Tonight at 5:00pm President Trump is scheduled to announce his pick to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Many media outlets are reporting the selection will be Amy Coney Barrett.
UPDATE: WHITE HOUSE – Today, President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The YouTube ID of KDSfMpuSck0?start=468 is invalid.Judge Barrett has served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 2017. Before becoming a judge, she was the Diane and M.O. Miller, II Research Chair in Law and Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School, where her scholarship focused on constitutional and statutory interpretation and the Federal courts. Judge Barrett has also served as a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School and the John M. Olin Fellow in Law at George Washington University Law School.
Earlier in her career, she practiced at the prestigious law firms Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin LLP and Baker Botts LLP. Judge Barrett clerked on the Supreme Court for Justice Antonin Scalia and for Judge Laurence H. Silberman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Rhodes College in Tennessee and a summa cum laude graduate of Notre Dame Law School, where she graduated first in her class. Judge Barrett is known for her keen intellect, piercing legal analysis, and generous spirit. Judge Barrett lives in Indiana with her husband Jesse and their seven children.
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Newsmax also covering live.
Forced vaccinations to go along with mandatory lockdowns. Not my preference.
So what is the alternative?
There’s alot of names on the list.
Hameet Dhillon. Not that any of us have a say in PT’s decision. And we’ll know in 60 seconds anyway.
psalms 91:10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague (covid) come nigh thy dwelling.
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Without faith it is impossible to please God….
In short, speak the Word of GOD and base your life on it.
You don’t think Trump would have talked with her about that… and received a reasonable statement about her intentions? We KNOW he doesn’t support such things, so I gotta believe he wouldn’t pick her if he was worried about that. (Or any of the other problems we’ve heard mentioned about her, such as the Pope stuff.)
I posted this on a different thread: Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905).
Am predicting a vaccine will be mandatory post-election. Barrett already cited this archaic ruling in a decision regarding Covid lockdowns. Jacobson would work equally well with regard to vaccines.
Prognostications will fly with abandon on her future rulings. Maybe we should have selected the Associate Justice from the posters here. Winning lottery numbers will be also given out freely (they fall between 0 and 100).
As for me, I will wait for her rulings to know what they will be. Further, I trust Trump in his selection. First impressions are that Amy is a person of great character, including honesty, judgement, sense of proportion, and sense of humanity.
That she clerked under Scalia and he was her mentor, I have no trepidation.
Congratulations to America and Americans.
The Senate should put its foot down on the politics of abject criminal mistreatment found in the Kavanaugh confirmation by the criminal political party, the DNC.
I wholeheartedly agree. I had a gut feeling on her to begin with. Then seeing who supported her vocally (Harvard law professor Feldman, former Obama officials, the Rinos) and the promise to move swiftly as with Wray I knew my instinct was right. Her husband’s ties to the Chamber of Commerce and therefore CFR are problematic. Then when I saw her stance in masks, quarantines and vaccines I am now deeply, deeply concerned.
Let’s pray she doesn’t vote against Trump when the election goes to SCOTUS.
The poor people who think this is 4D chess to explode trafficking via Haiti are in for a rude awakening.
Thank goodness POTUS is going with ACB and not Lakao. Lakao is a blank slate, like Souter, and has only 11 opinions on non constitutional issues showing no judicial philosophy. She needs to ripen in the Fed Court system and possibly replace the Wide Latina down the line.
Fortunately, there is no one named Lakao in the running.
Thank you, Please read Judge Lagoa in as my nominee to replace the Wide Latina if she blossoms into the role someday.
With the accelerating MS that could come sooner than we realize.
Snootybaronet isn’t writing a phd thesis you jerk.
Nice manners
…and no wide Latina:-)
Barrett has only been a judge for three years, while Lagoa (not Lakoa) has been a judge for 14 years.
Like Souter she was a state court Judge and her state record is not replete with constitutional related jurisprudence. Hopefully, she will ripen to replace the Wide Latina someday.
I think she would probably be fine right now. I’m not excited about Barrett, mainly because I think the Senate fight will be brutal. We need a 9th associate justice NOW!
I fail the enthusiasm for Barrett that everybody else seems to have. I am not religious but hers isn’t bothering me. However, I am leery of her rigidity, real or perceived, and while I nor the females in my family would have abortions, I have no problem with leaving Roe v. Wade in place. At least she seems to be consistent in that she is pro life and anti capital punishment.
Let’s hope a surprise is in store for us other then what’s been reported.
If not her, I think Allison Ead.
The more, the merrier, when it comes to President Trump choosing SC justices. Audi nos, Domine Deus.
