Democrats Are Fighting Trump’s Judges
Like Never Before, But Trump’s Still Winning
The Federalist,
by
Ilya Shapiro
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
9/6/2020 5:41:14 AM
President Trump, who wouldn’t have won had it not been for the Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, has now ensured that a major part of his legacy is in the judiciary. Having appointed nearly a third of all circuit judges — a record 30 in his first two years, about the same as Bush and Obama combined at that point in their presidencies, and 50 in three (where Obama had 55 in two terms) — he has also had back-to-back Supreme Court picks. And Justices Ginsburg (87), Breyer (82), and Thomas (72) aren’t getting any younger.
(Snip)a president has few constitutional powers more important than picking judges.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 9/6/2020 5:59:17 AM (No. 532838)
A major part of President Trump's legacy, indeed. During a Trump second term, a third SCOTUS nomination is all but certain. And a fourth is quite possible. The judiciary has been the bedrock of America. The judiciary fosters reason. Reason fosters rule of law. Rule of law fosters a civil society. This is America. Despite the dims' thinking to the contrary.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
FunOne 9/6/2020 7:06:32 AM (No. 532875)
The other half of the equation leading to this success is republican control of the senate. A Trump reelection will also require a republican senate or the conservative judges appointments will hit a brick wall. We need to have at least 53 republicans in the senate to make up for the unreliable RINO votes of Mitt Romney from Utah, Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, and Susan Collins of Maine. All three of these seem to have embraced the "maverick" role that the despicable John McCain enjoyed playing.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
LLAMA 9/6/2020 7:49:10 AM (No. 532907)
I disagree with reply #2 in some respects. John McCain served his country in the Navy with distinction and was a POW for many years. I respect him for that, and it was only in his waning years while he was suffering from brain cancer that he did some strange things. All in all, he deserves some slack.
Susan Collins made the speech of the decade and showed immeasurable political courage in casting the deciding vote for Judge Kavenaugh. She also deserves some slack for that.
But I can't find in me any slack anywhere for the deplorable actions of Mitt Romney.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Venturer 9/6/2020 8:25:03 AM (No. 532935)
I disagree with Nuimber 3
He served, he was a POW.
With Distinction?------matter of opinion.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 9/6/2020 9:25:04 AM (No. 532984)
I disagree with #3 in that McCain did not wait for cancer to be a "maverick". He lived for the loving attention that the press gave him for reaching across the aisle and kicking us in the face doing it.
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The Phoenix New Times wrote this about McCain in 1989:
The story of "the Keating Five" has become a scandal rivaling Teapot Dome and Watergate. The outcome will be decided, not in a courtroom, but probably on national television.
Those who survive will be the sociopaths who can tell a lie with the most sincere, straight face. You (McCain) are especially adept at this.
His worst legislation is the McCain/Feingold Amendment, which gutted the First Amendment's protection of political speech (the kind of speech the Amendment was specifically designed to protect).
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Kitty Myers 9/6/2020 10:15:40 AM (No. 533037)
What #5 said.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
franq 9/6/2020 10:19:36 AM (No. 533042)
I don't know, #1, my faith in the judiciary is dwindling as police look the other way or stand down, while looters and rioters make mayhem. We could have a 100% conservative SC, and what difference would it make at a local level?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Zigrid 9/6/2020 10:30:45 AM (No. 533057)
The book... "Trump Prophecies"... written by a retired firefighter... was told in 2012... President Trump would run in 2016 and win.... he also says that President Trump will serve two terms and appoint five Supreme Court Justices...considering the ages of three of the current Justices... we are well on our way to the five mentioned in his book....
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
NotaBene 9/6/2020 12:20:33 PM (No. 533171)
I learned from the article that the democrats packed the Federal Judiciary by 150 judges under Jimmy Carter. The judicial branch is still suffering from this leftist trickery.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
cor-vet 9/6/2020 12:30:52 PM (No. 533179)
If the lying, sleazy dems ever take control, we could see 1 to 15 Supreme Court judges, however many it takes for a solid lib majority. And we will have that all-powerful federal judge for life, in Hawaii, making up laws for the rest of the country, for a long time.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 9/6/2020 12:33:49 PM (No. 533181)
I heard a saying many years ago about the Presidency: "Many men seek the office, but the office seeks the man.". We have Donald Trump in the office because God wants him there and there he will stay to continue to save our country. Thank you God for your many blessings, and thank you President Trump for doing such a fabulous job. MAGA KAGA! Another Vietnam Vet for Trump!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
pensom2 9/6/2020 12:40:47 PM (No. 533187)
I disagree with #3. I'm old enough to have a clear recollection of the "Keating Five" scandal (I was Senior Vice President of a bank at the time of the demise of the savings and loan business precipitated by the Charles Keating scandal).
