Many reasons present themselves as to why the Senate should seat President Trump’s nominee to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as quickly as possible. Heading into an election season without the full complement of justices could prove to be a nightmare scenario. Nobody wants a split decision on the Supreme Court with the election in the balance.
Fox News – “It will be a woman. A very talented, very brilliant woman.” Trump said. “I think it should be a woman. I actually like women much more than I like men.”
The commander-in-chief opened his rally in Fayetteville, N.C., by paying tribute to the late justice, saying “you may disagree with her, but she was a tremendous inspiration to a number of people, I say all Americans.”
Trump told reporters before boarding Air Force One to North Carolina that his pick would likely be announced next week.
Trump said the current situation is different than in February 2016 when a seat was vacated by late Justice Antonin Scalia. “That’s called the consequences of losing an election,” the president said.
He noted her close relationship with late Justice Antonin Scalia, which he called a “powerful reminder we can disagree on fundamental issues while treating each other with decency and respect.”
Trump also asserted his right to nominate a new justice before the election. “Article II of the Constitution says the president shall nominate justices of the Supreme Court. I don’t think it can be any more clear, can it?”
A chant broke out among the crowd multiple times throughout the night: “Fill that seat, fill that seat.”
“It says the president, we’re supposed to fill the seat. That’s what we’re going to do.”
Trump also told the crowd he would now consider his rallies protests. “This isn’t a rally. From now on it’s called a protest,” he said. “Protest against stupidity.”
Trump said that a Supreme Court seat was vacated during an election year or prior to inauguration 29 times throughout history. “Every sitting president made a nomination,” he said.
President Obama nominated Merrick Garland for the seat, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in 2016 used his caucus’ numbers to hold the seat open until after the election. …MORE…
Yes Mollie, thank you for explaining this to the Idiot DIMs yet again. What is this, the millionth time since 2016?
BTW, you can thank The Kenyan (and a whole lotta’ Do Nothing DIMs) for your loss of the House and the Senate during his illicit and ill begotten tenure. You can also blame it on your piece of trash illegal legislation called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. A sad and illegal joke on the stupity of the American people. Thanks ZERO!
In an honest legal system, he, both Clintons, Holder, Jarrett, Comey, Brennan, Strzok, Page, Weissmann, McCabe and a host of other Dim criminals would be sitting in the Colorado Supermax, never to see another day of freedom again.
I prefer them at the bottom of the sea where they claim his bro Osama bin Laden is. Or was that his son. I get confused about that whole “If I had a son…”
Thank you Harmeet! Such an easy concept, isn’t it! Get yourself on the next list please!
The question that should bee asked is why should politics be considered at all with a SCOTUS justice?
You’re absolutely correct: The Supreme Court is supposed not supposed to be political. However, ever since FDR the Democrats have used the courts to achieve via judicial fiat what they could not get through the ballot box, or via legislation. They need a pliant SCOTUS to go along with the judicial dictates they want. A properly functioning court will shut down activism across the nation … which is death to Democrats.
I would pick Harmeet! (Followed her for a long time. She is superb.)
I’m down with that 100%! She’s a warrior for truth and justice.
Yes she is.
https://www.law.virginia.edu/uvalawyer/article/warrior-right%e2%80%99s-rights
Wow.
Tell Mollie no Supreme Court Justices should die or resign during election year.
CC Schoomer.
For all the “I just want the best person, I’m tired of hearing about their gender or race”.
I think it’s pretty safe to assume that everyone on the short list has roughly similar qualifications, history, conservative credentials etc. It’s not like the discussion is pulling a random token minority/woman off the street, these are people that have already passed the preliminary vetting process.
So all things being more or less equal, the “best person” is the one that gives the most political advantage in terms of confirmability and PDJT re-election.
The best person is the one who will follow the constitution and
the rule of law – no social justice or otherwise cretins.
Life is politics. People are manipulatable.
Have to live in the world we live in (to win).
A woman will be chosen to offset the obvious ATTACKS the DEM playbook will utilize.
Offsetting Attacks is the key. I have a feeling Roberts will step down shortly. Let his replacement be done by the correct way you mention. And we return this country to picking people based off of individual qualities and not group ones.
I agree with you – just in this case, politics must be played.
“… a feeling Roberts will step down shortly.”
Still my beating heart! Next week maybe?
Why wouldn’t Roberts be in it for the long haul? I can’t see him stepping down at all. It’s a cushy job you can do long after most people retire.
Not to mention having the summer off, with pay! Tough job, but somebody’s gotta do it.