Here that…hear it? The screaming from the left as they loose what’s left of thire little minds.The most beautiful sound outside a newborn baby. Sounds like…Victory!
yes, I heard it. I thought it was the next door neighbor’s transmission squealing at first
Amy’s opinion re the Illinois lockdown was strictly tailored to the free exercise issue before her court. She did not uphold lockdowns, she addressed the limited issues presented by the litigants. Unfortunately the dummies who brought the case for the state GOP poorly drafted their cause of action. Amy acted properly as a non activist jurist.
I haven’t read the decision that closely, but I hope you’re right. Thanks.
https://amgreatness.com/2020/09/25/barrett-did-not-affirm-the-illinois-lockdown-order/
Gonna be… Nick Sandman! 😀
Here’s some added intrigue….
https://twitter.com/Mansplainerr/status/1309956607871086592
Here is Harmeet’s counter:
https://mobile.twitter.com/barnes_law/status/1309955300930146304?ref_url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconservativetreehouse.com%2f2020%2f09%2f26%2fpresident-trump-announces-supreme-court-nominee-500pm-et-livestream%2f
Very good treatment by Harmeet. Especially the link to the full decision.
Does anyone else have CTH open in two separate tabs to listen to the announcement in one and to read the comments in the other? 🙂
I do.
Always! Especially for ‘major’ events like this one.
Always for live events.
Do it all the time during PDJT rally’s.
The Democrat V.P. nominee’s committee hearing behavior will be delicious.
Does she attack or not.
Either way, she loses.
Of course she will. Playing to the radical base.
Oh she is so nasty
She comes across as demonic at times. Look at her face when she attacks.
That’s all the have— attacks.
I think she absolutely HAS to, to her and parties detriment.
While I hate that the nominee and family, and our Republic, have to go through the painful to watch process,…
Gotta admit the schedenfrude IS deliscious.
Karmala HAS to attack, the Dems HAVE to villify, and will drive yet more voters,AWAY.
Great stagecraft.
The look on her husband’s face is beautiful.
The Never Trumpers are going to try and use this to split the GOP with their lies. Don’t fall for it
That bunch doesn’t have enough pull to get a puppy out of a mudhole
Shoot. Looks like it IS Barrett. I kinda wanted Lagoa.
Oh well, win some, lose some.
Sunny, I was hoping Lagoa too, but I trust Trumps judgement
He will nominate her next!!?
I know!!!
haha. It’ll happen!
To replace Breyer.
Possible. Hm.
Then the D’s heads will really explode, think Mars attach.
Slim Whitman. “Indian Love Call”.
In my opinion, it is foolish to root for a particular nominee (unless you know them intimately.) But from the outside, with only MSM and twitter input, no one has a deep insight… rather, it is projecting your own hope on a blank slate.
And sometimes (though never for a dem nominee), the Justice “evolves” (always to a more liberal stance.). I just keep my fingers crossed, and recognize my opinion on the nominee is ridiculously incompetent to comment on.
So for the time being, enjoy a win, because RGB was a true leftist, and Barrett is not that.
I was waiting for the switcharoo at the last minute too.
Hoping for good outcomes.
CNN is even showing it!!
God bless PDJT!!!
Lindsey Graham is responsible for this.
I’m convinced Miss Lindsey told PT that this is the only appointee that would make it out of his committee.
Nope! President Trump told him to get off the S**t or end up in Federal F**k th*m up the a** with Bubba. He is dirty as sin (Lindsey). PDJT told him it would not be a country club prison either! Lindsey was both scared and excited – who knows.
My money is on him ending up in prison where McCain should have been!
Yeah, I also am not sure whether lindsey would view that particular threat as an incentive, or disincentive.
He might even be conflicted, and have to think about it for awhile,…..
NOT a good track record, for appointing “Conservative” Justices who have lived up to the term,…although most of the,disappointments were by GOPe, Rino Presidents, even Reagan got suckered, with Sandra Day.
Simply no way to know, like a box of chocolates, never know what your gonna git!
All the more reason to skip the P O S committee and take it straight to a floor vote.
all the committee hearings would do is give the commiecrats tv time to generate hate !
My feelings right here.
Make and model of crystal ball… please .
Good reply, Sweet.
As the saying goes, the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.
Exactly.
Maybe true but using Cernovich doesn’t strengthen your case, he’s all over the map with no compass other than to be controversial.
Personally, I don’t want some lunatic civil libertarian on the court (the reason I’m a Conservative, not a Libertarian). I’m looking for a Godly person with intelligence and common sense. ACB fits the bill as far as I can tell.
