Sources Say Trump to Choose Amy Coney Barett for Supreme Court

[Stuart G]

Source: CNN

President Donald Trump intends to choose Amy Coney Barrett to be the new Supreme Court justice, according to multiple senior Republican sources with knowledge of the process.

In conversations with some senior Republican allies on the Hill, the White House is indicating that Barrett is the intended nominee, multiple sources said.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/25/politics/donald-trump-amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court/index.html

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She is 48 Years Old.

[maxsolomon]

1. 3 regressive SCOTUS Justices in 4 years.

They sure have punched us in the face.

[Polybius]

35. If he's re-elected, maybe 4 or 5

Scary thought.

[TomCADem]

40. I Think She Disqualified Herself With Her Statements in 2016 Re Vacancy

She cautioned against appointments that dramatically shift from a conservative justice to a liberal justice and also against appointing a judge in an election year where there is no bipartisan consensus. Yet, in true right wing fashion, she is happy to collude with Trump for her own personal benefit. In other words, she is corrupt and hypocritical, which makes her a perfect Trump candidate in that she sets forth a rule, then happily ignores it for her own benefit.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court-2016-interview-confirming-justices-election-year/

In the 2016 interview, Barrett noted the differences between the confirmation of Anthony Kennedy in 1988 — the last nominee to be confirmed by a Senate controlled by the opposing party during an election year — and the dynamics surrounding Scalia's replacement.

"Justice Kennedy, you know, the arguments will be that that situation was distinguishable," Barrett said. "The vacancy did not arise in the presidential election year. It arose the year before, in June, when Justice Powell retired. And Justice Kennedy was nominated in November of the prior year. Moreover, he was nominated after Bork's nomination failed and [Judge Douglas] Ginsburg withdrew his nomination."

Barrett also pointed to the drastic shift in the court's ideological makeup that would result if a Democratic president replaced Scalia with a more liberal justice, noting that Kennedy replaced a justice of the same ideological bent.

"Moreover, Kennedy is a moderate Republican and he replaced a moderate Republican, Powell. We're talking about Justice Scalia, you know, the staunchest conservative on the court, and we're talking about him being replaced by someone who could dramatically flip the balance of power on the court," she said. "It's not a lateral move."

[BlueStater]

2. She's 48.

Not that it really matters.

Fuck Trump.

[Stuart G]

3. I have changed the Original Post to reflect that...Sorry for the mistake...

Well, At least I admit that I make them..You know, pencils have erasers, don't they?
And what about the delete key? Who decided that?

[Polybius]

33. Curious as to what age you originally put

Not sure why, but I am.

[AZ8theist]

28. REICH WING FUCKING LUNATIC.

[milestogo]

39. She has 3 years experience as a judge.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Democrats should boycott the hearings

or pass all their time to Senator Kamala Harris. This is not the most qualified candidate, it's the candidate that satisfies the Bible Humpers. This completes the total power grab by Mitch. Don't participate.

[Stuart G]

7. We will see what happens...& we will have a plan to defeat this, one way or another.

[VarryOn]

27. If a boycott is the plan...

they need to not announce it. Republicans would love to skip hearings altogether and go straight to the floor door a vote.

[DFW]

5. Every Democrat who did not vote for Hillary last time

Everyone who even paid lip service to some other candidate after the nomination was irrevocably going to Hillary,

You have played midwife to Rosemary’s baby. Happy now?

[StevieM]

9. Actually, yes they are.

They will blame this situation on Hillary for decades to come. And that is what they wanted most--to have a vehicle with which to lambast her for years to come. The valued that more than the future of our country.

Misogyny runs deep in our society.

To be fair, though, she would have won anyway had it not been for James Comey's repeated illegitimate actions.

[rurallib]

6. What a surprise! - Goodbye, abortion. Goodbye Obamacare

Goodbye Workers rights. Goodbye America.

