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:
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I’ve believed this for a very long time. He would make a great pick. I would also like to see a non-lawyer on SCOTUS.
NO WAY!!! He belongs where he is, and the GOP socialists would never confirm this stalwart Constitutional patriot.
CRUZ needs to clarify his position on IMMIGRATION & the WALL.
Trump produced a list of people he would pick from for SC appointments. He said all of the picks would come from that list. Ted Cruz is NOT on the list.
WTF is so hard to understand about that? Do people have rocks between their ears?
who’s on the list? post it here.
I respectfully disagree. Any person who has so very little respect for the United States Constitution as Senator Cruz has demonstrated should not be permitted to get anywhere near the judiciary, imho. He usually talks a very good talk, but doesn’t walk his act at all (as witness his presidential candidacy). (Flame suit is ON! But there it is, my opinion and its worth maybe as much as you paid for it....smile smile smile)
Cruz has proven that he can not be trusted to uphold the law. He is still lying about being a NBC.
Yup
Question: did Pres Trump say that the list was for every vacancy he would fill or was the promise only for the Scalia seat? I am asking because I cannot remember.
You can find the list in about two seconds on google.
I believe and trust that Senator Cruz would make a great Justice. I would rather see someone else leave than Kennedy though.
No, after the campaign and lying about Trump, and the dirty tricks. He’s not a person I want as a SCOTUS justice.
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Massive need for CDS vaccine....
He's not a team player. And I think he'll butt heads with Roberts to prove he's better than Roberts.
No thanks Ted.
Hmmm. Not so much.
Cruz may well be a brilliant legal scholar, but there are plenty of equally intelligent legal minds out there without the baggage of the campaign.
I am not sure Cruz would be able to put that behind him and vote dispassionately.
The list is still likely the same, and if it grows I doubt new names would be any different than the ones on his first list.
Really?
So we are to believe after nearly 30 years of violent lawless open borders which left a landscape of hundreds of thousands of murdered, injured, maimed, robbed, looted Americans, Mr. Cruz still needs to clarify his position on this?
This is almost like we are drifting back into pre-Trump era bull s**t, business as usual, corrupt politics.
Ted will not be a SC justice. He soiled that nest.
It was for all of them, IIRC.
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