He’s already eligible now for full retirement. He would get his current salary for the rest of his life. Some $277k per annum.
Agreed. But Antonin Scalia is dead, so we’ll have to make do.
Exactly right!
Not saying that I agree that is how it should be, but that is the political reality.
Politically speaking, that makes sense. But as has been pointed here, the top two women mentioned as being nominated have questionable legal opinions. This pick has to be a Scalia/Thomas/Alito judge, be it a woman or a man.
Picking a female Roberts is not an option just so it might be helpful in the short term politically.
If you haven’t heard him, Mark Levin had a very impassioned speech on F&F this AM. I hope Sundance will have it posted today, he was great as usual.
I caught a small part …hope someone can post that. Levin summed up the current ugly reality, These 4 Republicans could undermine any vote…Mitt Romney of Utah, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, and Cory Gardner of Colorado.
Comrad Collins said no 9.19 Trump twitter slammed Murkowski 9.20. And Mittens is out.
McConnell had better get busy.
Lagoa is the more likely confirmation. After that, given Schumer’s statement about packing the court, Trump should do just that if he gets Congress. 13 is a good number. A future Dem president would have to go to 19.
I have seen posts on other sites from Floridians that Lagoa is a Trojan horse. How can we trust any of them?
I think that’s pretty easy. You toss out everything they “say” and spend the time looking at the historic of what they have done.
No one is perfect… But everyone has a history and in the case of public office that history becomes incredibly valuable.
The reality of the situation is this… All McConnell has to do is put the Senate into recess and Trump can make an appointment.
It’s That simple… However as we should all know from Sundance’s tireless work, trillions and trillions of dollars are at stake here and I’m betting ole Mitch might be happier with a president Biden.
How about a Supreme Court nominee that understands the threat to Liberty and the U.S. Constitution presented by Marxism, Islam, and all other totalitarian, tyrannical ideologies including Globalism?
I thing Trump will choose the second woman pictured – Justice Barbara Lagoa, 52, a Latina from the Eleventh circuit. She’s a late addition to his list. When Scalia passed “under unusual circumstances, Ginsberg said that eight was not a good number.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/rbg-when-democrats-wanted-to-fill-scotus-seat-during-2016-election-year-eight-not-a-good-number.html
The truth is either one of these women will move farther left on the USSC. Gorsuch and Kavanaugh have both went left on some decisions already. True Constitutional conservatives are rare in the higher layers of the justice apparatus. If one did exist that person would not be allowed to be confirmed to the USSC. Justice Thomas is almost a miracle in attaining a spot on the court.
No. We might slow down the leftward move but we won’t stop it. Abortion will be allowed to go on and the destruction of the 2A and free speech will continue. The only answer that might allow for some freedom ultimately is a National divorce. The left cannot be dealt with. The are lost to Satan.
The following is a message from a typical democrat:
That is the definitive results of a ‘liberal leftist’ indoctrination education, Sad.
And here is the scary thought, there are tens of millions like her in America today! All brought to you by socialist educational systems put forward by socialist teachers who were trained in socialist universities. I teach in a university context and I can tell you now that even though we are nominally Christian, our education department is filled with Socialist PhDs most of whom are not even aware of their socialism. They think of it exclusively as social justice. Christianity has then been reduced to that idea. Nobody in our education department sees the socialism behind the idea of social justice.It is a perversion of Christian ideals in the extreme. And it produces nut-bars just like her! Incapable of sound rational thought. Full of rage!
why does she seem to be driving from the left side?
Is she so “leftist” that she buys a leftist car?
Or is she from another country?
Note that the seat belt goes from her upper right to her lower left. She’s definitely in a right-drive vehicle. Maybe its cool for delusional leftists to drive British cars?
Nope, try it yourself. The Camera reverses the Picture.
That’s the way Cell Phone Cameras work. My Wife takes Videos and, they look like this. She is parked when, she does them though.
OK, but let’s admit … when Scalia died in 2016, we all felt exactly the same way. With no confidence the GOP Senate would do what it did.
‘Notorious RBG’ about to be replace by the ‘Virtuous ACB’.
I remember Sandra Day O’Conner. Picking a woman right now is a mistake, just like John Roberts was a mistake. You cannot look at judicial temperament and writings. You have to look at the person and their life, their friends, their hobbies and their business interests.
We need a SCOTUS judge that isn’t averse to hanging a traitor.
We need a SCOTUS judge that understands the threat that Marxism in all of its forms and Islam are to the American Founding.
