would rise up against him and at that point the even more superconservative Roy Moore would be nominated, just to show them who's a pussy and who's not.
There are many different levels of genius at work here and we must learn to deconstruct them properly.
lol
Yep. Cruz would not be perfect in the nomination process either.
Roberts acts blackmailed though. Pretty weird.
For once, just once, Mitch McConnell can be a hero for the right if he can put this appointment on hold until we elect a new president. The Thurmond rule!!
I’d be surprised if McConnell drains any yellow liquid on our burning bodies.
I can imagine me being a billionare, standing a few feet away from a slick-talking lawyer on a “debate” stage, and the slick-talking lawyer starts running his mouth about me, telling lies after lie.The so-called moderators letting the the liar go on and on without asking him to prove his allegations. The “debate” being held in a room full of RNC Bush supporting RINOs. I would have knocked the living hell out of the slick talking lawyer, and as I was walking off the stage I would have said “you bastards were warned, I’m running party”. Never in the history of the republic has a political party tried to destroy the front-runner. The GOP needs to be destroyed and to paraphrase Ronald Reagan “relegated to the ash heap of history”. Say hello to President Hillary Clinton.
LOL. Trump only said that to cover for his idiotic earlier comments about his PRO abortion Sister who would be a “Good choice”. Trump is off the deep end. I pray South Carolina will end this Trump fetish.
Trump’s sister was appointed by Ronald Reagan.
So Trump is a liberal because he praised his sister?
Cruz supporters are going off the rails.
He’s a liberal because he’s a liberal.
Would Cruzbots settle for that? He wont be POTUS, but SCOTUS has no natural born requirement.
For bashing the GW he can sure follow in his foot steps.
AMEN to that FRiend
Only took two posts.
And with his naming those judges, it silences all the critics in terms of him being vague on the issues.
Smartest guy in the field right now.
We can shout this to the mountain tops LowOil, and those drinking the Trump KoolAid will not listen or believe it...sadly
Not true...Cruz knew a lot more about Roberts than was revealed to any of us...
Who are we kidding? He didn’t even know who they were before he HAD to know right before the debate.
You could tell he wanted to hurry and drop the names in there before he forgot them. Lol.
When he said Diane Sykes, I was like “omg he’s totally pandering!” His kids obviously looked up Bush nominees or potential nominees and COPIED BUSH because that would be a safe bet BECAUSE he doesn’t know enough CONSERVATIVES judges to think of one on his own
" She'd be the BEST"
" It would be a conflict of interest"
He sticks his finger in the air and then changes with the wind.
Even though he said " I'd not nominate my sister" did he NOT SAY that she would be the BEST??? If SHE would be the BEST then why would he not think twice in finding another like her...
And just recently OBAMA put one of TRUMPS two choices on a committee...
It'll stop when Cruz quits lying...
We are talking Supreme Court Justice of the USA!!
At that point , yes. IF my liberal son was a Judge I would NOT recommend him, son or no!!!
Thank you for this information.
TRUMP scares the daylights out of me, truthfully.
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