[TeamPooka]

12. Hello Canada

[rurallib]

13. Have you forgotten they won't let us in?

Thanks to Crazy Uncle Donny, we can't even get out of our borders.

[kairos12]

8. Judge Handmaiden. Scarlet robe and "wings" hat for her.

[Karma13612]

15. I hope anyone that CAN, WILL

Go to DC and stand outside the hearings wearing Handmaid Tale outfits.
That would work for me.
And I don’t just mean women. I would love to see the guys dress in the stormtrooper outfits for a complete picture. Maybe have a mock stoning....no wait that’s a bit OTT.

May the lord open....

[bdamomma]

22. Crap if

we don't stop this we will be Gilead. Canada will be "Little America".

[jorgevlorgan]

10. Handmaids Tale here we come!

[exboyfil]

11. Kamala Harris should have the majority of the time

If not all the time. In her questioning she needs to paint what America looks like under a court with Barrett.

[Karma13612]

14. No surprise there

I will be curious if he can manage to wait until RBG has been laid to rest.

He is pig turd.

[bdamomma]

24. trump

is a vindictive/vengeful prick. He will be looking over his shoulder many times.

[Karma13612]

30. Eee yup n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

16. They're only rushing this because they know Trump's going to lose and they'll be weaker post 11/3

Any hint of moral legitimacy is gone already, and it will be ZERO by December

[totodeinhere]

20. I believe that if this drags on past election day the lame duck Senate would still confirm her.

Especially if they know that Biden will be president they will want one more conservative vote on the Court to thwart President Biden's agenda whenever possible.

[cstanleytech]

26. Which is why the Democrats should increase SCOTUS to 13 otherwise SCOTUS will be broken.

[totodeinhere]

29. And then the next time the Republicans are in power they will increase it to 17.

I'm not sure if we should go down that road.

[cstanleytech]

36. They already started that ball rolling by corrupting the courts and if we do nothing to address it

we will have problems.

[lastlib]

31. I still favor the National Court of Appeals proposal....

Create a National Court of Appeals beneath the Supreme Court, with 25 judges. (Pack it with good young progressives.) All appeals from district court and courts of appeal go here.

Strip the Supreme Court of appellate jurisdiction, leaving it with its constitutional original jurisdiction. Long/short, we get the judges, Clarence PubicHair get his nap time, BeerBoy can stay hung over--problems solved.

No constitutional problems. Congress can create any court it wants to, and controls SCOTUS' appellate jurisdiction.

[SunSeeker]

17. Amy Coney Barrett is to Ruth Bader Ginsburg what Clarence Thomas is to Thurgood Marshall.

[llashram]

19. this

Clarence Thomas was a slap in the face from h.w.bushI

[Polybius]

34. Thurgood Marshall should have waited for Bush to lose to retire

But I guess he though he would have been reelected, we all did at that point.

[BeyondGeography]

38. Conclusion: our side is not very good at this game

[Raven123]

18. I just wonder: Will Single payer gets a new life if Obamacare struck down?

[hamsterjill]

21. You mean, he's actually nominating her husband, right?

Since she has agreed to be submissive to her husband because of her religious convictions, it will be him calling the shots anyway. Why not just put him up there?

Good grief, we are going back to the 50’s and don’t even need a Delorean!

[SunSeeker]

23. Right? They should have her husband come to be questioned at the confirmation hearings.

[cstanleytech]

25. I hope the Democrats have the launch codes ready for their own nuclear option of increasing SCOTUS

to 13 and packing the spots with extremely young progressive judges and are willing to use it if the Republicans go through with ramming through a replacement for RBG.

[TheFarseer]

32. What? Joel Osteen turned it down?

Too bad James Jones isn’t available.

[lapfog_1]

37. Justice Crazy-Eyes

she is a True Believer and will impose her view of Catholic Doctrine on all of us if she is seated.

Not just abortion, but LGBTQ rights, equal rights for women, separation of church and state... all of it.