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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Democrats had better tread lightly in Judge Barrett’s confirmation. American people are watching and giving her the Kavanaugh treatment will backfire on them.
Actually I hope the D’s go full K, that might be the final straw for sane folks to realize they are nuts and they worship late term abortion.
She’s a Hoosier.
Tough people.
She can handle the attacks, and every attack makes more Trump voters.
The Democrat V.P. nominee will put the final nail in the coffin of hopes for the Harris-Biden administration.
You REALLY would wish that on her? It was some of the foulest, vilest, evil treatment anyone could experience. Please think about it.
I want the current Democrat Party destroyed.
I believe Judge Barrett and family are tough enough to deal with the nonsense the D’s will bring.
She and her Husband both certainly saw what happened to Justice Kavanaugh and discussed these possibilities before accepting this nomination.
A wonderful, well thought-out, speech. She’ll reach a lot of run-of-the-mill people who will identify with her, all races included. An example for all. May God Protect Her.
Seven children. ACB will have no problem with the democrat brats on the judiciary committee.
Do you mean she’s used to controlling a gang of disruptive, narcissistic, playground bullies who have barely mastered the art of conforming to a civilized culture? Her own youngsters, on the other hand, seem to be a well-behaved, respectful group, so she might have some adjustments ahead during her confirmation.
Here is my take.
ACB is Catholic. Democrats will pound her. Most Hispanics are Catholic. Let the games begin!
Fifty-seven percent of adult Hispanics self-identify as Catholic. This percentage has
fallen from about seven in ten self-identifying as such in 2006 (70%). In CARA surveys,
38% percent of adult Catholics self-identify their ethnicity as Hispanic or Latino/a. This
has increased from about a third in 2000 (34%).
☒ The “retention rate” for Hispanic or Latino/a youth is 71%. Thus, seven in ten of those
raised in the faith remain Catholic as adults. By comparison only 61% of non-Hispanics
raised Catholic remain in the faith as adults.
If that was the reasoning behibd the pick, why not go with Lagoa who is both hispanic and Catholic?
Why does it matter to you? Not trying to be rude, just curious. Is it going to make any difference in our lives?
Umm, yes, the possible deciding vote on the Supreme Court will matter quite a bit in all of our lives.
Will she be much, much better than Ginsburg?
and what is she soft on that you would worry about? Again just curious. She has much more of a track record then Lagoa does.
I think we’ve been hashing that out here for the past couple of days. See some of the other threads for the details.
Let’s just find the best person, regardless of race, gender, religion.
Seems to me everyone on CTH wanted Barrett last time. Now because Cernovich and Barnes say boo, some are changing their minds?
For the record, I was never on the ACB train.
I’m on the Trump Train.
The President nominated ACB, I support that.
Time will tell.
I’m hopeful.
In God We Trust
I hope it works out for us.
I’m on the constitution train and support whoever will fight from the same train. That being said, the Supreme Court has brought this country to the brink with its lousy, rights stripping, lame brained, decisions, including many republican appointed judges. I hope I’m wrong, but I see her as a light weight. I would have preferred Stickman, who made the ruling in the Pennsylvania lockdown ruling. He stood up for the constitution. If the rino side of the uniparty are all in, you know she isn’t what we want in a judge.
Stickman would’ve been my pick just fot that decision alone! That was one of the best decisions I’ve ever read.
Yes, Magabear. Ha!. I also read ALL of Judge Stickman’s first decision (e.g., “opinion”).
Two times.
Amazing. But his second opinion, denying the requested Stay of his original Order, pending appeal…did you happen to read that??
What an Epic and Intergalactic Level Beatdown.
Glorious.
Free Pennsylvania!!
AMEN
Exactly, I’m on the Trump Train; if the President is confident that ACB is the right choice for the Supreme Court, that’s good enough for me.
Prayers for her husband and children, really hoping that no Senate committee hearings are necessary, especially since the Democrat Senators on that committee are telegraphing they aren’t interested in meeting or questioning her, send the vote directly to the Senate floor after the entire group of Senators gets a chance to review her record.
All the complaining out of Schumer and others fear-mongering about how her rulings might affect their beloved special interest rights need to be reminded, if they want those :”rights” to stand-up in court, write better laws!
If Upchuck were constrained from “doing #2” until he had drafted a law by himself, the janitor would have a nasty mess to clean up, and we’d be rid of him!
So sorry ACB’s nomination hasn’t butthurted you, Magabear. Suck it up, buttercup.
