Anthony Kennedy just announced his retirement!

[DrLove]

Oh HELL YEAH! Trump's election was worth TWO SCOTUS picks. Damn I like WINING!!

One pick legit. One pick stolen.

One day soon that's gonna bite their sorry asses in the keister.
And I hope McTurtle is around to see his "great accomplishment" go PooF!!
What goes around, COMES around

 

[Avatar4321]

Totally unbelievable


The liberals screwed up so bad.

Gorsuch's seat was a stolen seat. You shouldn't be so proud of yourselves. But of course, shame isn't part of the vocabulary if you support Trump.

His seat was not stolen. Enough with the lies

It is your inability to be honest that makes all of your holier than thou religious shit meaningless.

Why am I not surprised you are here to defend lies?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Kennedy takes a dump on his own legacy, letting the dotard replace him with a sycophant

I do wish he would have held on till after Nov so the new congress could have had a part in it.

Figure out why he didn't.

Perhaps he thinks that the Dems will win the Senate back.

As the Senate stands now, it is not hard to imagine at least two Senators will rebel against any far right pick. We might well end up with a more reasonable pick then people assume.

McCain will not be able to vote. Too sick.

No vote is the same as a Nay vote.

 

[Bush92]

Any thought on this? Does this help recruit for GOP or Dems?

the conventional wisdom is that leaving the seat vacant will cause republicans to get out the vote the way it did in 2016...I have no idea if that is fact or not but I do know everyone on the right was hoping for a conservative court so it makes some sense

I wouldn't take the chance. If I'm the GOP I nominate somebody in the next 30 days, push him through the Senate hearings, and vote the person in. Unless of course they don't have at least 50 votes, that prick McCain would love to play the maverick one last time.

He’s knocked-out in a hospital bed and can’t be moved.

 

[OKTexas]

The only bias would be against idiots like you that want to destroy the Constitution.

Well, considering everyone knows it is polically biased, and will now be more so...you kind of sound like a fucking moron. Nobody thinks you actually believe what you are saying. And that makes you a liar, too.

Well dumb ass, a judges obligation is to apply the law and the Constitution AS WRITTEN, they aren't legislators. If a law doesn't comport with the Constitution it is their job to strike it down and send it back to the legislator to fix, not try to fix it themselves. If you disagree with that you have no clue what the constitutional roll of a judge is.


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[Marion Morrison]

Well there are elections in in November and according to scumbag GOP and the Dupes, that means we should wait until after the election to support a new nomination LOL. At any rate we will never regain our status as a great leading country until Democrats control the the government again like 2 months under Obama and under LBJ...

We WILL go nuke and have a CONSERVATIVE SCOTUS pick in 60 days. And there is not a godamn thing liberals can do about it.

Well there are elections in in November and according to scumbag GOP and the Dupes, that means we should wait until after the election to support a new nomination LOL. At any rate we will never regain our status as a great leading country until Democrats control the the government again like 2 months under Obama and under LBJ...

We WILL go nuke and have a CONSERVATIVE SCOTUS pick in 60 days. And there is not a godamn thing liberals can do about it.

What is that Fury, they will go nuke what is it? Is it just a vote on party lines or is it something else?

"Going nuclear" is something Democrats made up when they were in Congress to benefit themselves.


Before, they had to have 60 votes for a confirmation, Democrats changed it to where it can be 51-49, or 50-50 with a tiebreaker from the VP. Now it is biting them right in the ass!

 

[Avatar4321]

Democrats have to refuse hearings till after the election.

Then they will proceed without them

 

[Wyatt earp]

Confirmed by Fox News.

There's an old saying....be very careful for what you ask for....should Roe V Wade get overturned, and hispanics and blacks multiplying like a bad college math exam...I'd say we're poised in a few more years to pretty much take over this country......White people are decreasing in child births and minorities are increasing...that is fact. Another fact is white women are more likely to use abortion than anybody, so who you hurting? I'm not gonna live long enough to see the brown invasion, but I hope our beloved Christian community is prepared to babysit!!

It doesn't matter , we just loaded the supreme court...for decades

 

[SSGT Bags]

What happens should the senate flip? Would a new majority leader hold hearings for a Trump nominee?

If the Senate flips, we block every nominee until Trump is gone. That precedent has been set.

WOW, keep up your reputation of blocking everything, stomping your foot until you get your way.
Dig yourself a deeper hole so that even more Americans see through your childish no compromise attitude.
The Democrats are burying themselves. Just go howl at the moon some more.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Well there are elections in in November and according to scumbag GOP and the Dupes, that means we should wait until after the election to support a new nomination LOL. At any rate we will never regain our status as a great leading country until Democrats control the the government again like 2 months under Obama and under LBJ...

We WILL go nuke and have a CONSERVATIVE SCOTUS pick in 60 days. And there is not a godamn thing liberals can do about it.

