Report: Justice Kennedy Contemplating Retirement

PJ Media ^ | June 24, 2017 | Rick Moran

[JayGalt]

I looked into John Paul Stevens as well. That is an interesting tale. According to his overall S-C score he was Conservative, however in the 6 areas that are broken out his views before confirmation were decidedly left of midline.

Segal-Cover Score overall ideology 25

A Segal–Cover score is an attempt to measure the “perceived qualifications and ideology” of United States Supreme Court justices. The scores are created by analyzing pre-confirmation newspaper editorials regarding the nominations from The New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and The Wall Street Journal.

Each nominee receives an ideology score that ranges from 0 to 100, with 0 being most conservative and 100 being most liberal. Case issue scores are derived from the Court’s own statements as to what the case is about and are taken from a public policy rather than legal standpoint. For more information, visit Wikipedia’s page on Segal and Cover.

civil rights 64
criminal procedure 66
economic cases 58
federal tax 59
federalism cases 56
first amendment 67
union cases 63

Comparing his score to Roberts and Scalia is instructive:
Roberts
Overall 12
civil rights 40
criminal procedure 28
economic cases 38
federal tax 85
federalism cases 68
first amendment 33
union cases 50

Scalia
Overall 0
civil rights 30
criminal procedure 27
economic cases 41
federal tax 69
federalism cases 51
first amendment 29
union cases 33

[Wally_Kalbacken]

That works for me too. Gorsuch was a superb choice. Having the nuclear option enabled means this is the time to go with someone hardcore, and that means someone who can defend themselves in the confirmation hearings. If from that list, fine. But the choice has to be someone who can defend themselves against the kind of utter crap that the Democrats will be hurling. I’ve already seen Cruz eviscerate Feinstein in hearings, and it was a pleasure. We need someone who, qualified in all other respects, can leave some blood on the walls in the hearing room.

[editor-surveyor]

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[Cen-Tejas]

I reject the whole concept of a “so called” swing vote. I think this is just another Liberal ploy to build one line of defense in case they find themselves where they ARE today.

By arguing some sort of tradition they steal an ounce of credibility that otherwise doesn’t exist. If the American People put a guy like Trump in and he replaces all the Liberals on the courts with Conservatives then hooray! If the libs don’t like it, their ONLY Constitutional solution is at the voting booth! And, without 5.7 million illegal voters!