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Posted on 01/28/2018 7:15:00 PM PST by mairdie
Whispers are rampant throughout D.C. that a vacancy is imminent on the U.S. Supreme Court - one that is currently taken by one of the most liberal members of the Court.
It has the Trump White House giddy over the prospect of potentially and forcefully shifting the balance of power on the Court while Democrats in Congress are said to be warning White House staff of a prolonged and brutal fight should President Trump attempt to replace a liberal Justice with a hardline-conservative nominee.
The reason for the Justice's alleged departure is said to be "ongoing illness/physical limitations."
The first on the Court that comes to mind given those clues is 84-year old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Justice Ginsberg has visibly slowed down a great deal in recent years, and has been prone to falling asleep in public, even when on the bench. Ginsberg's office has taken to pushing back on rumors of her health issues via a series of left-leaning media publications, but Court watchers have noted Ginsberg's increasingly limited public schedule of late.
Despite his 79-years, Justice Stephen Bryer's place on the Court apparently remains secure, but not so with two others - swing-vote Justice Anthony Kennedy, 81, and liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor, 63.
Justice Kennedy, a moderate liberal (or moderate conservative depending on who you talk to) has already hinted at possible retirement, so he is not the likely source of the current Supreme Court rumors. Justice Sotomayor, though, despite being among the Court's younger members, is said to be struggling greatly with her workload as she deals with a worsening diabetes condition. Court watchers have noted a visible decline in just the last year where she appears to have aged ten years. Rumors are also swirling regarding staff having to take up an increasing workload for the ailing Sotomayor who is said to have difficulty maintaining her train of thought for more than short periods of time. And like Ginsberg, Sotomayor's staff is working hard to orchestrate a media-driven narrative to counter rumors of her decline.
Here is the thought that is now keeping the far-left elites up at night. Justice Kennedy might very well be preparing for retirement. That would be one Supreme Court vacancy. And if the rumors of ill health regarding Ginsberg and Sotomayor are in fact true, that could be two or even THREE vacancies on the Court for Trump to fill within the next year or two.
Several "dark sourced" rumors Sotomeyer is long beyond insulin and other injections to control. She's in real trouble. Although I am opposite to her political bias I could never want such a horrid thing upon her.
I feel for Sotomayer. If she’s got a pancreatic condition of any kind, it is horrible. Nothing you’d wish on anyone.
As such, she’s in my prayers.
As one who has witnessed and benefitted from several real miracles in my life, I believe nothing is past God.
As for Kennedy, he’s done enough damage for a lifetime. Ginsberg has as well.
If the rumors about Scalia are true, then this is some pretty massive karma.
The reason I like the website is because I know no one in DC, and DCWhispers, while anonymous, seems connected into the gossip circle. And, like childhood gossip games, those pieces of information CAN be wrong OR right. But they’re from closer to the source of the rumors than what I can get. So you take it for what it’s worth, which is just keep it in the back of your mind and see if anything else connects with it later.
Reminds me of the fateful braggadocio about Titanic ... foolishness about the inability of even The Divine to take her to the bottom.
Hanging in out of spite for smacks of a bid for membership in the "how bad people die" genre.
Amen.
Trump will get 3 more in the next 7 years. Winning is a generational thing!
“Ruth Bader Ginsberg is one of the most, if not the most, liberal, leftist people currently on the supreme court.”
Yes she is. Not just currently - ever. Do you know how many Republicans voted against her?
Does Kagan still have a baby’s high chair in court?
Zero?
3
Darn!
I was close, though...
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How will the new socialist senator from Alabama vote?
Nixon’s had to get his through a far left senate. He only got one conservative, with one moderate conservative, one moderate liberal and one extreme leftist, who wrote Roe vs Wade.
That’s a valid confusion that’s all my fault as I didn’t make clear that I was not using the terms in the political sense but the intellectual.
Sandra Day and Kennedy are two liberals, intellectually, who come to mind.
I’m convinced that planned attempts on Trump’s life would escalate exponentially if he replaced even one hard-core lefty on the court, much less 2 or 3.
Pray for the sharpness of the Secret Service as well.
And since we have one fewer senator from Alabama, it will be all the harder for Trump to confirm a real constitutional conservative.
We really have a pyrric majority.
Hate to be cynical but even if we get a couple more judges we can’t rely on them at times.
more like realistic, I fear.
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