Meet Amy Coney Barrett—She’s At the Top of Trump’s Short List For SCOTUS
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There’s now an opening on the US Supreme Court with the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, following her battle with cancer, and with that a few frightening possibilities to be President Trump’s nominee, if he’s indeed the one to make that nomination, and sadly I don’t see why he wouldn’t be.
Here are some names now being floated, including Allison Eid, a judge for the US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, and Britt Grant, a judge for the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals who, at 42, is so far the youngest name mentioned for Ginsburg’s seat.
Then, according to CNN, there’s Senator Tom Cotton of all people and Barbara Lagoa, an 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals judge who would be the second Supreme Court justice of Latino descent. But there’s one name, in particular, being bandied about and that’s Amy Coney Barrett, a judge on the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals who’s also said to be the judge Trump’s long been “saving” for Ginsburg’s spot.
Axios had a scoop on Barrett, a former clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia, in May 2019, and it laid out the appeal then of the 48-year-old judge for Trump, including her relative youth and past writings that indicate she’d be all in for overturning Roe v. Wade.
The outlet notes Trump may have chosen to keep Barrett on the back burner all this time because he was afraid senators like Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska would balk at her nomination due to her opposition against abortion rights.
Sources also say Trump may have been waiting to get more GOP seats in the Senate during the midterms, upping the odds that a more conservative judge like Barrett would get confirmed.
As for when a nominee may be coming down the pike, sources tell us that Trump is expected to have one ready in the “coming days.” May the Almighty Unicorn help us all.
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There is no doubt he will try but whether it can be done in under 50 days is doubtful. If he is defeated in November the Democrats may take him to court over he can do it or not.
He can do it. The power to appoint judges rests solely with him and there are no exceptions.
She still has to get through the judicial committee and if she passes through there, the whole senate. Murkowski and Collins have both said what is fair is fair since Obama couldn’t get his nominee through, in 10 months before an election why should Trump get his in 45 days and Murkowski in particular has said she would vote no. Plus if the did want to push it through in the lame dusck session if Biden wins, Kelly in Arizona could already be seated in place of McSally. Since she was appointed to fill old walnut’s seat on his death Kelly could in theory be seated. Whether or not the governor, who is a gooper, seats him is a whole other story. If he did that would mean a no vote from Alaska and a definite no from Arizona, if Kelly is seated. Damn I can tell I haven’t been out of the house in a while with this post. I’ve been reading up on whether the twatwaffle can seat someone on SCOTUS. Yertle the turtle has said he will have a vote in the senate if Trump does nominate someone proving once again he is the world’s biggest hypocrite.
Of course he’s the world’s biggest hypocrite, but that’s politics, and there’s no doubt in my mind that if the shoe were on the other foot, Democrats would do the same. As to the AZ governor seating Kelly before his time, there’s no way in hell he would do that. Bottom line: the country is fucked because the Republicans are going to try and push through Trumper’s nominee, might even be Dennis Rodham.