How confident are you in Collins or McCain or Flake walking in lock-step with the rest of the GOP?

Forget McCain Gator...he is so ill he will not be able to get back to the capitol to vote....

That might well be true, but no vote is a good as a nay.

McCain would never vote for a Trump nominee....not after this last year...

Then you better hope that Collins or Flake toe the line

 

[Circe]

The administration better wrap this up before the mid-terms. If the Democrats take the Senate; which I believe to be unlikely, they can stymie the President's nomination until the cows home.

I entirely agree. We think a change in the majority of the Senate is unlikely...................but then, everyone thought Hillary would win, too! So put a hitch on it, Mr. President, choose someone good and GET HIM VOTED IN.

 

[Godboy]

Meh. The pendulum will swing back eventually. Hopefully before it’s too late.

It's too late.

 

[DrLove]

Well there are elections in in November and according to scumbag GOP and the Dupes, that means we should wait until after the election to support a new nomination LOL. At any rate we will never regain our status as a great leading country until Democrats control the the government again like 2 months under Obama and under LBJ...

We WILL go nuke and have a CONSERVATIVE SCOTUS pick in 60 days. And there is not a godamn thing liberals can do about it.

How confident are you in Collins or McCain or Flake walking in lock-step with the rest of the GOP?

Flake has voted with Trump on something like 90+% of the issues, he's just vocal against Trump's rhetoric and conduct, rightfully so.

Trump didn't put a far right ideologue in there the first time. I doubt he will again. But it will be someone who leans right for sure.

I actually agree with you, I do not think he will. And if he does not and gives us another Gorsuch, I will be a happy camper.

Love to think he wouldn't give us another Gorsuch (fuck my spellcheck that forever turns his name to Grouch)

But brace yourself - might be even worse - Betsy DeVos?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Confirmed by Fox News.

There's an old saying....be very careful for what you ask for....should Roe V Wade get overturned, and hispanics and blacks multiplying like a bad college math exam...I'd say we're poised in a few more years to pretty much take over this country......White people are decreasing in child births and minorities are increasing...that is fact. Another fact is white women are more likely to use abortion than anybody, so who you hurting? I'm not gonna live long enough to see the brown invasion, but I hope our beloved Christian community is prepared to babysit!!

It doesn't matter , we just loaded the supreme court...for decades

Who is we? you are a far left socialist who thinks that it takes a village. you should be pissed as anyone based upon your views.

 

[Wyatt earp]

Well there are elections in in November and according to scumbag GOP and the Dupes, that means we should wait until after the election to support a new nomination LOL. At any rate we will never regain our status as a great leading country until Democrats control the the government again like 2 months under Obama and under LBJ...

We WILL go nuke and have a CONSERVATIVE SCOTUS pick in 60 days. And there is not a godamn thing liberals can do about it.

Well there are elections in in November and according to scumbag GOP and the Dupes, that means we should wait until after the election to support a new nomination LOL. At any rate we will never regain our status as a great leading country until Democrats control the the government again like 2 months under Obama and under LBJ...

We WILL go nuke and have a CONSERVATIVE SCOTUS pick in 60 days. And there is not a godamn thing liberals can do about it.

What is that Fury, they will go nuke what is it? Is it just a vote on party lines or is it something else?

"Going nuclear" is something Democrats made up when they were in Congress to benefit themselves.


Before, there had to have 60 votes, Democrats changed it to where it can be 51-49, or 50-50 with a tiebreaker from the VP. Now it is biting them right in the ass!

Harry is crying he didn't see the red wave coming

 

[task0778]

Any thought on this? Does this help recruit for GOP or Dems?

the conventional wisdom is that leaving the seat vacant will cause republicans to get out the vote the way it did in 2016...I have no idea if that is fact or not but I do know everyone on the right was hoping for a conservative court so it makes some sense

I wouldn't take the chance. If I'm the GOP I nominate somebody in the next 30 days, push him through the Senate hearings, and vote the person in. Unless of course they don't have at least 50 votes, that prick McCain would love to play the maverick one last time.

Also, it would really be the wishes of Kennedy wouldn't it? His timing was not random, this was with the realization that he needs to do it now to ensure a strong, loyal constitutional replacement.

No doubt. Although he wasn't exactly a true RWer. Consider:

Early in his Supreme Court tenure, Kennedy voted with Rehnquist and the conservative bloc 90 percent of the time, including striking down an affirmative action program requiring set-asides for black-owned construction firms and upholding a law requiring minors seeking abortions to first get permission from a parent.

But Kennedy also showed early on that his decisions weren't based on political ideology, siding with his liberal colleagues in 1989 to uphold a ruling that protesters had a Constitutional right to burn the American flag.

In 1992, he voted with the liberal wing again, ruling that legal restrictions on access to abortion must not constitute an "undue burden" on a woman's right to abortion established in the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision.

