Posted on 07/03/2018 7:57:30 AM PDT by nikos1121
Amul Thapar: Trump Country's Perfect SCOTUS Choice President Trump — already a conservative hero for appointing Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court and for his swift remaking of the federal appellate courts — can again make history by choosing Judge Amul Thapar of Kentucky to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. Thapar, the son of Indian immigrants who came to America legally, is the product of public schools in Toledo, Ohio. He was the first ever judge of South Asian descent appointed to the federal bench and would be the first person of any Asian heritage appointed to the Supreme Court. Thapar is a history-making choice for a president who loves to make history. Trump often zigs when other presidents would have zagged, as the Washington Post noted this weekend, and he can again defy “the swamp” by appointing someone like Thapar who is squarely from outside of it. For conservatives, Thapar is a dream choice. He’s an originalist, a term associated with Justices Clarence Thomas, Gorsuch and the late Antonin Scalia. Imagine a Supreme Court where the two leading conservative originalists are an African-American and an Indian-American. Trump can absolutely shatter the stereotypes liberals throw at Republicans by having Thapar join Thomas to defend and indeed crusade for the U.S. Constitution.
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McConnell’s pick, no thanks.
President Trump could nominate Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, or Martin Luther King, and the left would do everything in their power to destroy them.
This sounds awesome. With his top few picks, I’m not sure if the degree of resistance even matters, I think it will be high, but they will look pretty crappy if they fight someone like this.
Nice —(but I hate the tie).:-)
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Yep, just what we need, another “firstie” so we can check ff another box...
Anyone remember Sandy Day O’Connor and what a monstrous disappointment SHE turned out to be?
No. And even so, in the Leftist world, there are not just minorities, but a hierarchy of minorities.
Here’s a likely order, but could change around some of these:
Gay
Transgender
Illegal Hispanic Alien
Black
Illegal Alien Third World (non-Hispanic)
Native American
Muslim
Non-European in general
Women
Atheists
Asians
Poor
White
Males
Christian
Catholic
Protestant
Evangelical
I don’t know about that, but if true that makes it an even better choice.
I'd settle for two Ruth the Badger Ginsburg and that wise Latina broad...
I don’t know him, but the fact people call him an “originalist” is very positive.
I don’t like people who are described as “Catholic,” “Progressive” or “Conservative” or by another label, or those who are identified on one issue
Follow the Constitution, as written. That all that’s needed.
Early life and education
Thapar was born in Troy, Michigan. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Boston College in 1991 and a Juris Doctor from UC Berkeley School of Law in 1994.
Career
Private practice
Thapar was a law clerk to S. Arthur Spiegel of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio from 1994 to 1996, and then to Nathaniel R. Jones of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 1996 to 1997. He was an adjunct professor in the University of Cincinnati College of Law from 1995 to 1997 and from 2002 to 2006.
Thapar was an attorney in the law firm of Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. from 1997 to 1999. He was a trial advocacy instructor in the Georgetown University Law Center from 1999 to 2000. He was an Assistant United States Attorney of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Washington, DC from 1999 to 2000. He was general counsel to Equalfooting.comfrom 2000 to 2001. He returned to private practice at the Squire, Sanders & Dempsey firm in Cincinnati, Ohio from 2001 to 2002.
United States Attorney[edit]
Thapar returned to the U.S. Attorney’s Office as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of Ohio from 2002 to 2006, and was the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 2006 to 2007.
While an Assistant U.S. Attorney, he was appointed to the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC) and chaired the AGAC’s Controlled Substances and Asset Forfeiture subcommittee. He also served on its Terrorism and National Security subcommittee, Violent Crime subcommittee, and Child Exploitation working group.
Thapar also led the Southern Ohio Mortgage Fraud Task Force, which successfully prosecuted approximately 40 perpetrators of mortgage fraud. He led the successful investigation and prosecution of a conspiracy ring to provide illegal aliens with fraudulent driver’s licenses...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amul_Thapar
Boston College, Berkley, George Town.....Almost as bad as it gets
Demographically speaking, the liberals should not be in any position to do a Bork job on him. Wassa matter, you got something against dark-skinned persons of Eastern Asia descent?
Cuffing hypocrites. And racist too.
Confirmed 52 to 44 votes when appointed by Trump. On party lines!!!! Not one democrat voted for him.
I want a clear public commitment that he will stop abortion on demand!! I don’t see that.
Boston College is excellent.
No, this guy is the real thing. He’s been around the block, much more than some of the others. The fact that not one democrat voted for him shows he’s the real deal.
That is a good point. But the Dims will conveniently attack any ethnicity (Clarence Thomas) if it doesn’t line up with their ideology - they would do everything to make people forget he would be the first Indian American on the court, whereas if he were a Lefty, their cries would be, “Confirm him or you must be racist!”
Yeah, and he’ll get Borked for sure.
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