Okay, Sparky.
To the naysayers, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want. You Get What You Need”.
The democrats will not pound Lagoa because she is Hispanic. But with ACB, she is white and democrats will go full frontal attack on her and make asses of themselves. This makes ACB the better candidate.
I kinda doubt it’ll play out that way, but maybe you’ll be right.
Women vote.
Soccer moms vote. Working women vote. Single moms vote. Uneducated and highly educated Moms vote. North, South, East and West Moms vote. (Especially this year with all of the lawlessness and violence. )
Many of the aforementioned women can relate to a woman with a career, and children, and still has an opportunity to reach the pinnacle of their legal career.
Religion or race will not play as big a role as the media and small minds think it does.
The fact that she is an obviously brilliant jurist, who happens to be a woman, will count.
So, my point is, voting ladies, especially Moms, let’s remind our Senators and those on the other side that we vote. And we won’t forget this momentous decision.
And, recently, Trump commented, “I would love to see more women on the SCOTUS…sorry guys”. It was at one of this past week’s rally’s. Is he signalling something?
And finally, her speech was very precise and measured, not giving the media and Congressional turds much to complain about or work with. Guess, once again, they’ll have to go with the made up stuff from anonymous sources.
Did I see Laura Ingraham in the audience a few rows back from the family?
“Religion or race will not play as big a role as the media and small minds think it does.”
I accept your small mind compliment. Small mind thinks Democrats will make an attack to appease their Godless base. Let’s see where they choose to attack her. If Trump picked her they must be against.
As typical, Twitter has not launched attacks as leadership is still awaiting an attack strategy. Nothing is organic.
She’s on the new 2020 list…if 45 wins, maybe Lagoa replaces Sotomayer…
I live in fear that Justice Thomas will be next to retire – he’s getting up there, and has well earned a long vacation!
Sotomayer’s too mean to quit – like Ruthie, she’ll torment us ’til she croaks!
Thanks for the stats! I would think it is the having seven kids (and keeping the lovely Downes boy) PLUS being a Catholic is what drives the Left into simply foaming diabolically at the mouth. (And being a “color-blind” family is just rubbing alcohol up their butts!) Satan H.A.T.E.S. families, and really hates good, loving families, and he is just reduced to foaming and kicking imbecility (imagine the greatest being ever created reducing himself to a foaming, kicking mass of spite) by a religious good and loving family. (Brett Kavanagh is a good buy, though kind of a squish — I mean, not an Alpha male — and as a judge, he’s no Thomas or Alito, but the ferocity of the attacks on him were inspired because he, too, was active in church and served soup kitchens and so on.)
Yes, Justice Lagoa is a Catholic too, but ACB’s story is striking in faith and religion terms, so, we’ll see if the Left completely imitates is “Father Below” in hatred of a Christian woman, mother, and faithful spouse.
Otherwise, I’d just note as a Trad Catholic how sad it is to see the Vatican II Church fail so miserably. The retention stats are striking! I remember reading that studies show in 1963, 3/4s of Catholics were in church on a Sunday morning (no Sat evening Masses then!) and only 20 years later, the figure was reversed: only about a quarter of Catholics attended Mass.
Half the Democrat Party, in congress, are Catholic. Half the Supreme Court are Catholic.
There are faithful, practicing Catholics and there are Catholics in name only who may or may not be cultural Catholics. Catholics, contrary to outside opinion, are not a monolithic group. An orthodox Catholic priest, Fr. Altman, publicly proclaimed that one cannot be a Catholic and vote Democrat. His bishop is not supporting him, but there are other bishops, notably Bishop Strickland, who are supporting him.
If DiFi starts her carp again, ACB should just smile sweetly and say “No worries – I’ll let Nanzi counsel me!”
Pop! Pop pop pop pop pop
“Clean-up in Senate well!”
I’m perfectly pleased by President Trump’s choice of Amy Coney Barrett. She claims to be a Constitutional Originalist who opposes political activism from the bench. She’s Pro-Life and Pro-Second Amendment. IMO, the “hand-wringing” over her nomination is the product of either misunderstanding of her positions, or intentional effort to divide those who support President Trump.
But, as with all other things, only time will tell whether she is what she says she is, and whether this was a good choice.
It is significant for me that she clerked for Justice Scalia.
Really? WHY, exactly, is that “significant”? That is ridiculous.
