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.
“We could have a Diane Sykes or a Bill Pryor, we have some fantastic people,†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 “the worst abomination in constitutional law in history.†After a higher court ruling on a Alabama execution case, he allegedly ridiculed the Supreme Court by saying “This issue should not be decided by nine octogenarian lawyers who happen to sit on the Supreme Court.†Most recently, Pryor was nominated by President Obama to sit on the United States Sentencing Commission.
Cruz has gone from first place on my list to second because of Trump's merits in getting something done. But between Cruz's own antics, those of Jeff Roe and those of his supporters here, I am beginning to think - WOW! does anything like that need to be anywhere near Washington DC. I had thought he would be a good AG or SC justice. I am convinced his name needs to be scratched for those.
We are talking SERIOUS decisions here. NOT frivolious talk.
And if you confuse the frivolous and the serious in your own head that is on you, not on any other human being on this planet.
Sigh....I'm afraid your right. "The ART of the deal"...shifting with the wind.
Cruz supported John Robert’s appointment.
You don’t want to be this guy’s sister. How about being his son?
This is the exact reason to discard “what type of Supreme Court justices would they nominate” as a criteria in judging a candidate worthy of being President. Reagan had Sandra day oconnor and Scalia. W had Roberts and Alito. Saying a Cruz nominee (for example) is more likely to be conservative is completely unfounded “logic”. Justices change in unpredictable ways sometimes when they get in the Court. Cruz could nominate the most conservative person in the country and history says they may not remain that way on the Court.
Too many here just cannot see that point. If a candidate is conservative then, ipso facto, all appointed by him have to be the same and likely they imagine there is no difference between someone who is a conservative and someone who is an Originalist.
Too much magical thinking going on for me.
AGain with the dishonesty. Trump was ASKED a question about his sister, he answered graciously. Hey, did you know that Cruz wants to use IRS agents at the border, he doesn't want a wall or a fence?
Other than the Obamacare ruling, Roberts has shown to be a reliable Conservative.
LOL< no I don’t want to be any relation of someone who will be so willfully dishonest. Thanks for setting the record straight on your earlier post.
"It's true that Second Amendment litigation is new, and Chicago's ordinance is unlike any firearms law that has received appellate review since Heller. But that doesn't mean we are without a framework for how to proceed. The Supreme Court's approach to deciding Heller points in a general direction. Although the critical question in Heller - whether the Amendment secures an individual or collective right - was interpretive rather than doctrinal, the Court's decision method is instructive.With little precedent to synthesize, Heller focused almost exclusively on the original public meaning of the Second Amendment, consulting the text and relevant historical materials to determine how the Amendment was understood at the time of ratification. This inquiry led the Court to conclude that the Second Amendment secures a pre-existing natural right to keep and bear arms; that the right is personal and not limited to militia service; and that the "central component of the right" is the right of armed self-defense, most notably in the home." - Judge Diane Sykes, Ezell v. Chicago, 651 F. 3d 684 - Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit 2011, as quoted here; also note as Volokh summated here:
"The "plaintiffs are the 'law-abiding, responsible citizens' whose Second Amendment rights are entitled to full solicitude under Heller ... The City's firing-range ban is not merely regulatory; it prohibits the 'law-abiding, responsible citizens' of Chicago from engaging in target practice in the controlled environment of a firing range. This is a serious encroachment on the right to maintain proficiency in firearm use, an important corollary to the meaningful exercise of the core right to possess firearms for self-defense."
Who are we kidding? He didn’t even know who they were before he HAD to know right before the debate.
So you like to just make crap up? Nice...
“Obviously extremely liberal because Ted Cruz said Trump would appoint only liberal judges.”
I’m speechless at the ignorance of this statement.
Just like the way Jethro/JeffRoe et al plonked down that "New York values" boomer-rage boomerang in front of Cruz just before the debate. BusTed looked down at that piece of paper right before he mushed it in his truly half-committed, half-assed wonky-eyed way lol...
Wonderful picks by president trump. I can’twait.
A Bill Pryor nomination would drive many of the Democrats insane.
I would grab a phonebook from some tiny rural city in Iowa and randomly pick two names. No where does it say you have to be a career judge and lawyer to be on the USSC.
Though her stock has fallen around here, Anne Coulter was one of the few to express concern about Roberts' skimpy record.
But unfortunately, other than that that, we don't know much about John Roberts. Stealth nominees have never turned out to be a pleasant surprise for conservatives. Never. Not ever.
She nailed that one.
Not really. See #99. Two stealth nominees from the Bushes.
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