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Ted Cruz Says Another SCOTUS Vacancy Is Just Months Away
Daily Caller ^ | 02/23/2017

Posted on 02/23/2017 5:00:40 PM PST by Mount Athos

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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I’ve always thought that he believes he is destined to be President, and would turn the Court down.


41 posted on 02/23/2017 5:29:40 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: Mount Athos
This was absolutely the dumbest thing he could ever have said.

Forever tainted. What the hell was he thinking ??

42 posted on 02/23/2017 5:30:01 PM PST by onona (Keeping the faith will be our new directive for the republic !)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress
It has to be Ginsburg
IMHO Kennedy doesn’t retire first; as matters stand this is actually the Kennedy Court. Whatever he rules is the decision of the court, and that has to be heady stuff.

But if Ginsburg were to leave - and be replaced by a good Trump nomination from his list - Kennedy would find himself usually being either the unnecessary sixth winning vote or the fourth vote on the losing side.

So it would not surprise me if a Ginzburg retirement precipitated a Kennedy retirement.


43 posted on 02/23/2017 5:34:21 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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To: x

He is, but that won’t stop him from trying to be in the news.


44 posted on 02/23/2017 5:37:05 PM PST by ASA Vet (Make US Intelligence great again!)
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To: SharpRightTurn

He’s not! Alito is 66 years old.


45 posted on 02/23/2017 5:40:23 PM PST by Hischild
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To: JBW1949

Absolutely.

Help the left vent their anger, stoke their anger and go further left.

We can probably increase our side by 8, maybe more if we get some real momentum nationally and internationally, then we stand a chance of 12.

We lose 2 but, the net gain is where we really clean up, particularly if we grab one more SCOTUS, for a gain of 1.

That brings us to 2020, when the left just goes crazy, whatever that could be .

Nevertheless, we must promote them going batshit and even further left.

If we do it right, 2020 will begin the long search for purpose, as they wander through the desert for 10 years.

I think by 2024, it’s possible to have a super majority in the house and 60-62 Senate.

Combine that with what will, by then , be a gain of 4 SCOTUS and we are saved for the next 100 years.

I’ve been telling my friends:

“Geeze, show me on the doll where the election hurt you”...


46 posted on 02/23/2017 5:48:17 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Sooth2222

I do think it’s Kennedy. That’s this summer. Ginsburg could be any day, any minute. I do think they’ll be three. I’m smiling right now.


47 posted on 02/23/2017 5:48:32 PM PST by Hildy
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To: Mount Athos

The only way those leftist will retire is they will be hauled out


48 posted on 02/23/2017 5:51:46 PM PST by wild74
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To: Mount Athos

If it’s Ginburg, that young woman better be prepared to follow up on her promise to donate her own blood and body parts.


49 posted on 02/23/2017 5:59:36 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Ginsburg recently said she’s staying through next year, but is taking it one year at a time.


50 posted on 02/23/2017 6:21:59 PM PST by henkster
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To: j_guru

Me too. I think Cruz would be a good pick. He was a terrible Presidential Candidate, but could be very good on the Supremes.


51 posted on 02/23/2017 6:23:37 PM PST by IrishRoverMountain
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To: Fai Mao

Alito is going to be 67. I think you mean Byers who will be 79 and a big lib.


52 posted on 02/23/2017 6:29:50 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: IrishRoverMountain

Cruz has already been vetted through the presidential campaign so he would be harder to take out by the screeching libs. He would be great.


53 posted on 02/23/2017 6:30:04 PM PST by pke
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To: Fai Mao
Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. (/əˈliːtoʊ/; born April 1, 1950) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George W. Bush and has served on the court since January 31, 2006.[2]
54 posted on 02/23/2017 6:30:57 PM PST by rfp1234 (DinosorosExtinction)
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To: Vendome

Five in the next four years, including the current one...


55 posted on 02/23/2017 6:33:01 PM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea ((I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders))
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To: Mount Athos

I thought they’d be replacing the eugenicist before the flip flopper.


56 posted on 02/23/2017 6:33:46 PM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: montag813

SB1070 isn’t killed. In fact, it forced the mayor of Phoenix to cite it as a reason why Phoenix will never become a sanctuary city.


57 posted on 02/23/2017 6:34:27 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Rest In Peace MeekMom (1966-2016))
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To: Hischild

“He’s not! Alito is 66 years old.”

Good news. He’s a spring chicken for a SC Justice.


58 posted on 02/23/2017 6:34:30 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: Sooth2222

Gorsuch is supposed to be Kennedy’s replacement. Gorsuch clerked under Kennedy.


59 posted on 02/23/2017 6:37:10 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Rest In Peace MeekMom (1966-2016))
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To: henkster

It’s Anthony Kennedy that is probably the next to retire. Some say he is being strongly encouraged to leave by the Trump administration. He taught me Constitutional Law at the University of Pacific McGeorge School of Law in 1973. He is 80 and has expressed the desire to retire during a Republican administration.


60 posted on 02/23/2017 6:45:27 PM PST by burghguy
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