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The United States Senate should kill any nominee that isn’t of the same ideological composition as Justice Antonin Scalia. The Constitutional prerogative of the Senate to provide “advice and consent” should be exercised to advise the President that only a Scalia-type nominee will be consented to. Any other type of nominee shall result in the Senate exercising its Constitutional right to withhold consent.
1. That isn’t happening. Please stop your lunatic rants
2. The senators need to be very careful here. Just because the republicans have a majority now, doesn’t mean they would have one in January of 2017. They should use their power to make sure the newly appointed justice is more center than left. If they hold out they can lose their power all together and we’ll get another Kagan.
Will you say the same thing when Ruth Bader Ginsberg Dies/Retires?
That “The United States Senate should kill any nominee that isn’t of the same ideological composition as Justice [Ginsberg]”?
The United States Senate should kill any nominee that isn’t
of the same ideological composition as Justice Antonin Scalia.
Do we have the death penalty for that?
Well, Mr. Luchos, my suggested gambit has paid off and proven correct, you’ll have to admit.
Well, Mr. Luchos, my suggested gambit has paid off and proven correct, you’ll have to admit.
And when the power shifts and the Democrats have the Senate in a Republican president’s fourth year, you’re not going to get a conservative jurist on the bench then either.
The sword swings both ways.
The Wolf
Wolf: correct, but now we need to replace one justice. And he or she will most likely be a conservative, given the Republican control. We don’t know what the situation will be in four years.
That’s a price well worth potentially paying, Mr. Wolf, for having very successfully staved off a radical swing right now from a centrist court to a liberal court that would have had generation lasting ramifications.
The liklihood is that Trump will be able to replace not only Scalia but also Ginsburg and Kennedy and perhaps Breyer as well. This would mean that by 2024 (if Trump gets re-elected, and the Senate stays Republican) the court will tend to be 7-2 for conservatives and originalists. Since the court in recent years has moved away from deciding cases based on precedent, it will be open season for revisiting many of the socially controversial cases.
Ginsburg and Breyer will not retire while Trump is President. Trump will only get to replace them if they die. Also, assuming the Trump will nominate originalists is tenuous.
benignuman, they might become incapacitated (health) or pass away during his term(s).
I understand that Trump pledged to only only nominate conservatives in the mold of Scalia, who are pro-life, etc. And produced a list of judges conservatives are happy with.
Also, assuming the Trump will nominate originalists is tenuous.
he could always imitate the left and nominate ideologues. Gets to a similar place.
Joseph,
He did do that, but Trump keeping a pledge is not something I would hang my hat on.
PBA,
How many conservative ideologue judges are there? If they just rubber stamp government positions it will be tragic.
Trump, at 70, is the oldest person ever elected president. My guess is that he will be at most a one-term president. One thing we don’t have to worry about — unlike Obama, his hair won’t turn gray.
One other thing — he’s probably going to be the last draft dodger elected president. The draft effectively ended in 1972, so you’d have to have been born before 1953 to have been drafted.
Trump isn’t much older than Reagan was when first elected. Hillary isn’t much younger than him either. Bloomberg, who seriously considered running, is a number of years older than Trump.
Justice Antonin Scalia ?’? tragically was assassinated by someone who was a liberal; Hence they signed off on a suspicious death without an autopsy. Strange? .. This was the beginning of the end for Hillary’s campaign.
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