As a former Judicial Law Clerk, I can definitely, and absolutely, assure you that “clerking” (essentially researching, and ghost-writing) for a particular Judge has ZERO impact on the clerk’s own personal and/or political views. Our work as Law Clerks was always apolitical.
Just the Law.
Thank you for your input.
Yes, that is another reason I favored her. I hope she doesn’t let him (or us) down!
Extremely Qualified…First in her class…Clerked for Scalia…Federal Appeals experience…45 approved!
Dear Turtle,
Getter done!
I have a gut feeling that she is going to be problematic long term. I hope I am wrong but I wasn’t wrong about the last two picks either.
At least she is better than RBG and support the slaughter of the unborn or post birth abortion.
The last 2 picks were fine, as she shall be.
Another point missed entirely … with her background, expect that she’ll have excellent crops of clerks that will develop under her.
Sometimes, it’s that quality of the clerks that impact the quality of the justice. Plus, these clerks can end up in any number circuit courts themselves. This will be a selection that will keep on giving for years to come …
Leon, good insight with that reply, thanks.
bverwey
Leon, you nailed it. Those clerks will be round for HELL OF long time.
Gorsuch Harvard
Kavanaugh Yale
Barrett Notre Dame
All top notch brilliant…45 selected and Melania approved!
Wow, what’s up with that? I guess Wolf has been hitting the shrooms again… :/
This is a bad sign.
They sang praises about Kavanaugh’s qualifications on the MSM when he was nominated, then they went after him in the senate.
Not really. I’m starting to think some people/orgs have been looking at some internal polling that shows their Hate-Trump-24/7 coverage is now HURTING their cause. But of course if they DO lighten up, they’ll just pretend they were “fair” all along… hoping we’ll forgive and forget. Uh… yeah… NOPE!
The Dems on the Judiciary will do a couple of things. They will go after her so that they hope she says something stupid that the press can harp on for weeks before the vote to turn some Repubs around.
They will also try to make her breakdown on the air to show she doesn’t have the demeanor or toughness for the job, again with the hope it affects Republican votes, Or make it sufficiently miserable she throws in the towel, although this is the least likely.
It’s not gonna be a cakewalk. The Dems will be thorough trying for a ‘gotcha.’
Well done. A lot of us are already praying for her and her family.
ACB > RBG
ACB >> RBG
Now that I think about it more,
log(ACB) >> log(RGB)
So it is 5:30. Will the wonderful children have death threats from BLM warriors before the confirmation hearings begin? Like the Kavanaugh daughters?
The Kamalala is boiling in hatred, flared nostrils and snarling waiting for confirmation to begin. These women are opposites.
I can only see the left declare war and hurt themselves. By the way, Ginsberg liked Justice Kavanaugh.
Ruling as one of nine is a different dynamic than a sole robe in a courtroom. (Justice Kagan did not come from a court room. she came from a diploma mill and had a hand in dropping constitutional law requirement and making international law a requirement.)
Over the next number of days I am prepared to raise my level of disgust and anger for Democrats. However, I will be mindful the degree of mental derangement human beings are capable.
Leftists launch the smear campaign with criticism of ACB’s “trans-racial adoptions” from Haiti…. oh because this is “very concerning” they say…… of course they would be happy for more aborted black babies, just so long as not adopted by ACB or other dangerous “conservative whites”….
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/26/wendy-davis-silent-as-former-senior-staffer-smears-amy-coney-barretts-children/
Here’s the secret . . . please don’t tell anyone. The two kids from Haiti are actually white. The Barretts just do them up in blackface for public appearances. I know this is true because I heard it on CNBC. It will also be in tomorrow’s NY Times.
Using the the approved Gov Ralph shoe polish.
GOOD!! I seriously mean that… I HOPE the scumbags make those kids’ race part of their anti-Trump campaign. PLEASE do it!
What was that slogan from awhile back… oh, yeah now I remember….
“The debate is over!!!”
Yes she’s a very good choice. Since I’m from Brooklyn . . . I especially like the Coney part . . but . . .
. . . I’m really disappointed that it wasn’t Fightin’ Roy Blunt. Gee . . . Fightin’ Roy would have been the greatest of them all!
Well, I wanted David Clarke, so there! 😉 VP, SC justice, Attorney General, Grand Executioner… whatever, but we NEED David in there!
David is a really good guy . . . but I think the hat did him in.
I’m going too, (with permission) put in My 2 coins here..
I honestly believe, after all these years.
(I’ve often opined We need a honest businessman, instead of a career politician running for Our highest Office).. Yes, I supported Ron Perot..