We need a SCOTUS judge that does NOT bow to the altar of Stare Decisis!
Christopher Landau may be that man but I’m not even sure about him.
Calfcreek. Well said!!! and so very true.
Landau practiced law in D.C. for 30 years. Sigh.
Calf Creek, I agree with you. I would like President Trump to pick a candidate just as you suggested. I wish he had not locked himself into a female last night.
Joe Biden released his top pick for SCOTUS this morning: Ruth Bader Gingsberg. 🙂
This catastrophe was created by the arrogance of RBG. Rather than retire when BHO was president, she postponed and wished to retire under President Hillary with great pomp and circumstance. Didn’t work out so well, did it.
And praise God for her shortsightedness, and that she didn’t retire and let BHO name her replacement. At least now she can be replaced with a conservative…
Hillary selected her while Bill was Pres. Ginsberg wanted to return the favor but it didn’t work out.
As the Yiddish saying goes, “Man makes plans: God laughs.” 🙂
Trump hes been saying that for a long time. Nothing new
Trump has been saying that for a long time. Nothing new
“Nobody wants a split decision on the Supreme Court with the election in the balance.”
Nobody except the Democrats… I predict we will see them trying to undo a Trump victory through the courts, while in the Senate, Dems and RINOs stonewall his nominee to preserve a 4-4 SCOTUS deadlock! Just watch!
Ps. This is the nightmare scenario PDJT needs to present to the American people!
Whoever PDJT picks will be attacked and vilified by a United Left. It will be the Kavanaugh hearing on steroids. Kavanaugh saved himself by his impassioned self-defense. There was no accountability for the many witnesses who, under oath, falsely defamed him.
Going into thIs election, the hearings will be watched by many millions. Among the main judicial qualities used as a filter, President Trump should also consider how well the person will stand up under that onslaught. Will she inspire many to turn against the rabid Leftist mob, exposed by their own venom?
Grace under fire. An ennobling story to contrast with DC’s blood sportsmanship. Righteous indignation to shame those who wrongly attack her.
Those qualities in high DC drama could easily turn hundreds of thousands or even millions of votes. Particularly among women, and, if Lagoa gets the nod, Hispanics.
I remain convinced that, if PDJT wins re-election, it will be with historic gains from among African American and Hispanic voters, which, if emphatic enough, has the potential to destroy or greatly undermine the influence identity politics – the new bigotry – has had on academia and the corporate C suite and HR departments. Greatly set back Marxism’s Long March through our Institutions.
I don’t trust any of the nominees until we see how they vote after confirmed. That is about the saddest thing I can say about who we have as choices for the highest court.
I hope Gorsuch doesn’t continue to be a disappointment. Sorry to say my personal opinion of him was he seemed rather arrogant an attention seeker. Hopefully I’ll be wrong as far as his judgements are concerned which is really the only important thing.
I’m afraid our high hopes for a more Constitutional high court are about to be dashed.
I seldom give in to negativity and even less often do I voice it but I’m bitterly disappointed in the judiciary overall in this country and I hope I’m totally wrong about the future of the high court.
Interesting is that I think Gorsuch has been fine so far, but Kavanough is the one I don’t trust…he reminds me of Roberts.
I didn’t know Harry Solomon from 3rd Rock from the sun had a sister.
LOL
The situation this leaves the Democrap party in is just too good not to be divinely ordained! They are in a double jeopardy. If he nominates a Woman, then the Democraps will be attacking a significant portion of the women’s vote. If they are seen at all to be mistreating her it will come back to haunt them. If the woman happens to be a Latino, then it will be double indemnity for the Democraps!
I see the finger-prints of God all over this situation. God knows what America needs and I believe that through President Trump, he is making it happen!
Although don’t forget, we have the liberal media doing all the reporting on this, and “shaping” the news. Clarence Thomas was not given a pass for being black — the left just used a black woman to attack him. Remember, liberals are free to attack conservatives, even women and minorities, because they will find ways to demonize them by making up fake news, and using other women and minorities to do their dirty attack work.
Yes, the left will have no problem attacking a woman. Look how they attacked Sarah Palin in the most misogynist of ways and the MSM not only didn’t call them out but led the effort.
I kind of hope he surprises us with an outside the box excellent choice no one sees coming. As to a woman. . . . . . I have been vastly disappointed by every woman appointed to SC. The two that are left right now. . . .. seem not to have a thought that isn’t tied to political doctrine.
However, my opinion would change immediately if he were to nominate Sidney Powell.
Oh my, wouldn’t that be spectacular!
