Posted on 04/22/2017 10:52:23 AM PDT by Starman417
While the chattering class was lamenting the delay on ObamaCare repeal and replace and promised tax reform, they ignored perhaps the most importance consequence of President Trump’s election, a major accomplishment in his first 100 days, the transformation of the Supreme Court into a conservative and constitutional bastion of freedom.
The appointment and confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch has already borne fruit as he cast the deciding vote allowing the execution of multiple Arkansas death row inmates to proceed. As Bloomberg Politics reported:
Justice Neil Gorsuch took his first major action on the U.S. Supreme Court by casting the deciding vote to let Arkansas begin executing a group of death-row inmates.No doubt this marks the beginning of the end for liberal activism and legislating from the bench in the nation’s federal courts, a trend that may accelerate with the possibility of an imminent vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court as hinted by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, at a National Association of Manufacturers event on Tuesday:In a series of orders Thursday night, the high court cleared the state to execute Ledell Lee, one of eight convicted murderers that Arkansas has been trying to put to death before one of its lethal-injection drugs expires at the end of the month. Arkansas executed Lee minutes after the court rejected the last of his requests.
During a visit to Muscatine Tuesday morning, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he expects a Supreme Court Justice resignation within the year.It would seem that “rumored” vacancy might be “swing-vote” Justice Anthony Kennedy, for whom Gorsuch once clerked. As reported by HotAir.com:"I would expect a resignation this summer," he said.
An upcoming resignation has been "rumored," he said, but he did not name a justice. The question was posed to him during a question-and-answer session at Kent Corporation headquarters, by Kent employees, National Association of Manufacturers members and elected officials at Kent Corporation headquarters.
A person would likely be nominated from the same list from which recently appointed Justice Neil Gorsuch was chosen, Grassley said, most of whom he said are well-qualified.
For the past few weeks, rumors have swirled around Washington that swing-vote Justice Anthony Kennedy wants to hang up his robe and ride off into the sunset. He hasn’t interviewed prospective clerks for the next session, and has moved up his traditional five-year summer reunions for past clerks up a year. The New York Times speculated at the end of January that Donald Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch was intended in part to signal to Kennedy that Trump would replace him with a serious jurist.During the transition, among the many somewhat surprising visitors to Trump Tower was Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a former Trump presidential rival with whom unpleasant commentaries were exchanged. Politics does indeed make strange bedfellows and if we have seen anything since November 8 it is that President Trump has proven more magnanimous and less vindictive than both his political opponents and media critics have painted him.
Gorsuch was on the list or 21 names Trump had announced for Supreme Court consideration, a list that made most conservatives ecstatic. Ted Cruz’s name was not, although Cruz ally was on Trump’s short list for SCOTUS Cruz would make a great second pick – a constitutional originalist in the Scalia mode who actually worked with Scalia to save the Second Amendment..
The broad swath of GOP control at all levels of government presents a huge opportunity to, as Trump promised, to drain the swamp. Already we have a very real prospect of repealing and replacing ObamaCare, of enacting pro-growth tax reform, rebuilding the military, securing our borders, and, yes, putting the Supreme Court on the right path for generations.
The prospect of restoring and protecting religious liberty and the Second Amendment and reigning in the regulatory excesses of federal agencies is at hand. Ted Cruz, who campaigned with Vice President-elect Mike Pence for Trump in Iowa, has pledged to work with Trump on Supreme Court appointments, tweeting after their meeting:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
Le Cruz remains a Canadian citizen until he produces a CRBA to verify he is an American citizen who born in Canada.
Le Cruz rejects our sovereign border as he demonstrated during the primaries with “Cheetos Beck”
Le Cruz has supported amnesty via “Pathway to Citizenship”
Not just no to Le Cruz......but HELL NO!
yup, there were distasteful antics during his run for the Presidency. I think Cruz is certainly smart enough, but I hated the Goldman Sachs connection via his wife, and their huge donations to his campaign. He should not have accepted monies from them as it was an obvious ploy for political favors if he was elected. Politics and politicians are a dirty business...some politicians are too open to hand outs. I wish they could come up with some way to elect politicians without millions of dollars having to be spent for them to gain office.
Or here (with details from the Ctrl-Left perspective):
“They are overwhelmingly white, male and middle-aged . . . predominantly red or battleground states . . . the people he has said he will choose from, not just to replace Justice Antonin Scalia but for any other seats that fall vacant . . .”
Kennedy “...hasn’t interviewed prospective clerks for the next session.” Interesting. Had not read that before. Just another reason why I’ve felt for sometime now that Kennedy would step down before Buzzi Ginsburg.
.
Cruz rejected appointment to SCOTUS right at the beginning.
.
.
You have the intellect of a fried sand flea.
.
>>No, after the campaign and lying about Trump, and the dirty tricks. He’s not a person I want as a SCOTUS justice.
*****************************************************
Agree.
That will never happen. AMERICA is ruled by lawyers. Therein lies the problem and it will not change short of a Revolution.Lawyers run the Judicial System from beginning to end with others in between. A LAWYER always has the final say outside of death.
That will never happen. AMERICA is ruled by lawyers. Therein lies the problem and it will not change short of a Revolution.Lawyers run the Judicial System from beginning to end with others in between. A LAWYER always has the final say outside of death.
.
You got it exactly backwards.
It was trump that lied constantly about Cruz, and had his well heeled friends throwing their grossly foul tricks at Cruz.
But then. you almost always get everything backwards here.
Get some counselling soon.
Of course, they would in order to get him out of the Senate. Lindsey Graham has even floated the idea.
http://www.wnd.com/2016/11/lindsey-graham-recommends-ted-cruz-for-supreme-court/
In the Trump era we have the President perpetuating a program of his predecessor he correctly described as illegal that illegally legalizes illegal aliens.
All I care about is if the justice, whomever is nominated will vote Conservative. Who ever. I trust Cruz would vote Conservative.
No
He is blackmailable for at least personal vices
No
Are you serious? He knows more about the Constitution than any other candidate, in fact he is and was one of the few constitutional candidates and fought for strict construction of it harder than anyone else in the Senate..
Oops......I almost forgot about that. Thanks.
“I would also like to see a non-lawyer on SCOTUS.”
I’m with you. There’s nothing requiring that SCOTUS members be attorneys. Seat one person who’s lived a real life provide a different perspective on issues.
If you haven’t already, read:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3546355/posts
then read:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3546377/posts
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.