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struggle4progress

(126,683 posts) Thu Jul 13, 2017, 11:13 PM Jul 2017

Lindsey Graham: Trump could appoint four Supreme Court justices [View all]

Alex Pappas
Published July 13, 2017 Fox News

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Thursday he believes it’s possible President Trump could name as many as four justices to the Supreme Court during his presidency.

“We could have four Supreme Court picks on Trump’s watch,” Graham said Thursday in Washington at a private event sponsored by a political action committee for young conservatives. “Do you understand how big that is for y’all?” ...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/07/13/lindsey-graham-trump-could-appoint-four-supreme-court-justices-during-presidency.html

What could be better than a guy -- who couldn't win a majority of the vote, even with foreign help -- dominating the courts with his appointments? Lindsey is lining up bodies behind the barricades in the fight for DC

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Lindsey Graham: Trump could appoint four Supreme Court justices [View all] struggle4progress Jul 2017 OP

And he could push the red button, too. McCamy Taylor Jul 2017 #1

that's just swell... NRaleighLiberal Jul 2017 #2

People should never think LG is a halfway decent anything. Solly Mack Jul 2017 #3

+1 dalton99a Jul 2017 #6

Yep. Same with him, too. Solly Mack Jul 2017 #8

"People should never think LG is a halfway decent anything." LenaBaby61 Jul 2017 #16

Me neither. Never saw any reason to think better of him. Solly Mack Jul 2017 #17

The next Democratic president and the next Democratic Senate should expand the Supreme Court dalton99a Jul 2017 #4

FDR tried that in 1937. It didn't end well. The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2017 #10

And this is why Proud liberal 80 Jul 2017 #5

Yep.... AJT Jul 2017 #9

That is why it is so important to take back Congress and block the fuck out of all of them Tiggeroshii Jul 2017 #7

I saw this thread and my stomach literally turned. so sick. riversedge Jul 2017 #11

Or he could only have Gorsuch, or he "could" get two, or he "could" get three, or four, or five... Freethinker65 Jul 2017 #12

Sorry John Mc's BBF Ccarmona Jul 2017 #13

It's the last year of dRumpf's term, so we should hold off confirming his choices.... lastlib Jul 2017 #14

Also, the Trump 2020 campaign has already started Ezior Jul 2017 #18

Dream: Drumpf takes revenge on his own & names Libs UTUSN Jul 2017 #15

I don't feel any better if Pence names them.... Funtatlaguy Jul 2017 #19

Is Lindsay Graham revealing that the RNC has a plan to keep the Senate republican no_hypocrisy Jul 2017 #20