Posted on 09/25/2020 1:15:44 PM PDT by springwater13
President Donald Trump intends to choose Amy Coney Barrett to be the new Supreme Court justice, according to multiple senior Republican sources with knowledge of the process.
In conversations with some senior Republican allies on the Hill, the White House is indicating that Barrett is the intended nominee, multiple sources said. All sources cautioned that until it is announced by the President, there is always the possibility that Trump makes a last-minute change but the expectation is Barrett is the choice. He is scheduled to make the announcement on Saturday afternoon.
Barrett has been the leading choice throughout the week, since Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died. She is the only potential nominee known to have met with the President in person, according to two of the sources. One source said Trump was familiar with Barrett already and he met with her since she was a top contender the last time there was a Supreme Court vacancy, when the President chose Justice Brett Kavanaugh instead.
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“How do we know this is not fake news?”
It’s not even news. The article says Trump may appoint her, but he might not.
“...the White House is indicating that Barrett is the intended nominee, multiple sources said. All sources cautioned that until it is announced by the President, there is always the possibility that Trump makes a last-minute change ...”
It’s nothing.
They Hate Trump and the Republican party with unbridled passion. Come to think they Hate American just as much.
Funny how those two things go together.
Praying it will be Sidney Powell!
Very astute observation.
Where do you think you are? This is FR. You dont offer solutions here. Just complaints...LOL
I think he should have gone with Lagoa. Locked up Florida, made the democrats attack a qualified latino woman and look racist and like hypocrites.
But she didn’t have the long track record on abortion the religious conservatives wanted. They would have protested loudly and you don’t want that kind of discord weeks before an election. Either this all works out great or Trump is going down with the Republican ship because a lot of the states Trump needs like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin are historical blue states that lean pro-choice. Emphasizing abortion is very risky. Lagoa had a lot more plausible deniability to keep moderates on board and every well could have voted against roe. She is a lifelong Catholic too.
It’s clear from her Kanter v Barr dissent that she’s pro-2A at some level. I would expect she would uphold Heller and McDonald, for instance.
She does make some concerning ‘public safety’s comments in that ruling, though, and I think she’s definitely a potential squish on something like an AWB, for example.
I consider that to be a negative.
If true this is great news.
That ACB doesn’t need to go through the disgusting trashing by the rats seems to me the best reason - I’m unsure about her being the best choice otherwise.
” Barrett turns off the pro-choice former democrats that voted for Trump in 2016 though. “
How many of them would be voting for Trump anyway?
Not me. But I’m a cradle catholic so I will always love being Catholic til death.
Me too. Seems to be the best choice. IMO concerns about her being another Souter or Roberts completely ignores her and her family’s history. Her father fled Cuba because he refused to take a pledge to the communists in order to practice law. No doubt that her parents’ experience has impacted her.
Fits the Trump style:
Unexpected and Massive
Dims Discombobulated and pushed over the edge into head exploding insanity.
Lagoa has plenty I’d time, she will also be gaining experience as she waits for her turn. Beyer is ancient and Sotomayer has severe health issues.
Trump tends to do what he says he will do. When Kavanaugh was nominated he said he was saving Amy for RBG’s seat. That doesn’t mean he can’t pull a massive surprise, but Amy has already been smeared and hit awfully hard and still stands head up.
I would be ecstatic with any of the finalists.
He’s done this before, then pulled the switcheroo.
If Feinstein questions her religion as “dogma” again, I would say, “Ms. Feinstein, I resent the fact you reduce my faith to ‘dogma’. I demand an apology”.
Barrett could be a decoy. Trump is best at manipulating the media
When confronted with the question, "Have you been a Catholic your entire life?" my answer is, "Not yet."
The Supreme Court's evangelical blind spot
Bonnie Kristian, The Week, September 23, 2020
If President Trump nominates and the Senate confirms Allison Jones Rushing (Amy Coney Barrett since rumored the one), an appeals court judge rumored to be on the short list to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court will get its fourth Baptist justice ever. And the court could use a Baptist, or a Pentecostal, or any sort of evangelical or low-church Protestant at all. Even a Methodist from a church with a band might do.
As it now stands, the Supreme Court's religious composition is very different from that of the country it serves. While we shouldn't expect SCOTUS to be a demographic mirror of America, evangelical representation strikes me as particularly important given the demographic's high engagement with controversial social issues. That is, the value of an evangelical justice is not that she would rule in a specific manner because of her faith, but that she would have an insider's understanding of a shrinking but still significant demographic that figures disproportionately in major cultural battles and is increasingly opaque to the Americans on the other side of those fights.
About two thirds of Americans identify as Christians, and that identification as a cultural marker is what interests me here. It's more about a general vision of the world, habits of mind, and who we view as members of our religious in-group than the state of anyone's soul. Within that majority, evangelical Protestants are the largest sub-group, followed by Catholics, then mainline Protestants. By this measure, evangelicalism claims one in every four Americans — and yet there are no evangelicals on the Supreme Court, nor have there been in decades. (There are also no religiously unaffiliated justices, though another quarter of Americans are "nones.")
After two centuries of dominance by mainline Protestants — overwhelmingly from upper-class WASP denominations like Episcopalians, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians — SCOTUS has become predominantly Catholic and Jewish. Five of the present justices are Catholic (John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, and Brett Kavanaugh). Two are Jewish (Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan), as was Ginsburg.
One, Neil Gorsuch, was raised Catholic (he even attended the same Catholic high school as Kavanaugh), though as an adult he has attended an Episcopalian church without formally joining, which is as close to Catholic as a Protestant can get.
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