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Anthony Kennedy Retiring
Winning!
All hail Trump and McConnell! Yes, it’s really happening! Whatever else President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have done for us or to us, they will soon give us a conservative Supreme Court majority that could last for a generation. Kennedy is retiring, and thanks to Trump and McConnell, his replacement will be a Constitutional conservative.
I’ve been saying for a while now, give America 3% growth, and we will win in 2018 and confirm a conservative SCOTUS majority. The 3% growth is here, and so is the SCOTUS majority. I’m not sure we could ask for much more from a Republican president.
Published in GeneralFrom CNN:
Washington (CNN) Justice Anthony Kennedy, a conservative who provided key votes for same sex-marriage, abortion access and affirmative action, will retire from the Supreme Court.
The retirement is effective July 31, Kennedy said in a letter to President Donald Trump on Wednesday.
Kennedy’s decision to step down could transform the Supreme Court for generations. Trump will have his second opportunity to nominate a justice and will likely replace Kennedy with a young, conservative jurist. That would create a bloc of five staunch conservative justices who could move the court further to the right and cement a conservative majority for the foreseeable future.
The nomination battle will likely ignite a firestorm on Capitol Hill as it comes just a year after Republicans changed the rules of the Senate in order to push through the nomination of Justice Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s first nominee.A senior White House official said Trump will push for the swift confirmation of a new Supreme Court justice “before the midterm elections.”
I, TBA, totes swear to administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal…oh, you didn’t mean me.
How embarrassing.
If she retires she’ll have more time to rehearse for her cameo in the upcoming RBG 2: Electric Boogaloo.
Here’s a tweet from Dan Rather, who I believe used to be a news reporter of some kind, “Justice Kennedy retiring… If you are deeply disturbed, absorb the shock. But respond with even more determination.” Such a shock. An 81 year old man decides to retire. Who possibly could have seen this coming?
Evidence that journalism is dead, replaced by hack partisans: CNN claiming Kennedy is conservative. At the very best, Kennedy was a moderate liberal.
But, but…he was appointed by a Republican! For some reason, journos think that is absolutely dispositive of a justice’s philosophical position.
Which leads to the question: If Churchill was right about having no brain if you’re not conservative later in life, why is it that jurists with lifetime appointments tend to drift left?
It depends on what you mean by, “conservative.” He certainly was not an Originalist, but he did have something of a libertarian streak.
I suppose I was more making a point out of what CNN thinks a conservative is. Apparently, it’s anyone who is not hard Left.
Determination to do what? To do as Maxine Waters and her Democrat friends suggest?
Well, you have to admit it is rare in government.
We currently have Eight Senators who are 80 years old or older. (Seventeen who are in their 70s.)
List of Senators by Age.
The only thing Trump got wrong: None of us is ever going to get sick of winning!
The only downside would be the loss of Law Talk (although sales of McRib would skyrocket – buy McDonalds stock).
Yes! In drag, trans, or just as he is, Cruz would be great!
Exactly.
What have we won regarding this issue yet? We don’t know who is even nominated. If anything the “winning” credit should go to Anthony Kennedy.
The MSM will probably did up some statements made in the past and say, “This is how the nominee would answer is he wasn’t dodging the question.”
Cruz can say he identifies as a Supreme Court justice, then we can skip the vote all together . . .
What to make of POTUS praising Kennedy today as a “man of vision”? I hope they don’t share that vision.
Standard boilerplate.
It’s like when a nasty Democrat politician dies, and even Republicans will take a moment to say something nice.
Democrats rarely return this kind of sentiment. (See Scalia, et al)
I think he is just saying something polite and nice.
We have won delicious schadenfreude. A bounty of leftist tears – enough to float the soon-to-be-increased Navy.
Chris Matthews: “This is the time for vengeance.”
So much for civility.
He’s being genteel and magnanimous, something the left is incapable of doing (think of Barbara Bush’s passing and the loony professor’s tweets).
McCain most likely will. As for the others, it depends on how vocal their Trump-supporting constituents get . . .
Unless your name is Ruth Bader Ginsberg.