Of course, with those two, it was apparent when they were nominated that they had no intent to do anything but vote for the liberal side of every case.
It needs to be Lagoa. The biggest issue facing the country is it’s existence. Free and fair elections and freedom of speech are the two linchpins. Lagoa is all too familiar with the risk our country faces and therefore she should be the nominee. And the dems are repugnant.
Lagoa passed Senate confirmation by 80-15, which is a terrible sign. No conservative ever gets through the Senate at 80-15. She also married into a Leftist family, another terrible sign.
Question.. how conservative is the Cuban judge on immigration and universal mail in voting , abortion??
Masks? Vaccines?
“Protests against Stupidity”
So true.
I love it.
Let me be clear…
Twenty-nine (29) times in American history there has been an open Supreme Court vacancy in a presidential election year, or in a lame-duck session before the next presidential inauguration. The president made a nomination in all twenty-nine cases. George Washington did it three times. John Adams did it. Thomas Jefferson did it. Abraham Lincoln did it. Ulysses S. Grant did it. Franklin D. Roosevelt did it. Dwight Eisenhower did it. Barack Obama did it.
Thanks for this Tom McMahon !
If the majority party in the senate had a massive majority a purist justice could be moved forward. Given the barely a majority that exists now, politics are a major consideration when nominating, especially so in an election year. No candidate is perfect so go with the best ya got with the ability to help politically. No gettin around it.
I think Trump may surprise us after some democrat trolling that gets him more campaign material. The left is in a serious bind right now with polling showing riots and looting hurting their chances. They can’t control the crazies no matter what they say. The only way they will stop the violence now is for blue states to implement a crackdown. Since they are incompetent, that will fail.
I don’t see many options for the left but to push the whole process issue. Threats, violence, looting, and loud protests won’t work. How did they ever think that it would? In a totalitarian communist country it is needed, but in a democracy it does not work because there are many other options for change and the population gets to vote.
Not impressed at all with Barrett’s jurisprudential thinking in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision in favor of Gov. Pritzker. I have a feeling if she weren’t stuck at the office from 9-5, she’d be out in her $100 Lululemon yoga pants taking a knee at a BLM rally on behalf of her brown children. Pass.
The fact that PDJT didn’t go with ACB to fill the last vacancy when so many “conservative” writers and commentators were pushing hard for her to be the nominee tells me that she won’t be the pick here either.
BTW, I’m not sure why everyone is assuming it will come down to between ACB and Lagoa. There are some other very impressive women on PDJT’s list of potential SC picks.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/additions-president-donald-j-trumps-supreme-court-list/
In fact, I really like this lady……
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Jones_Rushing
I will take a Protestant male every time.
Male Catholic judge = bleeding heart Democrat-lite, female version = bleeding heart Democrat. Male Jewish judge = full-fledged Democrat, female version = raging leftist shrew.
Sorry fellas, that’s my bigoted opinion and I am sticking to it. ?
Seriously, though, genitals should not play any role in selection of Supreme Court Justices.
However, everyone, even PDJT, plays identity politics these days which is a sad sign of decline. A female candidate will presumably have a better chance to be confirmed, and the soccer moms will have to be appeased and cajoled, that’s the only reason. Never mind there are probably more qualified men out there than a mother of 7 kids or a young inexperienced Latina.
i agree. I am a woman and would go to extreme lengths to stick to the men’s clubs. The most important thing to keep in mind is the Constitution, not how much more I can be LIKED so I can be assured of an election win. I have always thought Judge Andrew Hanen would have been a nice pick for the short list but I am partial to Texans.
Women are too ‘feeling’. Being a judge requires 110% objectivity.
Ginsberg, Sotomayor and Kagan are case in point.
Yup, so true, summer!!
You do realize that Scalia was a practicing Catholic, right? In fact, his son is a member of the clergy. We would be blessed to have another Scalia on the Court.
There are different kinds of Catholics, just as there are different kinds of Protestants. (Or different kinds of Republicans, for that matter.) Some of it is a denominational thing, some of it is a generational thing. And gender isn’t a sure-fire guarantee of anything today. I would take a Catholic Scalia over a social justice warrior Protestant Millennial any time. And my dream pick would be to see Jay Sekulow on the bench.
Yes to everything you said!
Doubtful it will come to a vote prior to the election. Takes too long. Too many procedural votes to overcome. Might get out of committee though. Maybe.
China Mitch is all over this. You can put it in the bank that this will get done!
