Chuck Schumer: New Supreme Court justice should be considered after election
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer just spoke from the floor of the Senate and called the seat Justice Anthony Kennedy is leaving "the most important Supreme Court vacancy for this country in at least a generation."
Schumer then called on Republicans to "follow the rule they set in 2016 -- not to consider a Supreme Court justice in an election year."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has already announced he intends to hold a vote confirming President Trump's nominee this fall.
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar tweeted the American people must have a say. Her full tweet reads, “#Justice Kennedy was a swing vote in a critical case that affirmed Roe v. Wade. He was a key vote on gay marriage. He cannot be replaced by an ideologue. The American people must have a say.”
Judge Nap: The Key Issue After Justice Kennedy's Retirement Will Be Abortion
Judge Andrew Napolitano said Wednesday that after Justice Anthony Kennedy retires from the Supreme Court at the end of July, the key issue facing the court will be abortion.
Kennedy, 81, informed the White House of his plans Wednesday in a letter after 30 years of service.
Napolitano said on "The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino" that Kennedy has been the swing vote in hot-button cases.
He said that although Kennedy is Roman-Catholic and was appointed by Ronald Reagan, he's consistently sided with liberals on the topic of abortion.
ducks
you're so goddamn in stupid you don't have clue who's ing you over, like all Trash supporters.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 06-27-2018 at 04:08 PM.
Roe v wade will be fine.
im inclined to agree
its 45 year old precedent that was affirmed in casey v planned parenthood (although that case did away with the trimester stuff). you would think there would need to be some gargantuan showing of why they need to overturn it... tho we saw in today's ruling that some of these justices dont really have an issue overturning precedent willy nilly. but Roe was a 7-2 ruling. Casey was only 5-4
but that would be truly nuclear if they did. scalia had basically campaigned to overturn Roe while on the bench. in some of his dissents he would completely ignore and it say "abortion is not a fundamental right"... not even saying "abortion should not be..."
Last edited by spurraider21; 06-27-2018 at 03:33 PM.
Anthony Kennedy's retirement just confirmed every Republican's dream scenario for Trump
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/27/polit...ump/index.html
, Thomas, at 70 years old, is now the oldest of the conservative justices. Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, both reliable liberals on the court, are 85 and 79 respectively.
meh. the dream scenario was having liberals leave the bench
Ruth needs to go!!!!!
unelected judges making law for decades good now
He was able to nominate judges for 4 years
Liberals have won conservatives over to their position. Congrats!
lmao
supreme court is being boiled down to "who can nominate for 45 year old scalia/ginsberg idealogues"
Listen to the end. He knows it's coming.
List of federal judges appointed by Donald Trump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...y_Donald_Trump
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Donald Trump’s judicial appointments may prove his most enduring legacy
Everything else could in theory be reversed. His effect on the law will be profound
https://www.economist.com/united-sta...nduring-legacy
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Senate obstructionism handed a raft of judicial vacancies to Trump—what has he done with them?
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgo...cies-to-trump/
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It was saggy-face -ass McConnell who blocked judges under Obama, then killing the "blue" rule under Trump to block the Dems from blocking Repug judges.
They are called "Trump's judges" but, ignorant of all of them AND the law, Trump blindly nominates whomever The Federalist Soc, etc hand to him.
You say this like it's something new.
canada is not to far from the usa
"It's imperative that the President's nominee be considered fairly and not subjected to personal attacks" said Mitch McConnell with a straight face
kagan was 50
sotomayor was 54
breyer was 55
ginsburg was 60
average age of 55
thomas was 43
gorsuch was 49
roberts was 50
souter was 50
kennedy was 51
alito was 56
average age of 50
definitely a much younger skew on the conservative branch. not to mention garland, who obama nominated, was 63
before ginsburg, a democrat hadn't nominated a supreme court justice since 1968, and their last 3 nominees had been 58, 58, and 59
Ah okay, I misread your post.
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