SCOTUS: Kennedy Announces Retirement

[angelatc]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...eat/952716001/

Kennedy announced his retirement in a letter to President Trump addressed, "My dear Mr. President." Within minutes, Trump told reporters he would move quickly to nominate someone from a list of 25 potential replacements -- someone "as outstanding" as Kennedy.

"It will be somebody from that list," Trump said.

[Swordsmyth]

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Jun 27 2018 13:20:18 (EST)

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Jun 27 2018 13:11:58 (EST)

ClipboardImage.png ⬇ LETTER FROM JUSTICE KENNEDY TO POTUS
https://www.documentcloud.org/docume...source=Twitter📁

>>1926855
His choice?
Remember, Kennedy was the swing vote.
No more.
Locked & Loaded.
RBG next.
Q

[angelatc]

bump

[specsaregood]

LOL at the pussyhats gushing over this news. the world is gonna end! oh noes.

[thoughtomator]

This plus disempowerment of the public unions makes for the worst week for the Left in a long time.

[aGameOfThrones]

[phill4paul]

Just another clown in gown gone and another to replace for a lifetime.

Until, I see...

"By a 9-0 decision we find that the case in question is out of the purview of the Federal Government. We, hereby, rule that the Federal governments involvement is hereby declared null and void, and the case is remanded to the states, and to the people, respectively. This decision has no dissent."

I'll just consider them a bunch of windbags who are liked or disliked, by whichever side of the political spectrum, depending on which way the wind blows.

[Danke]

LOL at the pussyhats gushing over this news. the world is gonna end! oh noes.

"gushing"?

I guess, that is usually just the opposite.

[Danke]

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...ces-Retirement

[jkr]

GIVE
ME
ANDREW
NAPOLITANO
OR GIVE ME
a break

[Swordsmyth]

GIVE
ME
ANDREW
NAPOLITANO
OR GIVE ME
a break

Judge Swamp is a bad choice.

[William Tell]

From the names on the old list of 25 I like Don Willett and Mike Lee.

Amy Coney Barrett of Indiana, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Keith Blackwell of Georgia, Supreme Court of Georgia

Charles Canady of Florida, Supreme Court of Florida

Steven Colloton of Iowa, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Allison Eid of Colorado, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Britt Grant of Georgia, Supreme Court of Georgia

Raymond Gruender of Missouri, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Thomas Hardiman of Pennsylvania, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Brett Kavanaugh of Maryland, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Raymond Kethledge of Michigan, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Joan Larsen of Michigan, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Mike Lee of Utah, United States Senator

Thomas Lee of Utah, Supreme Court of Utah

Edward Mansfield of Iowa, Supreme Court of Iowa

Federico Moreno of Florida, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Kevin Newsom of Alabama, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

William Pryor of Alabama, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Margaret Ryan of Virginia, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces

David Stras of Minnesota, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Diane Sykes of Wisconsin, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Amul Thapar of Kentucky, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Timothy Tymkovich of Colorado, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Robert Young of Michigan, Supreme Court of Michigan (Ret.)

Don Willett of Texas, Supreme Court of Texas

Patrick Wyrick of Oklahoma, Supreme Court of Oklahoma

[AuH20]

[AuH20]

If he picks someone radical, we may get our gun rights restored.

[William Tell]

Judge Swamp is a bad choice.

Besides his odd logic on the cake ruling, what has he actually said or done that has done anything to change the fact that overall throughout his career he has been a more consistent defender of the Constitution as written than anyone on the court in recent memory? I'm interested in actual defense or opposition to the Constitution, not an administration.

[Danke]

Judge Swamp is a bad choice.

[Swordsmyth]

Besides his odd logic on the cake ruling, what has he actually said or done that has done anything to change the fact that overall throughout his career he has been a more consistent defender of the Constitution as written than anyone on the court in recent memory? I'm interested in actual defense or opposition to the Constitution, not an administration.

He has taken the anti-Constitution/anti-Law side on almost every aspect of Russiagate, including reversing his stance from what he said when he thought Hitlery was going to win , he had said she would be master and commander of the DOJ and would have the right to pardon herself.

See this thread:

Judge Swamp strikes again

[Swordsmyth]

There Judge Swamp goes again:

Judge Swamp strikes again

[AuH20]

I'm laughing too hard!!! Constitution dismantled?!?!?! It's practically unrecognizable from it's original intent.