In terms of lockdowns, I’ll take the Rand Paul types.
See below, Rand just fully endorsed her. Don’t let the Twitter “hot take” experts get to you. Cernovich and his ilk are entertainers, not serious analysts.
Do you really expect most Republicans to not say nice things about whoever was picked? Very unlikely.
I give up. Enjoy your misery.
Disappointed, yes. But beings the proverbial horse in the race isn’t mine, no misery to be had. ?
Snootybaronet just explained her decision isn’t what your saying it was. Very narrow scope and dealt with it in the context it was presented as per law. She just said she is exacting in upholding the law as written.
I really wouldn’t jump to conclusions that she is all in for mandatory lockdowns and vaccines.
I’ve read the competeting arguments and the problem wasn’t the ruling so much as citing Jacobson as the basis of the ruling. That’s the issue many of us have with it.
Well I guess we will just have to wait and see. I’m going to be positive and hope she is the true Constitutionalist she claims to be. One of her first statements today was “I love the Constitution.” So I’m going with that until proven otherwise. It is an exciting moment though no matter what we all think about how she will perform her job. PTrump nominated his third SC justice!
Not an authoritarian. She publicly criticized Justice Roberts for legislating to accept the Affordable Care Act rather than follow the Constitution. She basically tries to be a justice and not a legislator.
John Roberts smiles down on the White House.
Why? ACB criticized Roberts decision on the Affordable Care Act, claiming he didn’t follow the Constitution. i would think John Roberts would be upset.
“Amy Coney is the best student I ever had.”
High praise.
My son and Barrett are close in age. My son, an attorney, was furious when in law school – Seattle University School of Law – he was taught that the Constitution is a “living” document and must change with the times, reflecting the needs of the times. We’ll find out Barrett’s true stance on this subject in the years to come.
I specifically remember being “taught” that in high school.
Glad I felt different than what they “taught”.
The Constitution is “living” in the sense that it can and has been amended.
The problem are the people who think “living” means the interpretations change, which is largely nonsense and just a simplistic attempt to placate the useful idiots.
Besides, I think we have to accept that Seattle is a lost cause and, apparently, has been for some time.
Dang, hope Barnes is wrong!
I really didnt care who PDJT selected for SCOTUS.I trust in his judgement. Besides,as we have seen in the past theres no guarantee how a Justice will rule on a particular case one way or the other. We just have thire past history to go on. It’s the Presidents decision and no one else has a say.Its not a committee decision. Now you squishes in the Seanate bypass hearings and debates and VOTE her in this week! Good night Ruthie wherever you are.
Let’s hope ACB has the spine to deal with the weeks, and then hopefully, years ahead.
That is what Im hoping for. Too many judges out there who want to play congress from the bench.
Exactly!
A Haitian will emerge from the shadows to claim Amy Coney Barrett’s children are her stolen progeny. Democrats are debating whether they can pull it off.
Sadly you are probably spot on with this prediction.
Yeah, so many things the Democrats have been doing (eliminate new gasoline-powered cars in California, complain about social distancing and hand shaking at a peace treaty signing) sound they should be satire written by Bablylon Bee writers and turn out to be true.
I have a lot of sympathy for Babylon Bee,….it must be harder and harder to generate satire, with all thats going on!
Writer comes to editor with Satirical article they spent hours working on, only to find out “it” just happened, for REALS, ….what, AGAIN???!! I Quit!
And some Democrats might know about child trafficking from Haiti!
Yep, but NOT for the purpose of providing them a good home, an education, and a compass coordinate to a good life.
Maybe Joosy Smollette can loan them a few Nigerians to play Haitians.
Joosy should have known never to give money to Nigerians .
Hopefully, it is not another dissapointment. There is no more true conservatives on the gene pool.
Out of curiosity, who else on POTUS’s list is “not a true conservative?”
Laura Ingraham is in the audience.
So was Tom Fitton
Isn’t it amazing that so many pundits know precisely how Judge Barrett will rule on lockdowns before the lawyers even plead the particulars of a case? I find that discouraging on such a glorious day as this.
I find that discouraging
I am suspicious that that is the point. People have known for four years who was on the list, and now Shazam! someone on that list is a mistake.
Can you imagine going to the White House to watch your mom be nominated to the SC?!!!
I sure can’t!!
God Bless those kids!
I just hope Amy isn’t a huge fan of beer… I can just see her and Kav rolling around on the floor fighting over the last can!
And they got a ride on an Air Force Gulfsteam from South Bend to Andrew’s and a Helicopter ride from Andrew’s to the White House!
