>> Gorsush is a RINO from Boulder, CO.
Kavanaugh was a self-professed beer-swilling frat boy.
Coney is NOT from a Catholic cult as was reported in the MSM, but an ecumenical Christian cult. Ecumenicals are inherently liberal. <<
Well, the only Trump SCOTUS nomination I outright “hated” was Gorsuch (and even there, I correctly predicted he’d be a Sandra Day O’Connor type justice instead of making hysterical claims he’d be a Souter type leftist). It seemed like I was the LONE voice of sanity on FR at the time of his appointment… as I recall, 95% of FReepers were having orgasms over Gorsuch’s appointment and laughed off that there was ANY possibility whatsoever that he would be anything less than Scalia 2.0. Impy says he chalked up my vehement opposition to Trump to the fact that I was a die-hard NeverTrumper during the 2016 primaries, which is silly. Trump turned out to be FAR more conservative than I expected on other issues, and I said so at the time. IF Trump had ACTUALLY nominated a “pro-life judge in the Scalia mold”, I would have said so and gladly admitted I was wrong and shouldn’t have doubted it. I opposed Gorsuch because he was a godawful pick, not because Trump was the one who appointed him (I actually SUPPORTED the vast majority of Trump nominees, only opposing RINOs like Gorsuch and that creep Rex Tillerson). If Reagan had appointed him, I’d oppose him too. I would have voted AGAINST the appointment if I was lone GOP Senator to do so. Replacing Scalia with Gorsuch moved the court significantly to the left.
I was “hold your nose and vote Kavanaugh” at the time of his appointment, thinking there was a slim hope he’d be an improvement over Anthony Kennedy. I think the jury is still out on that one. But I certainly wasn’t happy with the appointment, as others have noted he is way too much of a Bushie, beltway insider status quo guy, and frat boy. It was weird how the Dems decided THIS particular appointment was the hill to die on and decided to portray the guy as a serial rapist and dedicated their careers to doing everything possible to destroy him (and amusingly, failing miserably to do so). Of course, our side reacted with the opposite extreme and put out propaganda about what an amazing constitutionalist he was. As I said at the time, the pre-scripted talking points BOTH sides had ready to roll out for WHOEVER Trump appointed got very tiresome. Trump could have nominated Chelsea Clinton to SCOTUS and the Dems would reply that she is a far-right ideologue “outside the mainstream” who hates blacks and gays and wants to “roll back women’s rights 50 years”, and the GOP would reply that she is a “brilliant legal scholar and loving mom who believes it is the job of judges to interpret the law as written and not legislate from the bench”. Yawn.
UNLIKE Trump’s first two SCOTUS picks, Amy Coney Barrett appeared to be the LONE Trump SCOTUS nominee who was a sincere strong conservative in real life (and I don’t give a crap if her “judicial philosophy” is “originalist” or not. I want an ACTUAL conservative, not an “originalist”… a term that didn’t even exist before the George W. Bush era, BTW) But as I noted, she wouldn’t have been my pick for SCOTUS (to replace either Anthony Kennedy or Darth Bader), nor would she have even ended up on my “short list” for those vacancies. She had some oddball stuff in her background and I feared she would be an easy target for the RATS to caricature beyond recognition. I was shocked when the RATS DIDN’T put out 24/7 ads on all social media platforms saying stuff like “Radical theocratic right-winger Amy Coney Barrett will vote to ban birth control because she thinks the Virgin Mary tells her to” Who_would_fardels_bear makes an interesting point that Barrett is actually a member of a charismatic/Pentecostal group, a movement in Christianity that has BOTH protestant and Catholic followers, not a specific “Catholic” group per say. They have millions of followers but its definitely not my thing… apparently they believe they are “filled with the holy spirit” and go around “Speaking in tongues” during the service… my dad went to a charismatic mass once and was very uncomfortable during the whole thing. But, meh, who I am to judge? I’m sure they are sincerely moved by the experience. Again, easy way to portray Barrett as a wacko cultist. I do think the only “Scalia-like” thing about her is that SHE is a hardcore devout Catholic, but that doesn’t automatically mean great conservative judge. I like the fact it ticks off BOTH the anti-Catholic bigots on their side AND the ones on OUR side, though. In any case, Barrett is off to a bad start by NOT dissenting on this case. The Texas case was about more than Trump, if the Dems are allowed to get away with stealing this election, we are headed towards banana Republic status.