If he has the vote, tell folks there will be two days of hearings and then the vote . Mitch is not MAGA , but he loves filling judgeships
Judge Allison H. Eid
Born 1965 in Seattle, WA
Federal Judicial Service
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Nominated by Donald J. Trump on June 7, 2017, to a seat vacated by Neil M. Gorsuch.
Confirmed by the Senate on November 2, 2017, and received commission on November 3, 2017.
Education:
Stanford University, A.B., 1987
University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1991
Professional Career:
Private practice, Denver, Colorado, 1991, 1992-1993, 1994-1998
Law clerk, Hon. Jerry E. Smith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1991-1992
Law clerk, Hon. Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court of the United States, 1993-1994
University of Colorado School of Law, 1998-2009, 2011-2015; associate professor, 1998-2006; adjunct professor, 2007-2009, 2011-2015
Solicitor general, State of Colorado, 2005-2006
Justice, Colorado Supreme Court, 2006-2017
Adjunct professor, Suffolk University Law School Summer Law Program, Lund, Sweden, 2007
Visiting judicial teaching fellow, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, 2010
I am opposed to these two women because I feel they do not possess the calibre of gorsuch or kavanaugh, and they are less qualified than Kagan or Sotomayor–nobody wants to be selected because they are female, gay, straight, native american, asian–it diminishes their respect–this is madness!!!! and I think tht in 2020, just like in 2016, Trump already has more support among suburban women than polls show, and I think picking these women will have no impact whatsoever on female vote —(women are in fact wondering how a lady with seven children can diligently hold a full-time job)–I am hoping our president will feel he can change his mind about picking a woman because she is a woman–pick somebody because they are respected jurists with track record–I am still in favor of paul clement even tho we are tired of choosing jurists from harvard law,— clement has enormous stature,–he has argued 100 cases before supreme court, is an expert at appellate law, would do far far better in senate hearings than coney barrett, and romney likes clement, and we need romneys support right now even tho romney is a spiteful ornery creature–we need a supreme court pick with proven positions on all conservative issues not just right to life
for example, paul clement successfully represented little sisters of the poor before the supreme court–that remarkable success alone alone proves he can reliably support right to life issues and religious freedoms——and if clement were the pick, I think george bush would summon susan collins up to kennebunkport and demand she vote for clement, just like he demanded she support kavanaugh–so,I think that clement is the easiest fastest pick for the nomination, quick hearings and and vote betore end of october,– in my view, all problems are resolved by picking clement ASAP
Content to watch the establishment uniparty ugly slugfest over the next six weeks as President Trump crisscrosses the nation campaigning for America’s future survival as a free nation. He will put forth a nomination later this week and then let Congress and the media fight it out. Let us focus on his re-election now and deal with the Supreme Court somewhere down the line. The democrats have already said that they will unleash their dogs of war if Biden loses so we should be preparing for that.
~~~~~~~ TRUMP 2020 ~~~~~~~
Republicans need to play hardball on this one. It’s for sure Democrats would do it if the ball were in their court. Let the Dems rage. They are already raging and they have already threatened to pack the court, already threatened t riot and burn and loot. Don’t give in to them. Collins and Murkowski are living in another world that is gone with the wind.
Let’s imagine for a minute he decides on a male, and let say it’s a male holding elected office. Would you pick Cotton. .. Hawley .. .. . .Cruz?
cotton hawley or cruz are more qualified than coney barrett and would do better in the senate hearings
Louie Gohmert, and then watch all of the heads explode like in the KingsMan movie!
Sydney Powell for SCOTUS. She is one smart cookie and would absolutely destroy the Democrats during confirmation hearings.
I think that sydney powell is more impressive than coney barrett and would do better in the senate hearings
Robert Barnes on Barrett. He’s evidently not a fan.
I was just coming here to post this. I trust Barnes opinion on the SCOTUS pick. That makes me think Lagoa is the better move, but I’ve read concerning commentary about her as well. Maybe POTUS will surprise us and come out of the woodwork with a name no one expects. Wasn’t impressed with the Kavanaugh pick, but I feel like that was a demand from Anthony Kennedy in exchange for retiring and letting Trump have the pick.
From The Babylon Bee. Too funny to pass up.
https://babylonbee.com/news/genius-trump-nominates-joe-biden-to-supreme-court/
I’ve been praying all week that he has the sense to nominate Barrett. Lagoa would be another John Roberts: she the Bushes pick, the Feinsteins’ pick. Dear God in this our nation’s 11th hour, please give Donald Trump the wisdom to pick Barrett.