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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on September 09, 2020, 08:40:45 pm
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Trump unveils Supreme Court list, includes Cruz and Cotton
By Morgan Chalfant and John Kruzel - 09/09/20 04:29 PM EDT
Trump’s list included the following potential nominees to join the bench alongside his two other appointees, Justices Neal Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh:
Bridget Bade, a Trump appointee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Daniel Cameron, Republican attorney general of Kentucky
Paul Clement, former solicitor general under President George W. Bush
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
Stuart Kyle Duncan, a Trump appointee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Steven Engel, currently the assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel
Noel Francisco, who recently stepped down as the U.S. solicitor general
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)
James Ho, a Trump appointee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Gregory Katsas, who served as deputy White House counsel in the Trump administration before being tapped for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Barbara Lagoa, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Christopher Landau, the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and former clerk for Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas
Carlos Muñiz, a justice of the Supreme Court of Florida
Martha Pacold, a Trump appointee to the U.S. District for the Northern District of Illinois
Peter Phipps, a Trump appointee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Sarah Pitlyk, a Trump appointee to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
Alison Jones Rushing, U.S. Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Kate Todd, former chief counsel for the litigation arm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence VanDyke, a Trump appointee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
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At this exact point in history can we afford to lose Cruz, Cotton, or Hawley out of the senate?
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At this exact point in history can we afford to lose Cruz, Cotton, or Hawley out of the senate?
:pondering:
This could be a new kobayashi maru test.
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POTUS does not hold a grudge. I DO! Cruz might do well, as S.C....not as president of USA. MIGHT.
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Just a LIST.....does not mean, they will be chosen. Every body..breathe.
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Good speech on this issue .... too bad the press is a pack of jackals.
President Trump Delivers Remarks on Judicial Appointments
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LJhaat0iTg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LJhaat0iTg)
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Hmmmmm.... where's Amy Coney Barrett ?
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Trump unveils Supreme Court list, includes Cruz and Cotton
By Morgan Chalfant and John Kruzel - 09/09/20 04:29 PM EDT
@mystery-ak
I know next to nothing or nothing about the rest of them,but Cruz is scary-smart,and might have trouble winning his seat this election.
Don't know how he would lean politically if on the SC,though.
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POTUS does not hold a grudge. I DO! Cruz might do well, as S.C....not as president of USA. MIGHT.
Cruz' Constitutional knowledge impressed me long before he ran for POTUS. I think he would do very well in the SC, but would even more prefer him to be some place he could stop crap before it became law and people had to go through years of crap to get it overturned.
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At this exact point in history can we afford to lose Cruz, Cotton, or Hawley out of the senate?
Think maybe Mr Trump is trolling the Dems by releasing this list?
Making them go berserk over the suggested nominees?
And getting them to do his vetting for him?
Getting them to spend resources on investigating these possible nominees?
Only to nominate someone else not on the list?
Also, Ted Cruz won by a much smaller margin in 2018 than in 2012
largely because the Dems used their "shiny new object" strategy
in nominating Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke in 2018.
After all, the "shiny new object" strategy
did a great job of energizing the Dems' base
in 1992 and 2008.