Posted on 01/31/2017 7:48:53 AM PST by Cheerio
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump was set to unveil his pick for a lifetime job on the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday as Democrats, still fuming over the Republican-led Senate's refusal to act on former President Barack Obama's nominee last year, girded for a fight.
Trump said on Monday he would reveal his choice to replace conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February 2016, at the White House at 8 p.m. on Tuesday (0100 GMT on Wednesday). The court is ideologically split with four conservative justices and four liberals, and Trump's pick is expected to restore its conservative majority.
Three conservative U.S. appeals court judges appointed to the bench by Republican former President George W. Bush were among those under close consideration.
They are: Neil Gorsuch, a judge on the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; Thomas Hardiman, who serves on the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; and William Pryor, a judge on the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Under the Constitution, a president's Supreme Court nomination requires Senate confirmation.
Democrats remain enraged over Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's refusal last year to allow the Senate to consider Obama's nomination of appeals court Judge Merrick Garland for the vacant seat, an action with little precedent in U.S. history.
I would SO love him to pick Cruz.
Whaaa? Both parties have always waited out election season confirmation hearings. What the hell - more fake news.
All this fake outrage and fake news will give R 60+ in the Senate in 2018. HA HA
Rope a Dope ensues. It will be interesting to see if the level of “rage” over the immigration EO subsides and transfers to the Supreme court nominee...or not. This is like the biggest psychiatric experiment in history as it is possible to document all the liberals losing their minds. Trump is smart and will shuck and jive from here on out to keep the mediots off balance. they’re already very unbalanced.
Is this article really referring to Kennedy as "conservative"?
You ever notice how "conservative" justices will sometimes break on major issues (Kennedy on gay marriage; Roberts on Obamacare), but the liberal justices are always 100% in lock step on everything?
Democrats don’t know who the pick is — but they do know that they will fight against the nomination.
Tells you everything you need to know about the divisiveness and who causes it.
“McConnell better be up for the fight, OR STEP ASIDE “
How is McConnell still majority leader?
“I would SO love him to pick Cruz.”
Trump doesn’t pick the GOP leaders in the House and Senate. They are elected by their own membership. McConnell apparently has the support of over 50% of the Republicans in the Senate. Apparently they are happy with his agenda and the way he conducts business.
Same with Ryan in the House.
Didn't the Democrats tell us last night they were going to be reasonable...
Democrats consider backing off big battle over Trump's Supreme Court pick
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3519512/posts
They lied?... this is terrible. /s
I mean for SCOTUS.
Smart...yes...would he be a good judge....He has no history...
>> Democrats don’t know who the pick is — but they do know that they will fight against the nomination.
Not quite true. Merkley said he would support Garland. Good luck with that.
Smart and, IMO, would adhere to the constitution. That’s all I ask. Well, that and the ability to persuade the other judges.
That’s because Trump is smart enough not to tell any republicans who the nominee will be so they can’t leak it to their commie dem buddies. Previously the opposition research would be full bore by now.
“As Republicans think of new ways to cave”
McConnell is where he is because Senate GOPers want a weak leader.
He could have planned to name Hillary and they STILL would be planning a fight...
I guarantee that Chuckie Schumer has a statement all prepared, regardless of who is named. It's will be full of words and phrases that include "extreme," "out of touch," "unqualified," and "dead on arrival."
Schumer and the Democrats will form the narrative later as they attempt a character assassination and a derailment of the nominee.
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