Sources Say Trump to Choose Amy Coney Barett for Supreme Court
Source: CNN
President Donald Trump intends to choose Amy Coney Barrett to be the new Supreme Court justice, according to multiple senior Republican sources with knowledge of the process.
In conversations with some senior Republican allies on the Hill, the White House is indicating that Barrett is the intended nominee, multiple sources said.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/25/politics/donald-trump-amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court/index.html
She is 48 Years Old.
maxsolomon
(33,289 posts)They sure have punched us in the face.
Polybius
(15,378 posts)Scary thought.
TomCADem
(17,387 posts)She cautioned against appointments that dramatically shift from a conservative justice to a liberal justice and also against appointing a judge in an election year where there is no bipartisan consensus. Yet, in true right wing fashion, she is happy to collude with Trump for her own personal benefit. In other words, she is corrupt and hypocritical, which makes her a perfect Trump candidate in that she sets forth a rule, then happily ignores it for her own benefit.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court-2016-interview-confirming-justices-election-year/
"Justice Kennedy, you know, the arguments will be that that situation was distinguishable," Barrett said. "The vacancy did not arise in the presidential election year. It arose the year before, in June, when Justice Powell retired. And Justice Kennedy was nominated in November of the prior year. Moreover, he was nominated after Bork's nomination failed and [Judge Douglas] Ginsburg withdrew his nomination."
Barrett also pointed to the drastic shift in the court's ideological makeup that would result if a Democratic president replaced Scalia with a more liberal justice, noting that Kennedy replaced a justice of the same ideological bent.
"Moreover, Kennedy is a moderate Republican and he replaced a moderate Republican, Powell. We're talking about Justice Scalia, you know, the staunchest conservative on the court, and we're talking about him being replaced by someone who could dramatically flip the balance of power on the court," she said. "It's not a lateral move."
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)Not that it really matters.
Fuck Trump.
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)Well, At least I admit that I make them..You know, pencils have erasers, don't they?
And what about the delete key? Who decided that?
Polybius
(15,378 posts)Not sure why, but I am.
AZ8theist
(5,453 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,123 posts)or pass all their time to Senator Kamala Harris. This is not the most qualified candidate, it's the candidate that satisfies the Bible Humpers. This completes the total power grab by Mitch. Don't participate.
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)VarryOn
(2,343 posts)they need to not announce it. Republicans would love to skip hearings altogether and go straight to the floor door a vote.
DFW
(54,338 posts)Everyone who even paid lip service to some other candidate after the nomination was irrevocably going to Hillary,
You have played midwife to Rosemarys baby. Happy now?
StevieM
(10,500 posts)They will blame this situation on Hillary for decades to come. And that is what they wanted most--to have a vehicle with which to lambast her for years to come. The valued that more than the future of our country.
Misogyny runs deep in our society.
To be fair, though, she would have won anyway had it not been for James Comey's repeated illegitimate actions.
rurallib
(62,406 posts)Goodbye Workers rights. Goodbye America.
TeamPooka
(24,220 posts)rurallib
(62,406 posts)Thanks to Crazy Uncle Donny, we can't even get out of our borders.
kairos12
(12,852 posts)Karma13612
(4,552 posts)Go to DC and stand outside the hearings wearing Handmaid Tale outfits.
That would work for me.
And I dont just mean women. I would love to see the guys dress in the stormtrooper outfits for a complete picture. Maybe have a mock stoning....no wait thats a bit OTT.
May the lord open....
bdamomma
(63,836 posts)we don't stop this we will be Gilead. Canada will be "Little America".
jorgevlorgan
(8,286 posts)exboyfil
(17,862 posts)If not all the time. In her questioning she needs to paint what America looks like under a court with Barrett.
Karma13612
(4,552 posts)I will be curious if he can manage to wait until RBG has been laid to rest.
He is pig turd.
bdamomma
(63,836 posts)is a vindictive/vengeful prick. He will be looking over his shoulder many times.
Karma13612
(4,552 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,123 posts)Any hint of moral legitimacy is gone already, and it will be ZERO by December
totodeinhere
(13,058 posts)Especially if they know that Biden will be president they will want one more conservative vote on the Court to thwart President Biden's agenda whenever possible.
cstanleytech
(26,280 posts)totodeinhere
(13,058 posts)I'm not sure if we should go down that road.
cstanleytech
(26,280 posts)we will have problems.
lastlib
(23,208 posts)Create a National Court of Appeals beneath the Supreme Court, with 25 judges. (Pack it with good young progressives.) All appeals from district court and courts of appeal go here.
Strip the Supreme Court of appellate jurisdiction, leaving it with its constitutional original jurisdiction. Long/short, we get the judges, Clarence PubicHair get his nap time, BeerBoy can stay hung over--problems solved.
No constitutional problems. Congress can create any court it wants to, and controls SCOTUS' appellate jurisdiction.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Clarence Thomas was a slap in the face from h.w.bushI
Polybius
(15,378 posts)But I guess he though he would have been reelected, we all did at that point.
BeyondGeography
(39,369 posts)Raven123
(4,822 posts)hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)Since she has agreed to be submissive to her husband because of her religious convictions, it will be him calling the shots anyway. Why not just put him up there?
Good grief, we are going back to the 50s and dont even need a Delorean!
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)cstanleytech
(26,280 posts)to 13 and packing the spots with extremely young progressive judges and are willing to use it if the Republicans go through with ramming through a replacement for RBG.
TheFarseer
(9,320 posts)Too bad James Jones isnt available.
lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)she is a True Believer and will impose her view of Catholic Doctrine on all of us if she is seated.
Not just abortion, but LGBTQ rights, equal rights for women, separation of church and state... all of it.