Supreme Court Justices (post Trump Victory 2016)

eruby · Jan 13, 2017

zoostation said:

She is NO ONE's precious.

:puke:

esqappellate · Jan 13, 2017

ryan_j said:
I want Hardiman. The dissent he wrote in Drake was epic.

Agreed! ANd the Dems would have a very hard time filibustering him.

Alea Jacta Est · Jan 13, 2017

zoostation said:
I can't imagine it won't be too much longer before Ruth Bader Gollum wants to retire as well. But I could be wrong. She seems like a true fanatic so may want to stay forever just to push her agenda.

Pillow dat b1tch.

rbird7282 · Jan 13, 2017

boundlessdyad said:
The old witch won't live long enough to have a Democrat name her replacement.

Let's hope not

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Southwest Chuck · Jan 14, 2017

krucam said:
SCOTUSBlog is doing detailed write-ups of the potential Trump Justice nominees. This appears to be ongoing. Only looked at the Pryor write-up but very thorough.

http://www.scotusblog.com/category/...potential-nominees-to-succeed-justice-scalia/

Thanks for the link. Looking at Raymond Gruender, this gives me some concern ....

Gruender also has a compelling personal story. When he was in law school, his father, angered after Gruender’s mother fled to avoid spousal abuse, pulled a gun on Gruender and his siblings, shooting Gruender and his sister, and later committing suicide. According to an official Minnesota State Bar Association publication, Gruender “knocked his father to the floor before his 12-year-old brother could be shot.”

Also, there seems to be little or no 2A decisions he's been involved with, so it;s hard to get a read on the guy.

danb · Jan 16, 2017

Cruz has evidently turned down a Supreme Court appointment. Pryor meets with Trump.

Alas, Cruz declined — mainly because, well, he still wants to be president. As one of his friends told Politico, “Who knows what’s gonna happen eight years from now? Ted would be a young man…. [T]hat’s another negative to being a Supreme Court justice, it’s a lifetime commitment…. Ted wasn’t ready to lay down his sword and pick up a pen for the rest of his life.”

I am not ready to bet on Pryor just yet, for a quite a few reasons. I do not think that the nuclear option for SCT nominees is on the table (I think that they had to change the rules at the beginning of the term, which they did not).

The two finalists for Solicitor General appear to be George Conway and Chuck Cooper. Cooper is a Sessions confidant, Conway is, well, Kellyanne Conway's husband.

Cooper evidently has an interesting history from the Reagan administration's Solicitor General's office involvement in a civil rights case (Bob Jones University).

rockstarr · Jan 17, 2017

I wonder when we are going to find out who is nominated for scalia replacement

danb · Jan 17, 2017

rockstarr said:
I wonder when we are going to find out who is nominated for scalia replacement

Two weeks.

In this case that might literally be true.

I wish I knew what the holdup was. There might be some dominoes that need to fall first like official confirmation of Sessions and confirmation of a solicitor general.

krucam · Jan 17, 2017

danb said:
Two weeks.

In this case that might literally be true.

I wish I knew what the holdup was. There might be some dominoes that need to fall first like official confirmation of Sessions and confirmation of a solicitor general.

And a pesky matter of being a President-Elect vs President...

CrueChief · Jan 17, 2017

According to "Varney and CO" on FBN Judge Andrew Napolitano was up to Trump tower this morning to give his input as to the candidates for SC appointment. So it shouldn't be long for the official announcement.

annihilation-time · Jan 17, 2017

CrueChief said:
According to "Varney and CO" on FBN Judge Andrew Napolitano was up to Trump tower this morning to give his input as to the candidates for SC appointment. So it shouldn't be long for the official announcement.

I couldn't be more excited.

Garet Jax · Jan 19, 2017

swinokur said:
Didn't Harry Reid remove the 60 vote requirement when he removed it for Federal judges?

If he also removed for SCJ then Obama would have been able to get his justice appointed last year and there wouldn't be a spot left for Trump to fill.

danb · Jan 23, 2017

still two weeks away from a nomination.... It's looking to me like we won't get a nomination until Trump's cabinet is confirmed.

redeemed.man · Jan 23, 2017

abeaty said:
If he also removed for SCJ then Obama would have been able to get his justice appointed last year and there wouldn't be a spot left for Trump to fill.

How so? Republicans were in control of the Senate last year as well.

swinokur · Jan 23, 2017

Yep the Senate took no action of Merrick Garland precisely because the R's hold the Senate.

danb · Jan 23, 2017

Incidentally, in case you missed it, efforts to split the 9th circuit are gaining steam again.

http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/315354-gop-eyes-new-push-to-break-up-california-court

motorcoachdoug · Jan 23, 2017

I hope they do. It needs to be broken up as well. To bad they cant do anything to 4CA. Would love to see that one broken up as well.

danb · Jan 23, 2017

Fox News: Gorsuch is Front Runner.

swinokur · Jan 23, 2017

He was rated 2 out of 3 judges in his "Scalianess."

DC-W · Jan 23, 2017

swinokur said:
He was rated 2 out of 3 judges in his "Scalianess."

The only 3-3 in Scalianess is Scalia.

2-3 doesn't sound too bad.

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