Posted on 09/15/2016 7:52:04 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The eccentric billionaire endorsed Trump in a speech at the Republican National Convention this summer.
Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel spoke at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this summer. Sources say GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump would nominate Thiel to the Supreme Court.
Donald Trump has made it clear he will nominate Peter Thiel to the Supreme Court if he wins the presidency, Thiel has told friends, according to a source close to the PayPal co-founder.
Trump “deeply loves Peter Thiel,” and people in the real estate mogul’s inner circle are talking about Thiel as a Supreme Court nominee, a separate source close to Trump told The Huffington Post. That source, who has not spoken to Trump directly about Thiel being nominated to the Court, cautioned that Trump’s offers often fail to materialize in real life.
It’s not clear whether Trump has indeed offered to nominate Thiel ― only that Thiel has said Trump would nominate him and that Trump’s team has discussed Thiel as a possible nominee. Both sources requested anonymity, given that Trump and Thiel have each demonstrated a willingness to seek revenge against parties they feel have wronged them. In Thiel’s case, he secretly financed lawsuits against Gawker.com with the intention of destroying the publication. He succeeded, and his role in the assault was only revealed in the final stages.
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I try to believe all rumors started by unnamed “sources”! / s
How else would we know whose hands are in our pockets?
I think you have to stick with someone who has a firm grasp of the judicial system. That means the person should have been a judge and have a sterling track record.
We need to know their views on the Constitution, and that they have judged in accordance with it.
I understand your thinking, but I think you’re off base a bit.
That institution must be broken out of its groupthink bubble.
I think Justice Scalia rejected that idea. His point was that laymen such as you and I think of SCOTUS justices as either philosopher king wannabes, or not philosopher king wannabes. But on a daily, hourly basis, the job is legal work, for which legal training is essential for effectiveness.Maybe you could name an autodidact who would learn anything and do any job well. Thomas Sowell, for example. But it would be a problem until he got up to speed (and Sowell himself is in his late eighties).
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Legal training may be necessary for the proper writing of opinions, but it is an impediment to the job of the supreme court judge.
The constitution is written in plain clear language, and any law not so written should be rejected by the court as contrary to the principles of this nation.
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That's my guess as to the origin of this nonsense.
I’m inclined to agree, it was an inside joke between Trump and Thiel and it’s being reported as absolute truth. Trump likes Thiel and respects his business savvy, but this isn’t going to happen.
Thank you.
Yes, I had noticed a few posts on the thread saying that this story had been denied by the Trump people and by someone speaking for Thiel.
As someone on the thread — possibly you — said, this is just HuffPo attempting to influence Trump voters.
Went back and looked, and, yes, it was you who said it.
seems that way, yes.
I think Trump is smarter than that, anyway
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There are NO specific educational requirements to be a supreme court justice and that includes a law degree!
For example, Chief Justice Earl Warren did not have a law degree.
The internet is the biggest thing to hit media since Gutenberg.
That was my first thought, too.
However, it turns out Thiel graduated from Stanford Law School and clerked for Judge James Edmondson of the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. Judge Edmondson is a Reagan appointee.
He earned a J.D. at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 1914.
Maybe the point was that he'd never practiced law before Ike appointed him.
I hope not. Homosexual. Wouldn’t be prudent.
By the time Ike appointed him, he was long past the practice of law, having been a politician for many years.
However, he got his start in politics as District Attorney of Alameda County. He served three four-year terms, starting in 1925, after which he graduated to California Attorney General in 1938, followed by Governor for three terms. He lost out as Dewey's VP in 1948 (they were ahead in the polls).
In 1953, Eisenhower appointed him Chief Justice.
I heard DJT specifically state that he will select SC judge nominees ONLY from the 20 names in his published list of SC candidates.
I don’t recall seeing Thiel’s name on this list.
Therefore, the article is disinformation.
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