Rather than “cementing a conservative majority for decades to come”, I fear we are actually back to square one after Trump’s three appointments, and the current ideological makeup of the SCOTUS differs little than it did BEFORE Trump took office. (and it actually ended up considerably to the LEFT of 80s and 90s era Rehnquist court, and was very similar to the Warren Burger era court before Barrett joined) Considering he got THREE appointments during his first term, that is a huge failure, IMO. Trump was very lucky to get 3 appointments in 4 years (Jimmy Carter got zero in that same time frame), and was able to hand-pick whoever he wanted for 1/3rd of the Supreme Court seats. I think history will show that there was one of the weakest areas of the Trump presidency, and he squandered a great opportunity. Those who shrug it off to “well, this just shows Trump needs even MORE appointments, we just gotta wait for a second Trump term and he’ll get three more judges and THEN we’ll have a conservative majority” miss the point entirely. If Trump appointed 3 more SCOTUS judges during his second term that were as “good” as the ones in his first term (let’s say he replaced Clarence Thomas with a socially liberal RINO, replaced John Roberts with another right-of-center squish, and replaced Stephen Breyer with an actual conservative), we’d still be stuck in the same situation.
This is not Trump bashing but a simply reality that we are screwed because of poor decisions about his SCOTUS nominees. One of my favorite conservative Presidents, Calvin Coolidge, had liberal activist Harlan F. Stone as his lone SCOTUS appointee, so it’s a simple reality that just because a President is good, it doesn’t mean his SCOTUS picks are.
It’s not that simple. Trump has to pick justices who will get at least 50 votes in the senate, and you know who they are.
I was suspicious of Gorsuch because of his origins. For a long time Boulder, CO which is solidly liberal would vote a Republican in as their representative. It was a fake way for them to appear tolerant because the Republican they chose was a known RINO. Then one year the RINO decided not to run but failed to send out the memo. The good citizens of Boulder voted Republican as always and ended up choosing a pro-life conservative math teacher. They were so appalled at their mistake that they’ve voted solid Dem ever since.
I was suspicious of Gorsuch because of his origins. For a long time Boulder, CO which is solidly liberal would vote a Republican in as their representative. It was a fake way for them to appear tolerant because the Republican they chose was a known RINO. Then one year the RINO decided not to run but failed to send out the memo. The good citizens of Boulder voted Republican as always and ended up choosing a pro-life conservative math teacher. They were so appalled at their mistake that they’ve voted solid Dem ever since.
I was suspicious of Gorsuch because of his origins. For a long time Boulder, CO which is solidly liberal would vote a Republican in as their representative. It was a fake way for them to appear tolerant because the Republican they chose was a known RINO. Then one year the RINO decided not to run but failed to send out the memo. The good citizens of Boulder voted Republican as always and ended up choosing a pro-life conservative math teacher. They were so appalled at their mistake that they’ve voted solid Dem ever since.
I was suspicious of Gorsuch because of his origins. For a long time Boulder, CO which is solidly liberal would vote a Republican in as their representative. It was a fake way for them to appear tolerant because the Republican they chose was a known RINO. Then one year the RINO decided not to run but failed to send out the memo. The good citizens of Boulder voted Republican as always and ended up choosing a pro-life conservative math teacher. They were so appalled at their mistake that they’ve voted solid Dem ever since.
My conclusion is that 90+% of the law “students” that attend “name” universities are possessed/contaminated/etc.
I’d look for lawyers from more...humble...backgrounds. Well rounded, down to Earth people.
They can’t be much worse than what we currently have.