Posted on 06/30/2018 8:56:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Donald Trump is driving to execute the same playbook in selecting a new Supreme Court nominee that last year delivered swift confirmation of Justice Neil Gorsuch, following a methodical course in hopes of avoiding the lurching disorder that so often engulfs his White House.
As Trump looks to reorient the nation's high court with a replacement for retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, he has left himself little room for improvisation - in part because he has delegated and outsourced much of the spadework.
Using Gorsuch as a model, the president has said his next nominee will be chosen from a preselected list of 25 candidates, most of them already fixtures on the federal courts who have been subject to public and internal vetting.
The interview process for a half-dozen or so finalists is beginning, including private sit-downs with Trump starting this weekend at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf course, as well as sessions with White House Counsel Donald McGahn and formal FBI background checks. An announcement date has also been set: July 9, the first Monday after the July 4 holiday and the day before Trump jets to Brussels for a week-long European trip....
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Americans will now be assaulted by liberal’s visceral stupidity.
That Trump somehow needs to balance the Gorsuch pick, with someone to emulate swinger Kennedy.
QUESTION: Did the vengeful Obama lighten up on the liberal pedal after giving us the execrable Sonia Sotomayor in 2009?
ANSWER No. Obama stuck it to America, doubling down with his pick of boy/girl Elena Kagan the following year.
DEMOCRATS NO LONGER BOTHER TO HIDE THEIR STUPIDITY-—
There was no reason for Democrats to attempt to filibuster the Gorsuch nom. They knew it would lead to the full “nuclear option” they, themselves, put into place.
They were then in the (cough) majority, believing Obama’s BS WRT a permanent Democrat majority.
Their actions were predictably stupid led on by an even stupider Democrat president.
When President Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to replace Antonin Scalia, Democrats had a choice:
verbally oppose the nom, but allow the confirmation, or, go nuclear to appease their rabid liberal/progressive base.
They chose the latter, effectively leaving them sitting on the minority sidelines in any future USSC noms.
“The interview process for a half-dozen or so finalists is beginning, including private sit-downs with Trump starting this weekend...”
The interview process for a half-dozen or so finalists is beginning
All for show and politics, the decision has been made.
including private sit-downs with Trump starting this weekend
All for show and politics, the decision has been made.
It’s Thomas Hardiman.
There is no such thing as a ‘radical conservative.’
Another strategy is to nominate the most coservative woman on the list. She will not be turned down by the current Republican Senate.
Then believing there will be a second opportunity, nominate the most conservative candidate on the list. RBG female slot is replaced before she resigns. Her actual replacement thus does not need to be a woman.
Having stated that scenario, I have no clue what the President and his crew are planning
“Is this what happens when theinitial chsrges by the msm of gross incompetence dissipate due to being at variance with facts as measured by results?”
it certainly looks that way ...
“If trump was incompetent as iirc the msm initially maintained, then liberals woul imho have nothing to fear from 4 years of his presidency. What am i missing...”
what you’re missing is that the fake stream media believes we American voters are stupid and are incapable of simple analytic thought, probably because they hang out only with other fellow leftists, who in fact, as a class, are woefully ignorant of almost everything and also in fact ARE incapable of simple analytic thought ...
PLENTY, and the Dems already have the SEX charges BIMBO’s waiting to testify.
This would be a WIN-WIN for President Trump. Leaves Cruz back in the Senate as a conservative voice too.
Sen. Mike Lee and brother, Thomas Lee, both being considered to replace Kennedy on Supreme Court
Thomas Lee Utah Supreme Court Justice, their father was Rex Lee, President Reagan’s Sol. General.
Utah: ASSOCIATE CHIEF JUSTICE THOMAS R. LEE
ASSOCIATE CHIEF JUSTICE THOMAS R. LEE
Thomas R. Lee was appointed to the Utah Supreme Court by Governor Gary Herbert in July 2010. He currently serves as Associate Chief Justice and as a member of the Utah Judicial Council. He also chaired the Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on Professionalism and Civility during a time in which the court promulgated Standards of Professionalism and Civility for judges in Utah. Justice Lee is a graduate, with high honors, of the University of Chicago Law School. After law school, he served as a law clerk for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, III, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and then for Justice Clarence Thomas of the United States Supreme Court. Justice Lee then joined the law firm now known as Parr, Brown, Gee & Loveless, where he became a shareholder. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Justice Lee was a full-time professor at the law school at Brigham Young University, where he continues to serve as Distinguished Lecturer. During his years as a full-time law professor, he maintained a part-time intellectual property litigation practice with Howard, Phillips, & Andersen. He also developed a part-time appellate practice, arguing numerous cases in federal courts throughout the country and in the United States Supreme Court. In 2004 - 05, Justice Lee served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. 1/15
If they are Constitutionalists it doesn't matter, we already know how they will rule.
LOL...good point, but to THEM, we are ALL radicals!
I am okay with that!
They’re all “constitutionalists.” That’s how the foreign minds get in to our Supreme Court; they’re the same European minds of religious tyranny that American families in the American Revolution moved here to get away from.
It reminds us of the situation for billions of people in countries far to the south. They’re all refugees needing asylum. That’s how enemies of American culture get in.
And Collins and Murkowski are their gate keepers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_affiliation_in_the_United_States_Senate#Catholic
I mean real Constitutionalists, not the namby pamby or dishonest types.
You have a real defeatist air about you.
But when I asked if she thought it necessary for the general public to own assault weapons, she responded unequivocally: "I do not see the need for a resident of the United States to have an assault weapon."
Cases Involving Race
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In late 2008, O'Connor said she believed racial affirmative action should continue to help heal the inequalities created by racial discrimination.
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Abortion
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O'Connor allowed certain limits to be placed on access to abortion, but supported the fundamental right to abortion protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In Planned Parenthood v. Casey, O'Connor used a test she had originally developed in City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health to limit the holding of Roe v. Wade, opening up a legislative portal where a State could enact measures so long as they did not place an "undue burden" on a woman's right to an abortion. Casey revised downward the standard of scrutiny federal courts would apply to state abortion restrictions, a major departure from Roe. However it preserved Roe's core constitutional precept: that the Fourteenth Amendment implies and protects a fundamental right to control the outcomes of one's reproductive actions. Writing the plurality opinion for the Court, O'Connor, along with Justices Kennedy and Souter, famously declared: “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life. Beliefs about these matters could not define the attributes of personhood were they formed under compulsion of the State.”[66]
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Foreign Law
O'Connor was a vigorous defender of the citing of foreign laws in judicial decisions.[67]
Seesh, go do your ‘There is no hope let’s all commit suicide’ elsewhere.
Jim Rob posted as much some years back.
I have to dwell on that for a little bit...
The obvious advantage is that it takes liberals like Collins and Murkowski and forces their hand.
Glad the objective information in my comments touched a libelous, liberal nerve.
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