Posted on 07/10/2018 8:20:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
RE: Amy Coney Barrett would have absolutely failed as a nominee.
He succeeded in becoming Circuit court judge despite all that scrutiny.
And BTW, I’ll be very much mistaken if ACB doesn’t drift left.
re:Am I wrong to think that if RBG bites the dust, Nominating Barrett to replace her would kick off Civil War II? LOL
Nah man, we need to nominate Judge Roy to really get one started ..
RE: And BTW, Ill be very much mistaken if ACB doesnt drift left.
And where in her record as judge tells us that?
Amy Coney Barrett will be RBGs replacement.
Cant wait for it
RE: And the reason for that would be???
She would have been opposed by Collins and Murkowski and there is no way she would have picked up Democratic votes.
Could be, she's already had her name out there so they have a better feel for what to expect from the knee jerk dems. Or simply the Jerk Dems.
She’s an academic, she doesn’t have a trail of decisions we can look at. Dealing with flesh and blood people is very different from dealing with what if questions that don’t actually impact anyone’s lives.
RE: She would have been opposed by Collins and Murkowski and there is no way she would have picked up Democratic votes.
So, let’s always nominate someone who will definitely not be opposed to Roe vs. Wade. Is that what you recommend?
Because as long as these two Senators are in office, you will never get a strong pro-life judge to be in the SCOTUS.
BTW, let me remind you once again, Collins and Murkowski voted to CONFIRM Barret to the Federal Circuit Court. KNOWING where she stands and KNOWING her background. This, DESPITE the grilling she took under Pro-Choice Senators like Dianne Feinstein.
How are these Senators going to justify their voting ‘no’ when they voted ‘yes’ previously?
RE: Shes an academic, she doesnt have a trail of decisions we can look at.
She is NOT MERELY an academic.
She practiced law at Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin in Washington, D.C
She clerked for Scalia himself.
She has been a sitting judge for a year.
And for that matter, Barrett twice received a distinguished professor of the year award, in 2010 and 2016 from Notre Dame for teaching constitutional law.
That’s good enough for me.
There is a big difference between the Circuit Court and the Supreme Court. Would you expect Senators to be willing to confirm a person for the Supreme Court simply because they confirmed them to a lower court?
Well then we agree to disagree
No ... save that powder in case RBG retires/expires. It has the added benefit of causing the lunatic left to self-terminate. If Trump got to replace a woman (RBG) with a woman (ACB) you would need a dump truck to clean the NY sidewalks from jumpers every day.
Well, he isn't the Almighty. He's doing amazing things, far more than any rational person could have predicted, probably saving the Republic entirely... but even he (not He) makes mistakes (and makes deals, too). Sessions was a nice reliable Senate vote until President Trump reassigned him. How'd that work out for everyone? How many weak-kneed appointments have scurried away from the (vicious) Leftist heat so far in just 17 months?
The facts are that Kavanaugh clerked for Kennedy, has deep Bush roots, has said that he'd respect precedent for Roe v Wade, and Traitor McCain is saying glowing things about him. That's enough to make me think our President just replaced a centrist with a centrist. It's still 4/2/3 (L-to-R)... which isn't terrible, but it also isn't a major victory. (The Dems screaming is just to to keep them screaming... about anything ... until at least mid-NOV. Odd how the border kids have suddenly been forgotten, no? Their puppet masters know full well that they cannot handle more than one topic at a time.)
I tend to agree with those who think Kennedy may have retired early on the promise that he could pick the nominee from Trump's List. Another Trump deal-making win, but not a wholesale victory. Some Give had to go with the Take.
I also am concerned about the speculation I saw that Thomas and Breyer might decide to retire together, with Dems reluctantly approving the replacements, but only if Breyer could get the same deal (getting a centrist at best, but that's all the Left can hope for). That would make SCOTUS 3/3/3, even after four Trump appointments. Again, not the worst thing to happen, but also far short of what most of us on the Right might have been dreaming about after 4 replacement picks. I can see the Left going for that.
(Ginsberg stays in place until a Dem is elected, or the Rapture. She will outlast Trump, and possibly even Keith Richards. Her handlers will make sure of it.)
And, if I'm wrong about Kavanaugh, then SCOTUS is further to the Right. A win-win for me, baby! LOL
No, she hasn’t been a sitting judge for a year, only since November 2017.
“Those don’t look like the earmarks of a surefire conservative vote on the SC to me. We’ve been burned repeatedly by “moderate” or “safe” conservative judges who turn out to be big disappointments once confirmed. “
THAT is a judge that I want on the USSC - someone who, as Scalia himself said, rules as the law DEMANDS that he (or she) must, regardless of their own personal opinions or preferences. In fact, Scalia said that it would be unlikely that a good judge (as measured by this standard) WOULDN’T, at some point in their career, rule against their own preferences.
Note that I’m no great fan of the Bush family or their politics, either. However, every once in a while they get something right - remember that Bush the Elder appointed Clarence Thomas. Maybe it’d be a good idea to actually examine people for their record and their character, and not necessarily for their involvement in Republican politics when the only game in town was named “Bush” for about 2 decades?
Hey Frenchie.....Amy will replace Ruth Buzzy Ginsberg! I can’t wait!
Chris Stirewalt IS a MORON and UNWATCHABLE!
I wish it was her too, I have had it with the Yale skull and bones club.
I think LAURA BUSH wanted Harriet Meyers, and W just wanted to please his wife’s request!
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