Posted on 07/06/2018 9:14:16 PM PDT by conservative98
Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch may have offered a clue about who President Donald Trump will nominate to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, days ahead of the planned announcement on Monday.
In a Friday op-ed article for Deseret News, a prominent newspaper in Hatch's home state of Utah, the longtime Republican lawmaker wrote a defense of the coming nominee amid a highly polarized and evenly split Senate.
"Too much is at stake to allow politics to corrupt the Supreme Court confirmation process," Hatch wrote. "That's why in the coming weeks, I will lift heaven and earth to see the president's nominee across the finish line."
The op-ed was notable for one reason: Hatch referred to the nominee using the pronouns "her" and "she."
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Doubt a final decision has been made. It will be one of the 4.
Amy Coney Barrett!
Maybe. Or maybe a head feint. Regardless, I’ll trust Trump to pick someone good.
I'll get on the Sunday shows and endorse you again, but only if you promise not to run against me for President in 2024. Deal?
BOVINE EXCREMENT!
Screw Hatch.
I fervently hope not.
I like her, but methinks you lose Collins & Murkowski.
DJT keeps his cards close to the vest. I wouldn’t put any stock in his op-ed at all.
P.S. I hope it’s the Indian guy!
I don’t want her either.
I like Amul Thapar,but haven’t heard him mentioned in the rumored finalist selections.
We’ll see!
I like him too.
But if it’s the Indian guy, could he ever rise to chief justice? (get it: indian/chief).
Amul Thapar, would be best candidate to fill position IMO
“...Thapar is known as a great legal writer and a good judge of law clerks, a vital trait for Supreme Court justices. Scalia, Thomas, John Roberts, Anthony Kennedy, and many other top judges have picked his clerks to serve in their chambers.
For an unexpected president, Thapar is the perfect unexpected choice. He’s not from the swamp — he represents Middle America, just like the president. Just as Trump has injected a dose of Flyover Country realism into Washington, so too would Thapar to an institution often associated with coastal elites.
The son of immigrants raised in Toledo, who sits on a federal appeals court that covers the heart of Trump Country (Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and Michigan). A rock-solid conservative and defender of the U.S. Constitution. A conservative jurist who reveres Clarence Thomas. A justice who will be on the Supreme Court for at least 30 years.
The president is looking at a very good list of highly qualified people. He can’t do any better than Amul Thapar...”
This is Hatch simply signaling to Trump that he wants Barrett.
I don’t think that Thapar was in the “FINAL FOUR”; but who knows?
I know,but I hope Trump will surprise us all.
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That’s where I’m at. I’d love it to slap Leftists in the face with, those who have been on the idiotic RACIST drumbeat the hardest. Plus from what I’ve read, he’s a solid choice.
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