I'm also old enough to clearly recall how US Senator John McCain fell for Cindy McCain (18 years his junior) while he was married to his first wife, Carol, bought a marriage certificate with Cindy four weeks before his divorce from Carol was completed, and married Cindy two weeks after the divorce. Cindy, an heiress, is worth $200,000,000.
McCain also created a loophole for himself in the McCain-Feingold Act which limited "soft money" contributions to political candidates. The Act specifically exempted Indian Tribes from the limitations on personal contributions to political candidates. At the time, McCain sat on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee and received massive campaign contributions from tribes with casinos. The exemption permitted Indian tribes to use TRIBAL, GOVERNMENT funds to give unlimited “individual” donations of $1,000 each to an unlimited number of candidates.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 9/6/2020 2:56:12 PM (No. 533292)
The federal judiciary is the enemy of the people. It is an autocratic body, un-elected, un-accountable. un-American. The entire process of installing black-robed tyrants is partisan politics. This explodes the fiction that there can ever be such a thing as an "independent" judiciary. Judges always rule from their personal biases. That is why virtually every decision is 5-4. Packing the courts with your favorite flavor of judicial activism is a loser's game. The courts will always drift toward totalitarian socialism & autocracy. They will always seek the headlines for a "landmark" decision that destroys liberty and empowers the Deep State.
The federal judiciary must be de-funded, dismantled, and demolished. It is the enemy of the people.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 9/6/2020 6:46:17 PM (No. 533411)
Thank you, #9 and #12, I do heartily agree. (I thank Isaiah for his prophecy in Chapter 45.) Take a look at a book by Lance Wallnau, ''God's Chaos Candidate: Donald J. Trump and the American Unraveling.'' This election is America's last chance to save the republic.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
cav16 9/6/2020 7:56:11 PM (No. 533432)
#3, I disagree with you also about John McCain! John McCain was instrumental in shutting down the effort to continue to investigate/search for POWs in Southeast Asia. I sponsored Col Nick Rowe to speak to one of our Officer Advanced Course classes at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. For those of you who don't know Col Rowe was a POW of the Viet Cong and NVA for five years. Col Rowe at the time I invited him to speak was the Commander of the Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) School at Fort Bragg, NC. On his second visit my wife and I took him out to dinner and after dinner I ask him if he thought we still had POWs in SEA. Without hesitation he replied without a doubt! Just broke my heart! This occurred in 1983. What little respect I had for John McCain dissipated!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 9/6/2020 8:38:16 PM (No. 533447)
#3, did you ever hear of the Keating Five? McCain was on the wrong side of that scandal, but managed to get away with it. Shouldn't have, IMO. And he was a backstabber of conservatives forever.
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I love that junk yard dog. The President is answered prayers, but he is looking really tired after four grueling years. We need to keep praying.
Soros has a lot of State AG's in place. Your vote is more important now than ever.
Let US not forget the Bush part of the Keating Five.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
thehutchcom 9/7/2020 2:12:12 AM (No. 533549)
Trump benefited so much from the Democrats' certainty that they would win in 2016. Obama had left a ton of judges' seats empty for Hillary to fill, anticipating that there would be more Democrats in the legislature after 2016. When Trump found out how many judges' seats he had open to fill, his jaw dropped. An absolute blessing to him and to us!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
thehutchcom 9/7/2020 2:15:47 AM (No. 533550)
Poster #3 is flat wrong. McCain deserves praise for his service in the military but as a Senator he was awful. He was the "Republican" that the press loved to have in the fourth square of Nightline because he was certain to say something negative about Republicans. That was true in the 1990s and the 2000s. Anyone thinking otherwise wasn't paying attention.
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