I believe that Our President trump waited…
For the MOST opportune time, Too run (and WIN) the Presidency, along with Timing too replace the MOST Supreme Court Judges in Our History..
Along with TRYING Too save OUR Country as We know it ..
Timing is everything..
As He has Children/Grand children/Son’s & Daughters..
AS WE ALL Do..
I Honestly believe that Our Lord Jesus Christ gave Him “clues” to Run & go for a second Term.. As some say, appointed By GOD..
Though OUR very gracious President, CANNOT do this alone, MAGA & KAG..
It takes us ALL! WWG1WGA..
GOD BLESS #AMERICA. GOD BLESS the Treehouse & Other Blogs Supporting Our President & #AmericaFirst..
(Let the Left wing Progressive/Marxist attacks begin..)..
GOD BLESS Amy C. Barrett!
I ran the Ross Perot campaign for Region 5 West Central Florida for 4 months.
Husband and I owned two manufacturing corporations, and the NAFTA threat was already affecting us. After 4 years of the Globalist Bush, and the prospect of a slick Arkansas nobody , the little Guy from Texarkana spoke to millions of us on his appearances on the Larry King show. Announced his candidacy on that show.
Next day, I changed my party affiliation to Independent. A wealthy, common sense, down-to-earth businessman with a tremendous grassroots appeal. A fierce love of our military and country.
Those were fun days. Thanks for the memory.
Oh my God, I just realized the Dems are right! Trump really IS a Putin puppet!
Kavanaugh
Gorsuch
Barrett
Well played.
Let me fix the order for you – GKB = God Knows Best
Outstanding: “Collusion Clue; the Home Game.” (Is that you, Agent Barnett?)
C-span callers overwhelmingly approve! Across party lines!
Most Presidents would have called it a day. Not President Trump. He’s off to another rally. How many rallies in the past week? I’ve lost count. And he’s still running the country with new policy initiatives every few days. The man is a machine.
Our VSGPOTUS never calls a lid. Trump train full steam ahead!
Yep kinda like Halley’s Comet, lucky if you get to see such a phenomenon during your lifetime.
Trump goes and does a rally like “normal” people go to the grocery store to buy groceries. Maybe somewhat of a pain going there but always feels good when you get back home.
He has incredible energy and I really wish he would bottle up his energy and sell me some or share his diet with us. ????
I wish he could force feed some of it to his AG, a few choice senators, DHS, a couple dozen Pentagon-dwelling generals, etc.
Y’all know their names better than I.
McDonalds and KFC that I have seen.
What a woman. What a family. What a great pick by our VSGPDJT.
I’m torn between the wish to spare ACB and her family the abusive Senate Judiciary Committee D’Rats and their contemptuous treatment of conservatives, on the one hand, and the itching desire to see them further expose themselves for what they are — this time with the fabled “suburban women” vote on the line.
Hmm.
Good point. It’s a 50/50. They savaged Kavanaugh and he said, “F you!” relatively well. He kept his composure until they started throwing clear lies at him and he stood up for himself with credible righteous indignation. And I think that opened some eyes. It was atrocious how he was lied about. But now he’s on the bench.
All things considered, I think Trump will win in a landslide, and they should just vote to confirm. The Dems will hop up and down either way. Screw them.
Is she not already a federal judge? Suppose Mitch switches up and simple calls for a vote since she has already gone through the ordeal of a confirmation hearing. Wouldn’t that just set of fireworks?
bverwey
It better. If not, then that is cause for concern.
Yes, Barrett went through the Kamala Harris-Di Fienstein grinder just three years ago and triumphed and now has 3 years as a federal judge to prove her worth. Bloomenthal refuses to meet with her so Mitch must cut to the vote before Pelousi starts up another impeachment fiasco to stop the Senate from functioning. I’m not happy they won’t start until Oct 12th.
The Dems created the need to have a full Supreme Court before the election by announcing Joe Biden will not concede and their lawfare crew have hired over 600 lawyers to contest the election. So screw the demosocialists and vote Amy in now! If the Dems were in power they would do the same. It’s way past time of Republicans playing nicely because the Republic is at stake.
I’m wondering if the Dems just don’t back off on this because of the election. They know they really have little chance to change the confirmation, so is this the hill they want to die on? Or do they just chalk it up as an unavoidable loss, scream a bit and just concentrate on redoubling their efforts at winning Senate and House races?
We should know this week which way they will go and how hard they will fight this nomination.
