Posted on 09/20/2020 6:21:38 PM PDT by MagillaX
President Donald Trump is closely considering two conservative women to fill Ruth Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court.
According to people familiar with the process, one of those potential picks is Barbara Lagoa, a seasoned Florida judge with Cuban roots.
Here’s what you need to know about Lagoa: A trailblazer for women and Latinos
A Florida native, Lagoa was the first Hispanic woman to serve on the Florida Supreme Court. If nominated to the nation’s high court by Trump and confirmed by the Senate, she would be the second Latino justice to ever serve. Current Justice Sonia Sotomayor became the first when she was nominated by former President Barack Obama.
If nominated and confirmed, Lagoa would be the fifth woman to serve on the Supreme Court. She's been vetted
Trump nominated Lagoa to serve on 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2019. She was confirmed by the Senate in a bipartisan vote, which could help ease her path to the court if she’s selected by the president again. She could serve for a long while
At 52, Lagoa would be the youngest justice on the Supreme Court, just a few months behind one of Trump’s other nominees, Neil Gorsuch. A lifetime appointment to the court would allow her to serve for decades to come. A deep legal background
After graduating from Columbia Law School, Lagoa worked as a pro bono lawyer for Elian Gonzalez’s family and later as a federal prosecutor. Lagoa then spent more than a decade as a judge on a Florida appeals court before being picked by Gov. Ron DeSantis to serve on the state’s supreme court.
"She has been the essence of what a judge should be,” DeSantis said when he nominated her.
Lagoa is married to Paul C. Huck, an attorney. They have three daughters.
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I think that it is the Never Trump Republicans that are pushing her. And she worked for Charlie Christ. I imagine that hers and Ginsburg’s philosophies agreed on more points than they disagreed.
1) She's a long time member of the Federalist Society
2) She sat on Florida's 3rd Circuit for nearly 13 years before being elevated to the Florida Supreme Court.
3) President Trump nominated her to the 11th Circuit on the recommendation of the Federalist Society.
4 ) The Federalist Society recommended her as a possible pick to replace RBG.
It looks like the Federalist Society thinks highly of her, and she has a roughly 14-year paper trail if there were any serious red flags.
“is Lagoa pro life?”
I wondered as well. According to the following:
“A Barrett nomination would likely be more controversial. Her strong conservative religious views have prompted abortion-rights groups to say that if confirmed by the Republican-led U.S. Senate, she would likely vote to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide.”
https://isp.netscape.com/news/story/0002/20200919/KCN26A0Q7_11
ACB is affirmative action.
“Very good TV presence, great story, very likable. Voting against her or trying to take her down will be to your own political detriment.”
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I see that you’re now off your jihad of spam posting of identical posts saying let’s nominate a “conservative black” woman... without ever naming one. Now you’re all in for Lagoa.
Clicke the link and says site is potential virus?
A lot of Democrats voted for her confirmation. She’s out in my book. We need Amy Coney Barrett ASAP! She survived Feinsteins interrogation in her last confirmation and she can handle her again.
Why are you not for a pure White woman for the position?
Clicke the link and says site is potential virus?
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I got that warning also and backed out.
I’ve not heard anything about 2A rulings which is a huge red flag.
This is a bad choice until someone can prove otherwise.
This woman worked with Charlie Crist. That’s a hard no for me.
District Judge Paul Huck is her father-in-law, not her father. She’s a conservative Roman catholic Cuban -American! She’s a solid pro-life conservative.
I think that’s her father in law....
agreed, ACB or Rushing or Gannt, not keen on this new addition of Lagao, seems establishment had her name ready to throw out there suspiciously soon
I will defer to your wisdom and agree with your assessment. So lets start pushing her.
LOL ... reminds me of the Enquirer front page with Ike shaking an alien grey’s hand.
5) Made a judge by Jeb Bush
6) Marco Rubio currently pushing hard for her
Those two items alone disqualify her ideologically.
And voting against her?
Way to alienate the Hispanic vote. Even further than they already have.
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