Posted on 01/23/2019 7:30:47 AM PST by Texas Fossil
The White House on Tuesday announced the re-nomination of 51 federal judicial nominees left over from the previous Congress, kickstarting the administration's effort to install more conservative judges after GOP activists worried that such appointments had stalled.
Nine of the 51 appointments are for spots on prestigious and influential federal appellate benches, including two on the mostly liberal San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which President Trump has often derided as "disgraceful" and politically biased.
Neomi Rao, the president's "regulatory czar," who would take now-Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh's vacated seat on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, is on the list. Case Western University School of Law professor and Washington Post commentator Jonathan H. Adler wrote when Rao first joined the administration that "Trump's selection of Rao suggests the administration is serious about regulatory reform, not merely reducing high-profile regulatory burdens."
Also on the roll was Brian Buescher, for a seat as United States district judge for the District of Nebraska. In December, Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, raised concerns about the Omaha-based lawyer's membership in the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic service organization -- prompting legal commentators to suggest the Democrats were engaging in religious discrimination.
DEMS TURN HEADS WITH APPARENT OBJECTION TO JUDICIAL NOMINEE'S ROLE IN CATHOLIC ORGANIZATION
“The Knights of Columbus has taken a number of extreme positions,” Hirono said in a questionnaire sent to Buescher. “For example, it was reportedly one of the top contributors to California’s Proposition 8 campaign to ban same-sex marriage.”
Harris, in her questions to the nominee, called the Knights of Columbus “an all-male society” and asked the Nebraska lawyer if he was aware that the group was anti-abortion and opposed to same-sex marriage when he joined.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Focused on restoring the rule of law.
How can a position be extreme when it was voted for by the vast majority of the states voters even in a liberal state like California?
Well, both John Fitzgerald and Edward M. “Dead” Kennedy were members of the K of C, so maybe they could just check with Hyannisport about how big a problem this is. Also Sergeant Shriver and Justice Alito.
Trump needs to run on a “Give me back the house (bigly) and a stronger senate majority and I’ll split the 9th Circuit into two (or three) circuits (AZ up to MT plus Eastern and Southern CA as one, WA, OR, AK, HI, Guam and Marianas as a second and Northern and Southern CA (LA and SF Bay area) left as the 9th). That would give California 2 circuits, one the crazy lefties we know now and a new circuit governing from Redding down to San Diego that would be decidedly Conservative. This would put a huge check on what laws stay on the books in Sacramento. Any law they pass could be challenged in Fresno and overturned for at least that part of the state.
Sobering to realize how far we have fallen as a culture when an aspiring Presidential candidate “attacks” a man who holds views essential to the preservation of western civilization as being “extreme”. We once saw the perversion of homosexuality and the horror of abortion for what they were and are: offenses to our own humanity and God. We have willingly, defiantly, become blind to Truth.
A couple of other threads on this topic if anyone cares
to scan the comments on them.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3722066/posts
37 comments
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3722142/posts
22 comments
Not everyone in the U.S. fits into the view of “We” mentioned. But your observations are correct and powerful.
Yes, those are the battle lines.
No doubt you are correct about it.
Now, if the turtle can reduce debate on Judges from 30 to, say, 8 hours, we can get this done!
I’m not a K of C nor am I Catholic, but I have a number of KofC friends who I have know for years and mutual respect is there.
I belong to another “unmentioned” but similar organization that is often targeted.
It should go noted that there are no so called Protestant Christians on the Supreme Court. The reason? Similar targeting by the Left and the entrenched establishment. They feel threatened by such organizations.
If you disagree with the “tolerant” Left, you are immediately labeled “extreme”. When in reality the Left (radical or otherwise) is extremely intolerant of any who disagree with their mantra.
Simply “Do IT”.
Hear that Turtle?
This is going to be a really interesting soap opera!!
p
Or that it has been the unquestioned case without the slightest hint of confusion or doubt for 10,000 out of the last 10,002 years....
If a majority of the state voted for it, can it really be considered "extreme"?
Where is Ann’s tweet about this?
So? When Californians, arguably the most leftist pro-homo state in the nation, actually had a chance to vote on it, they passed Proposition 8 narrowly. It is not an extreme position, it is a mainstream position. This is precisely the reason it had to be imposed on the nation by judicial fiat.
Yes, the courts have been totally rogue a long time.
Flies in the face of the founders documents.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.