Justice Kennedy to step down

[Smash]

For more than a decade, Justice Kennedy has infuriated the right, writing decisions in cases that struck down prayer at public school graduations, upheld abortion rights, gave constitutional protections to pornography and gay sex and banned the death penalty for juveniles.

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/27/...-next-justice-right-says-avoid-a-kennedy.html

Sorry, I see no reason to give one bit of thought to a justice in the mold of Anthony Kennedy. Libs would show no quarter in their selection, why should Trump. To quote the once great orator B. Hussein Obumma, "elections have consequences".

 

[SCSteeler4life]

This all but locks the SC as conservative leaning for the rest of my lifetime.

 

[deljzc]

The left might pull a "Weekend with Bernie" using Ginsberg's corpse if she kicks the bucket. The old bat is that important to the left right now. Otherwise they literally might all just form lemming lines and start jumping off the George Washington and Golden Gate bridges in mass.

 

[CharlesDavenport]

This is awesome. RBG is next.

 

[Smash]

It bears repeating...

Thank God for Trump. We surely dodged a bullet.

 

[SCSteeler4life]

It bears repeating...

Thank God for Trump. We surely dodged a bullet.

For some reason I just can't get Santana's song WINNING! out of my mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FmPg4lrBKc

 

[Tibs]

Whatever happened to Merrick Garland? I thought Presidents have the right to nominate SC judges. Whatever standards and practices that were used in Congress to delay/subvert his nomination will surely apply here, in an election year, correct?

 

[MTC]

and one wtf

Lol

 

[SCSteeler4life]

Whatever happened to Merrick Garland? I thought Presidents have the right to nominate SC judges. Whatever standards and practices that were used in Congress to delay/subvert his nomination will surely apply here, in an election year, correct?

They can whine and complain but legally they are screwed. I guess elections have consequences. Bend over Tibs , your president Trump needs you.

Without Kennedy, the court will be split between four liberal justices who were appointed by Democratic presidents and four conservatives who were named by Republicans. Trump's nominee is likely to give the conservatives a solid majority and will face a Senate process in which Republicans hold the slimmest majority, but Democrats can't delay confirmation.

 

[Tibs]

They can whine and complain but legally they are screwed. I guess elections have consequences. Bend over Tibs , your president Trump needs you. Without Kennedy, the court will be split between four liberal justices who were appointed by Democratic presidents and four conservatives who were named by Republicans. Trump's nominee is likely to give the conservatives a solid majority and will face a Senate process in which Republicans hold the slimmest majority, but Democrats can't delay confirmation.

Uhm, care to answer the question? That decision was brought by Mitch McConnell, surely he'll choose the same path this time around. What's fair is fair for the benefit of American voters. This is still a democracy, is it not?

 

[SCSteeler4life]

Uhm, care to answer the question? That decision was brought by Mitch McConnell, surely he'll choose the same path this time around. What's fair is fair for the benefit of American voters. This is still a democracy, is it not?

The senate had the power to stop the Garland appointment. You don't have that power anymore. Elections have consequences.

 

[Vader]

Uhm, care to answer the question? That decision was brought by Mitch McConnell, surely he'll choose the same path this time around. What's fair is fair for the benefit of American voters. This is still a democracy, is it not?

You know the answer. Either you are being dishonest and pretending not to know or you're hoping that we don't know.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Whatever happened to Merrick Garland? I thought Presidents have the right to nominate SC judges. Whatever standards and practices that were used in Congress to delay/subvert his nomination will surely apply here, in an election year, correct?

That was the Harry Reid Rule. Sucks when things come full circle, huh? Regardless, this is not a Presidential election year.

 

[Steeltime]

Uhm, care to answer the question? That decision was brought by Mitch McConnell, surely he'll choose the same path this time around. What's fair is fair for the benefit of American voters. This is still a democracy, is it not?

That was pending a PRESIDENTIAL election, i.e., the person to nominate the replacement, not a mid-term election.

"After the death of Scalia, Republican Senate leaders announced that they planned to hold no vote on any potential nomination during the president's last year in office."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...nominee/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5b7b5afc480b

Unless my calendar is wrong, this is not the President's "last year in office." Sorry, Tibs. Thank you for playing, and enjoy the home game version of "Supreme Court Nominees"!!!

 

[IndySteel]

Whatever happened to Merrick Garland? I thought Presidents have the right to nominate SC judges. Whatever standards and practices that were used in Congress to delay/subvert his nomination will surely apply here, in an election year, correct?

Garland was a nominee in a Presidential election year. This is not a Presidential election year, just like in 2010 when Obama nominated Kagan before the election.

Elections have consequences. (That never gets old now days)

 

[Spike]

BOOM!


hahahahaha

Libs heads asplodin' alert!

They melting down!



Anthony Kennedy's retirement just confirmed every Republican's dream scenario for Trump

(CNN)Anthony Kennedy's announcement of his retirement from the Supreme Court on Wednesday creates an opening for President Donald Trump to reshape the ideological makeup of the nation's highest court for decades to come, a best-case scenario for the Republican Party

President Donald Trump will replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy with one of 25 people from a previously released list, he affirmed on Wednesday after news broke that Kennedy, the court’s longtime swing vote, is retiring.

President Trump said the process of nominating a new justice will “begin immediately.”

"Hopefully we will pick someone who is just as outstanding," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. "It will be somebody from that list.”

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/27/politics/kennedy-retirement-donald-trump/index.html

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Elections have consequences!

 

[Vader]

You have 10 red states senators up for election. You think a few of them won't vote for the presidents nominee? The dems are in this mess because of them using the nuclear option during Reid's time. Reaping and sowing.

 

[SCSteeler4life]

You have 10 red states senators up for election. You think a few of them won't vote for the presidents nominee? The dems are in this mess because of them using the nuclear option during Reid's time. Reaping and sowing.

Not to mention Obama nominated Sotomayer in August right before mid term elections. Face it the libs are screwed. Damn things could not be going in better for Trump.

 

[Vader]

Not to mention Obama nominated Sotomayer in August right before mid term elections. Face it the libs are screwed. Damn things could not be going in better for Trump.

Yea, Schumer bitched about BHO not getting his Garlin pick but that was just a lie because he knows damn well about the Sotomayer pick in 2010. The dems are ****** and they know it. They just are grabbing at straws and praying to allah that something sticks.

 

[Spike]

They can easily get that seat filled before the midterms, and the Dems can't do anything to stop it. Hell, three Senate Dems voted for Gorsuch, we only need 50 votes total now thanks to McConnell killing the filibuster for SCOTUS nominees.

But yeah, this will really get the votes out for the GOP now, people love WINNERS!

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

I think it's worth piling on and it cannot be said enough. There's so much truth in the words...

 

[hamster]

I think it's worth piling on and it cannot be said enough. There's so much truth in the words...

I think it is poetic justice that all of Obama's gloatings are really coming back to haunt him. Obama had his run, and in the process, helped destroy the Democratic Party. Elections have consequences. LMFAO!!!!!

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Garland was a nominee in a Presidential election year. This is not a Presidential election year, just like in 2010 when Obama nominated Kagan before the election.

Elections have consequences. (That never gets old now days)

Quoted for troof.

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

Not everyone is happy.

I keep saying...we're heading to a dark place. This is another Hollywooder, just speaking his mind. Peter Fonda, Kathy Griffin, Maxine Waters...let's get violent!

 

[Steelworth]

Does that dumb-**** Curtis Kook realize that if he retired or died (classy BTW), it wouldn't matter re: a new Trump nomination?