Well done and deserved.
Who will be more popular, AOC or ACB?
https://twitter.com/cathponeill/status/1309962721908187136?s=21
Oh, that’ll work….LOL.
Brace yourselves for the upcoming sh*tshow of lies. Hopefully they’ll go as hard on Amy as they did on Kav. LOTS of Dems #WalkedAway after that fiasco.
Creating more Trump voters with every attack.
I wouldn’t wish what was done to Kavanaugh on anyone. I thing that is a terrible thing to say.
So you think they WON’T do that? wow.
Wishing ain’t gonna make it so. I’m sure Amy and family are well prepared for the BS storm that is most certainly heading their way.
Hahahahahaha!!!
Oh, and also…. hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!
😀 😀 😀
O’Biden camp claims they’re running on being “nice” ????
Please remember that Kamala didn’t even make it to the Democrat Iowa causes because the Dems wouldn’t support her. If she comes out like the barracuda she is, they run the risk of losing support.
If Biden wasn’t appearing like dementia is rapidly taking over his brain so that he will end up resigning, putting Kamala at the top, we can hope she will scare away many of their supporters.
Just her promising that the demonstrations and riots won’t stop after the election should be enough to encourage the moderates to walk away.
Shoot, caucuses not causes.
Is he baiting them?
Please, oh PUHLEASE don’t throw me in dat briar patch!!
He KNOWS they can’t HELP themselves, she is red flag to bull, and Karmala will lead the charge,…
But, a little laser on the wall, to get the cat going, never hurts,…
Let’s see,
Roberts
Gorsuch
Kavenaugh
Barrett
oh.
I suppose after she’s sworn in they’ll all link arms, kneel down and hum “We Shall Overcome”.
Just to “prove” they’re not racist, ya know.
How rude
You missed the other Justices— do they meet your standards? Why?
go away.
I keep reading praise about how impartial she is, but is it too much to ask for a highly partisan conservative? Obama “installed” two Leftist, yet we have to put forward neutral, unbiased types.
The constitution isn’t partisan.
The SCs sole purpose is to apply the constitution to legal disputes.
Partisanship should have no place on the court.
Usually the “well they did it first” mentality is far more destructive than productive.
lol, you keep clinging to that Constitution while the Left legislates from the bench. Tell me, what was Constitutional about John Roberts upholding Obamacare or legalizing gay marriage? You believe in an America as it should be, I see America for what it currently is, and what it will take to fend off the Left.
So you want someone to “make it up?” With that approach, we do not have laws, we have rulers, and adopting that strategy is exactly how Republics collapse.
Bulwarker I couldn’t agree with you more about having “highly partisan conservative” Supreme Justices! How in the world does anyone think that after the pendulum has swung way over to the Left, that by aiming for the middle is going to correct the swing?
Obviously people who think that way have absolutely no real world experience. As an example; in dealing with bent steel, simply pulling it into the position that it is supposed to be in never will fix the issue.
I took an over-the-road truck to a frame shop one time because one of the frame rails was bent in the middle towards the center of the tractor. The frame shop owner explained to me that after removing skirting, fuel tank, and such, they would anchor the tractor’s main structure to their frame system. Then they would attach anchors to the bent portion of my frame rail and pull it outwards beyond the point where it should be. Then they would measure just how close to true and correct it then was. If need be they would repeat the process with either more pressure or less pressure depending on how much they still needed to bend it in order to get it back to true and correct.
When I was a young man (I’m now about 5 years past my expiration date & he was old & feeble) an old man was telling me that one of the things that he did when he was younger was to straighten wind-bent flag poles. He said that he would attach a steel cable to the top of the flag pole and anchor the cable in the opposite direction of the bend. Then with a ‘come-along’ he would start winching the flag pole, what most observers thought was way too far, to a point where his experience had taught him would be just about right. Then, with all the ‘expert observers’ screaming that he had ruined the flag pole by bending it too far the wrong direction, he would start carefully and slowly backing off the ‘come-along’ and notice that not only did he not bend it too far the wrong direction, but in fact he needed to pull it 2 or 3 more times. As he got older, he could normally bend the flag pole just once in order for it to be straight again.
Like I tell my grandsons; “Keep in mind that by this time in my life the statute of limitations of any incident that might possibly be declared illegal has long since expired. Also, almost all participants involved have either died or are so old that they no longer remember the incident so I’m free to tell these stories my way.”
The thing is, I think that Bulwarker is right. This crap of us ‘Constitutional Conservatives’ hoping that somehow we’ll get lucky and get a Supreme Court Justice who is impartial hasn’t worked worth a spotted turd.
