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Anthony Kennedy Retires From Supreme Court, McConnell Says Senate Will Move Swiftly on a Replacement
NY Times ^ | June 27, 2018 | NY Times

Posted on 06/27/2018 5:22:06 PM PDT by Innovative

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To: Innovative

Justice Kennedy might have killed any remaining chance of a “blue wave.” The red=state Democrats are between a rock and a hard place. Either they follow their party and vote no (and it hurts them at the polls with the Trump Democrats) or they vote for the nominee and tee off the Democrat base, who are already calling of for the nominee’s head, and we don’t even have a nominee yet.

Either way, they’re going to lose some voters they need.


61 posted on 06/27/2018 7:37:11 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: laplata

SCOTUS appointments seem to be the only thing that excites Ditch.

Things could be way worse.


62 posted on 06/27/2018 7:40:38 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: rktman

“Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.


63 posted on 06/27/2018 8:20:12 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: snarkytart

BINGO !!! That was a big big mistake. The chicken came home to roost.


64 posted on 06/27/2018 8:22:48 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Paladin2

That’s true.


65 posted on 06/27/2018 8:23:20 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Innovative

The democrats will accuse every potential nominee of being a nazi and a racist and every other derogatory name they can think of..
You all know they will.

There will be more Justices retiring soon. I cannot imagine Ginsburg lasting very long.


66 posted on 06/27/2018 8:25:13 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: KavMan

I’m thinking ol’ Curtis will be looking for a job soon. Some things are not walk backable.


67 posted on 06/27/2018 8:29:04 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: FreeReign

[ Looking at that video, maybe it’s his wife who is pissed, and the turtle is just doing what she is telling him to do. ]

If that’s the case I say stay after him, Mrs. McConnell.

Nuke in a pro-2A, pro-life conservative.

Liberal heads will explode even more. That will send them a message. They will go cuckoo, of course.

It’s all good, though.


68 posted on 06/27/2018 8:52:40 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: minnesota_bound

Alan Dershowitz said this morning that, depending on whom President Trump nominates to take Kennedy’s seat, he expects Ginsburg to retire immediately afterward, because she knows her decisions would be futile and doesn’t want to be continuously on the losing side of things. That would be sweet.


69 posted on 06/27/2018 9:35:02 PM PDT by raisetheroof ("To become Red is to become dead --- gradually." Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
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To: Innovative

Kennedy deciding to retire was a pleasant surprise. I truly hope Trump’s next pick is as good as Gorsuch. Sometimes justices betray the nation. Roberts sure was a disappointment. O’Conner was as well. Kennedy was a wild card, you never knew which was he would vote a lot of the time. Of those three, Reagan appointed two of them. I truly believe God intervened in the election and changed the hearts of some people behind the voting booth curtain. Trump could possibly get anywhere from 3 to 5 justices to appoint depending on how long he is president and how many others retire or pass on. Trump may shape the Supreme Court for a generation or more.

I fully expect Ruth Bader Ginsburg to do her best to hold on until Trump’s gone, but I doubt she will be able to. She’s over 80. She’s had cancer twice. There may come a time when she has no choice but leave the bench.


70 posted on 06/27/2018 10:56:12 PM PDT by Vaden (First they came for the Confederates... Next they came for Washington... Then they came...)
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To: Innovative
The turtle 🐢 WILL deliver before November.
71 posted on 06/28/2018 12:29:51 AM PDT by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
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To: KavMan

The voters definitely will not forgive if the President’s nominee is not immediately confirmed. The voters are exhausted with what is going on in this country and are sick of it.


72 posted on 06/28/2018 1:49:48 AM PDT by jazzlite (i)
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To: Bonemaker

...”I hope he gets Kentucky, Appalachia, ridge runner, red neck pissed at these bastards. It will suck to be them.”...

Problem is that there are too few of them left. The cities of Lexington and Louisville are filled with people who have moved in from the most liberal places in the nation, not to mention the world. Lexington is a LGBT haven and houses some very rich people. The college professors and school teachers are, for the most part, just as leftist as others across the nation in government run schools. So, KY has been identified as a good place to live in peace, so far. But, that may not last if it’s politics go the way of the Northeast and California as car licenses on the streets of KY are beginning to imply. Too bad.


73 posted on 06/28/2018 1:58:47 AM PDT by jazzlite (i)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I’d be surprised if Trump didn’t already have his top nominee ready for announcement on Monday.


74 posted on 06/28/2018 2:17:47 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: snarkytart

Good idea - Maxine and company may be doing us some real benefit....


75 posted on 06/28/2018 2:56:18 AM PDT by trebb (Too many "Conservatives" who think their opinions outweigh reality these days...)
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To: jazzlite

For sure the liberal tumor is spreading to the more pristine areas of the country and has been for years. The foci has been northeast and California coast. An especially virulent strain. I remember these in-your-face bastards with blaring bumper stickers “PROUD TO BE AN ARIZONA DEMOCRAT”. Makes you sick.


76 posted on 06/28/2018 5:52:06 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Innovative

Yes but can he get the murkowski/ Collins wing to behave? There will be no democrat help on this one and we only have 50 votes assuming McCain stays in Arizona.


77 posted on 06/28/2018 6:00:26 AM PDT by Mom MD ( .)
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To: Susquehanna Patriot

Collins will never willingly vote for the 5th pro life supreme. Nor will some of the other republican traitors. This will be a fight. I hope McConnell has the skill and will to win it


78 posted on 06/28/2018 6:04:59 AM PDT by Mom MD ( .)
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To: LS

Thanks. I enjoy your posts.


79 posted on 06/28/2018 6:13:34 AM PDT by Qwackertoo (Worst 8 years ever, First Affirmative Action President, I hope those who did this to us SUFFER MOST!)
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To: arrogantsob

You’re right, except “moving fast” in DC is not like moving fast in most places around the country. I don’t think that’s even debatable. They’re just on a different timetable than the rest of us.


80 posted on 06/28/2018 6:26:22 AM PDT by tenger (If we don't stay on 'em, they'll get it wrong. - Joe Soucheray)
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