He also voted to extend constitutional protections to gays and lesbians, writing the 1996 opinion striking down a Colorado constitutional amendment denying homosexuals the right to file local discrimination claims. He also sided with the court's liberal wing in 2003 in declaring unconstitutional a Texas law criminalizing sodomy between consenting adults of the same sex.

But many conservatives believed that Kennedy redeemed himself when he cast the deciding vote in the landmark case of Gore vs. Bush that ended a recount in Florida of the presidential election and sent Republican George W. Bush to the White House.

In 2015, Kennedy was again slammed as a conservative traitor when he cast the deciding vote in two landmark cases.

Not only did he cast the deciding vote guaranteeing the right to same-sex marriage, he wrote the majority opinion: "It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization's oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right."

That same year, Kennedy voted to uphold a key component of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, allowing the federal government to provide nationwide tax subsidies to help Americans buy health insurance.

Anthony Kennedy, crucial Supreme Court swing vote, retiring after 3 decades

 

[Darkwind]

I do wish he would have held on till after Nov so the new congress could have had a part in it.

Figure out why he didn't.

Perhaps he thinks that the Dems will win the Senate back.

As the Senate stands now, it is not hard to imagine at least two Senators will rebel against any far right pick. We might well end up with a more reasonable pick then people assume.

2 senators?! 49 senators will have their panties bunched up very much like you. Alas, that is not enough.

Yes, two senators. How confident are you in Collins or McCain or Flake walking in lock-step with the rest of the GOP?

I am hoping for a reasonable choice like Gorsuch was.

On this, they will. Gorsuch is fine. Gowdy would be my pick.

It does give one a reason to pause that the timing of Goudy leaving the House of Representatives.

 

[francoHFW]

Just heard on ABC News radio.

/----/ Rush predicts that the Leftards will demand that Trump not name a nominee until Muller concludes his investigation on Collusion otherwise if Trump is removed from office the USSC appointee will be seen as illegitimate. AND I AGREE WITH RUSH.

The filthy Democrats can march around in their pink pussy hats and howl at the sky all they want.

The Republicans control the Senate. They control the committee and they have established the rule for a simple majority vote.

The new judge will be confirmed before the election and there ain't a damn thing the Democrat filth can do about it.

MAGA Baby!

The greedy idiot GOP billionaire scumbags thank you!

The billionaires are the ones that supported Obama in 2008 and 2012 and Crooked Hillary in 2016 so if I was a stupid Moon Bat like you I wouldn't be too critical of them.

Greedy a****** GOP billionaires want tax cuts for themselves and to screw you, democratic billionaires want higher taxes on themselves and to help you and the country, ignoramus GOP zombie...
Democrats.org

 

[Wyatt earp]

Confirmed by Fox News.

There's an old saying....be very careful for what you ask for....should Roe V Wade get overturned, and hispanics and blacks multiplying like a bad college math exam...I'd say we're poised in a few more years to pretty much take over this country......White people are decreasing in child births and minorities are increasing...that is fact. Another fact is white women are more likely to use abortion than anybody, so who you hurting? I'm not gonna live long enough to see the brown invasion, but I hope our beloved Christian community is prepared to babysit!!

It doesn't matter , we just loaded the supreme court...for decades

Who is we? you are a far left socialist who thinks that it takes a village. you should be pissed as anyone based upon your views.

Says the moron accounted who thinks Obama gave him is wealth...

 

[Marion Morrison]

Well there are elections in in November and according to scumbag GOP and the Dupes, that means we should wait until after the election to support a new nomination LOL. At any rate we will never regain our status as a great leading country until Democrats control the the government again like 2 months under Obama and under LBJ...

We WILL go nuke and have a CONSERVATIVE SCOTUS pick in 60 days. And there is not a godamn thing liberals can do about it.

Well there are elections in in November and according to scumbag GOP and the Dupes, that means we should wait until after the election to support a new nomination LOL. At any rate we will never regain our status as a great leading country until Democrats control the the government again like 2 months under Obama and under LBJ...

We WILL go nuke and have a CONSERVATIVE SCOTUS pick in 60 days. And there is not a godamn thing liberals can do about it.

What is that Fury, they will go nuke what is it? Is it just a vote on party lines or is it something else?

"Going nuclear" is something Democrats made up when they were in Congress to benefit themselves.


Before, there had to have 60 votes, Democrats changed it to where it can be 51-49, or 50-50 with a tiebreaker from the VP. Now it is biting them right in the ass!

Harry is crying he didn't see the red wave coming

He pushed that "nuclear" crap through. I hope he's pulling his hair out. For the record, I still think it was a bad idea. That was pure partisan politicking.

You know, Democrats and Republicans used to get together and compromise on issues that really mattered. I haven't seen that happen in years, at least since pre-inauguration appointments.