I too see America for what it currently is! I too believe that it will take something more to fend off the Left than somehow miraculously getting an impartial Supreme Court Justice. I too wonder why ‘Constitutional Conservatives’ have never ever gotten a ‘right leaning’ Supreme Court Justice.
Maybe the steel of America needs to be bent way too far to the Right just to get it to come back to True and Correct Center.
How do I think that?
Because as long as each side is pushing so aggressively, the pendulum will never spend much time in the middle (where it belongs).
We don’t need that. The modern left, and it’s current brand of feminism especially, believes that true justice can only be evidenced by equal results or outcomes rather than equal opportunity (they feel people who choose something like motherhood have been victims of innate societal and cultural oppression and so exercising their equal opportunity to choose their outcome is a sham). This view is at odds with our Constitution as written because it is structured on the premise of equal opportunity for all. Therefore, an originalitist like Barrett or Scalia are already mortal threats to the left, not by partisanship but by simply upholding the Constitution’s original intent.
That is not what the SC should be made of. What Obama did we all know and nobody liked.
I hope the SC is as neutral to anything policy related as can be. Rule on the letter of the law, not partisan politics, follow the Constitution. If we get a true court now, that’s exactly what will happen and we I’m thinking we might not like every decision.
Expect a fined tooth comb – full body cavity search from the marxist dems and their ministry of propaganda. Not to mention the slander and hate.
I’m just expecting an onslaught of Outright LIES and BS.
And I’m sure I’m not alone in that, esp. after the Kavanaugh debacle.
As someone said on another blog, I’m going to do what I can to get PDJT re-elected, the House back into GOP hands, keep the Senate and win state House and Senate races. But on this pick, I learned my lesson in 2012 with the Romney campaign.
I’ll be in the last row of the 3rd deck watching the proceedings during this nomination hearing.
Well said. Many of us were fooled by Romney. And by Roberts, I might add. But she certainly said the right things and her public criticism of Roberts for his legislating on the Affordable Care Act, rather than following the Constitution, certainly bodes well.
No Justice is going to be perfect and always rule as one would desire.
After hearing some of the negative comments about Judge Barrett, I was a little concerned. But after hearing the leftists go absolutely bonkers about her, I’m now comfortable she is the best possible choice.
When Bill Maher (on the communist HBO that I wouldn’t spend a dime on) said she was “F***ing Nuts”, I knew the President was over the target! MOAB!!!
The most civil liberty-oriented figure in the Republican party (other than his father) just whole-heartedly endorsed her. Can we give the hand-wringing a rest? Seriously, get off twitter, it’s a cancer and not good for your soul.
I like seeing that, because over the past few years I’ve started liking (and trusting) Rand much more than I used to.
@ jello333… I agree. Rand got off to a bad start in my opinion; but, he has improved quite a bit recently.
Let the games begin
Another good one! I’m feeling much better now. 😉
Not quite, Mitch. YOU made the decision…you know, that whole ADVICE and consent thing. It is now rather obvious you made it clear to PT this was the only nominee that would get confirmed.
Tell us more, oh magnificent one! A true mind-reader, who cavorts with the rich and powerful. /s
Hmmm, so now the Turtle can be trusted. ?
Now THATS a reccomendation that gives me qualms,…almost as bad as one from Sissie Graham.
But, just MAYBE PDJT has leverage over those two clowns, to do his bidding, without backstabbing, on this nomination.
Cause I just don’t trust cocain mitch, or crooked Lindsey,….not ONE LITTLE BIT!
All the leverage here is with Mitch/Lindsey.
Pew.,
not willing to agree although the weight of evidence is in your favor.
I hope so, although as spectators, I don’t see how we can possibly know that. Just have to ‘take it on faith’.?
An UNSUCCESSFUL confirmation, is generally considered politically very damaging to an administration.
Will Mitch/Lindsey resist the temptation to greatly hurt PDJT’s reelection, by deliberately sabatoging the confirmation hearings?
I wouldn’t bet ANY money on it.
I would bet a boatload. What odds?
I don’t “gamble”, I only WAGER. However, I am currently “all in” on the results of 2020 POTUS election, so have -0- to wager on any other bet.
I would say betting on McConnell not stabbing us in the back, if he has a chance, would be a real gamble.
Beautiful family.
Winning!
ACB replaces RBG
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How long will the red robed handmaid gals be employed at the Senate? ( and who pays them?) The Senate could vote next week to keep the circus to a minimum..
Soros is ordering more outfits now….
Yup
Don’t give them any ideas, the State of the Union speech is not that far off.