I’ve watched the whole presentation and introduction. The President did a masterful — truly — introduction. So, the decision is made and I’m confident President Trump had the info before him to make this choice (and the certainty that he’s going to win Florida!:). It’s our job to support him and the Repubs in the Senate.
love of a child…beautiful
Thank you President Trump!
Now it’s up to the Senate to approve her nomination without delay. There is no reason why she shouldn’t be seated at the Supreme Court within two weeks. Please do it Leader McConnell.
I didn’t particularly like Gorusch or Kavanaugh. I didn’t dislike them, mind you, just didn’t really have high hopes for them or have any sort of feelings for them. But ACB? I can’t help but smile when I hear her talk.
I just hope she makes us all proud.
I didn’t care one way or the other about Kav… UNTIL I saw how he was treated in the hearings and how he responded. After that, I REALLY liked the guy.
It’s not official until we hear from Jerry Nadler.
He is still trying to locate a box of Depends that fit.
Is that before or after he changes his shorts?
He looks like he can hardly walk. Last video I saw he was shuffling, slowly.
That’s because he had a deuce on the loose in his caboose!
Mollie, the Leftards are “gaslighting” us constantly…. trying to make us disbelieve our own eyes, ears, and minds….. while they continue to launch ever more vicious assaults….. such as all those “peaceful” rioters ….
They are despicable. Period.
And their criticisms stick with people. I am sure there are many people who think Justice Kavanaugh assaulted and raped women. The Democrats have no shame.
And those same people will claim that Bill Clinton did not rape any women.
https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1309970516669853699?s=20
LOL.
Well behaved Crowd there.
A well boo-haved crowd!
My kind of peaceful protest!
ACB loves her country, the Constitution and God. How terrible, she must be destroyed. Crying Chuck has no tears left I’m sure we’ll be hearing that she was one of the mean girls during 5th grade band practice which makes her disqualified. Hey BLM, Antifa, Liberals….say her name!
Illinois Republican Party v. Pritzke doesn’t appear to be on this list.
Grin and Barrett ?
Where Are They Now?
Ballsey Ford . . . Sandra Fluke . . . Cindy Sheehan . . . Anita Hill . . . lying, delusional women used like snot tissues by demonrat opportunists . . and then tossed away when they were no longer useful. Are they in therapy sessions together? Who know . . . and who cares?
They got their $$ payoffs as promised.
What a beautiful family!!
Four of the five biological children look just like Amy. The older boy looks like Jessie.
Just move the arrow up one year…
ACB’s family showing All Lives Matter.
Man, Trump has come through in some very significant ways. He has secured my vote with this move.
Folks, ACB is a fine jurist and will do a great job on SCOTUS. For those of you dissing her or that have concerns, would you rather have RBG there instead?
time for debate over…now, time for confirmation!
We drafted her for the team and now we have to get her signed and in the dugout
TRUMP: “If confirmed, Justice Barrett will make history as the first mother of school age children to ever to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.”
Obviously, supremely qualified. Seems to be one of those rare individuals that everyone likes & wants to call a friend. The single thing she said in her speech that brought a big smile to my face was, “I clerked for Justice Scalia, his judicial philosophy is my judicial philosophy too.”
I think she may disappoint us a time or 2, but as long as she follows the Constitution I am fine with that.
5 Interesting Scalia Decisions: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/13/466696382/5-opinions-from-justice-antonin-scalia-that-are-worth-a-read
I was favorably impressed by the nomination. The universal support from among her fellow clerks and her law faculty speaks very well of her personality and temperance, since both groups will necessarily include some strongly Left-leaning legal minds. I expect she will be a consensus builder. I’m glad she went to Notre Dame, since it is not Harvard, Yale or Stanford. There should be more balance on the Court, some state law school graduates.
I think she will be difficult to block from the Dems, and concerted efforts will be purely partisan, and likely as ugly as Kavanaugh’s hearing, which didn’t do the Dems any good at all. I expect she will be seated on the Court in the fairly likely event that there will be litigation challenging the election.
It was another example of the President being Presidential, delivering on his promises. The transparency of his nomination process, maintaining a public list, then choosing from it, compares favorably to Biden’s refusal to say. From what we know of Joe’s style of Delaware corruption, he’ll probably want something in return for any important nomination. Plus he probably lacks the energy to go out and hustle any prospects.
Also, it is great to see the Republicans in the Senate, including Romney, fall in line.
By god! There is an inordinate number of trolls here tonight! Good Night!