PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
That guy, Trump.
Or, maybe he’s inspired.
Seems he answered this question: how to leave an indelible trajectory for America?
Well, not just by winning the presidency, or reforming the economy....but by reforming the judiciary!
Tweets notwithstanding, Trump didn’t brag that this was his plan….maybe is most important secret plan.
1."By the numbers overall (including Phipps), Trump has nominated and had confirmed:
Supreme Court: 2
Courts of Appeals: 43
District/Specialty Courts: 85
Trump is running out of Court of Appeals vacancies to fill, in part a result of his focus on filling those critical slots:
Current and known future vacancies: 141
Courts of Appeals: 6
District/Specialty Courts*: 135
Pending nominees for current and known future vacancies: 58
Courts of Appeals: 2
District/Specialty Courts*: 56"
Liberal nightmare: Takeover of federal judiciary by "larval Scalias is devastatingly close to completion"
2.“…the advent of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh has reshaped the Supreme Court enough to stop such despondent talk. While the decisions announced at the end of the Court’s term in June, marking the first year with both new justices on the bench, don’t amount to a stampede toward the Right, they display a wholesome focus on what the Constitution and statutes actually say.
The Nine are “redirecting the judge’s interpretive task back to its roots, away from open-ended policy appeals and speculation about legislative intentions and toward the traditional tools of interpretation that judges have employed for centuries to elucidate the law’s original public meaning,” Gorsuch explained in a June opinion. “Today, it is even said that we judges are, to one degree or another, ‘all textualists now.’ ” And that’s already a quiet revolution.” The Court Moves Right
This would be the greatest gift any President could provide.
3.Consider the opposite view, in the words of Chief Justice Hughes:
“The Constitution is what the judges say it is.”
Correct? Or hubris?
Or, maybe he’s inspired.
Seems he answered this question: how to leave an indelible trajectory for America?
Well, not just by winning the presidency, or reforming the economy....but by reforming the judiciary!
Tweets notwithstanding, Trump didn’t brag that this was his plan….maybe is most important secret plan.
1."By the numbers overall (including Phipps), Trump has nominated and had confirmed:
Supreme Court: 2
Courts of Appeals: 43
District/Specialty Courts: 85
Trump is running out of Court of Appeals vacancies to fill, in part a result of his focus on filling those critical slots:
Current and known future vacancies: 141
Courts of Appeals: 6
District/Specialty Courts*: 135
Pending nominees for current and known future vacancies: 58
Courts of Appeals: 2
District/Specialty Courts*: 56"
Liberal nightmare: Takeover of federal judiciary by "larval Scalias is devastatingly close to completion"
2.“…the advent of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh has reshaped the Supreme Court enough to stop such despondent talk. While the decisions announced at the end of the Court’s term in June, marking the first year with both new justices on the bench, don’t amount to a stampede toward the Right, they display a wholesome focus on what the Constitution and statutes actually say.
The Nine are “redirecting the judge’s interpretive task back to its roots, away from open-ended policy appeals and speculation about legislative intentions and toward the traditional tools of interpretation that judges have employed for centuries to elucidate the law’s original public meaning,” Gorsuch explained in a June opinion. “Today, it is even said that we judges are, to one degree or another, ‘all textualists now.’ ” And that’s already a quiet revolution.” The Court Moves Right
This would be the greatest gift any President could provide.
3.Consider the opposite view, in the words of Chief Justice Hughes:
“The Constitution is what the judges say it is.”
Correct? Or hubris?