[AuH20]

Karma for killing Scalia. 40 years of darkness.

[enhanced_deficit]

This could be potentially bad news for gay wedding cakes.

The Beautiful Closing Paragraph of Justice Kennedy’s Gay Marriage Ruling

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slate...paragraph.html

Other important question is will Trump pick a pro gun control judge or pro NRA, pro Police State or pro Constitutional liberties?

[William Tell]

He has taken the anti-Constitution/anti-Law side on almost every aspect of Russiagate, including reversing his stance from what he said when he thought Hitlery was going to win , he had said she would be master and commander of the DOJ and would have the right to pardon herself.

See this thread:

Judge Swamp strikes again

OK, so I read his opinion piece you linked where he lays out his view of checks and balances and how it relates to a president when under investigation. So? I'm not even saying I agree with it all but what part do you take issue with?

Maybe he did take an anti- Constitution position, can you point out specifically how? Also where has he flip flopped on pardons? Making sweeping seemingly hyperbolic statements about how he's a Deep State Hitlery supporter doesn't tell me anything.

[phill4paul]

Mike Lee open to being nominated to Supreme Court

Utah Sen. Mike Lee (R) said in an interview Wednesday that he "would not say no" if he was asked by President Trump to serve on the Supreme Court as Justice Anthony Kennedy's replacement.

"I started watching Supreme Court arguments for fun when I was 10 years old. So if somebody asked me if I would consider that, I would not say no," he told reporters on what he would say if Trump asked him to serve.

"But the president’s got a decision to make and I trust his ability to make it and make it well," he added.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3...erve-on-scotus

[AuH20]

Kennedy was a major stumbling block on State AWB challenges being heard. Now with him gone, the possibilities are intriguing.

[Swordsmyth]

OK, so I read his opinion piece you linked where he lays out his view of checks and balances and how it relates to a president when under investigation. So? I'm not even saying I agree with it all but what part do you take issue with?

Maybe he did take an anti- Constitution position, can you point out specifically how? Also where has he flip flopped on pardons? Making sweeping seemingly hyperbolic statements about how he's a Deep State Hitlery supporter doesn't tell me anything.

Can Congress interfere in an ongoing federal criminal investigation? Can it get its eyes on law enforcement's active files? In a word: No.

Congress can and must be able to in order to exercise oversight on the DOJ, there is nothing in the Constitution to limit it from doing so, but Judge Swamp doesn't want the full truth brought to light.

Fox New’s Judge Andrew Napolitano warned Monday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions's firing on Friday of former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe could be seen as “obstruction of justice.”
Napolitano said on Fox News' "America's Newsroom" Monday that he viewed McCabe’s firing as “vindictive” and “reckless.”
“Andrew McCabe is more likely than not to be a witness against the Attorney General’s boss, the president of the United States,” Napolitano said. “I think that firing him in that environment could very well be determined to diminish his effectiveness as a witness. What’s that called, obstruction of justice.”



“I don’t know if Bob Mueller wants to go there, but that’s the argument,” he added.

More at: http://thehill.com/homenews/media/37...ion-of-justice

This is absolute garbage, McCabe richly deserved to be fired and neither Sessions nor Trump could be obstructing justice by doing it.

http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/12/1...-against-trump

Some Republican lawmakers have seized on a trove of damning text messages as evidence that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation is biased against President Trump.

Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano doesn't think so.

The text messages were exchanged between two FBI officials who worked on Mueller’s Russia probe, and they reveal the agents expressing a steady stream of anti-Trump, pro-Hillary Clinton sentiments.

"The issue is not: do FBI agents have political opinions and can they express them? The answer to that is yes and yes," Napolitano said on "Outnumbered Overtime." "The issue is: do those political opinions in any way influence the outcome of their investigation?"

He pointed out that the FBI has procedures in place to prevent that from happening.

"FBI agents operate in pairs, whatever the two discover has to be reviewed by five others, whatever the five have reviewed and decided is credible has to be reviewed by Justice Department lawyers," Napolitano explained.

He noted that the only final decisions that have been made in Mueller's investigation are to indict former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his aide Rick Gates and to accept two guilty pleas from former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos.

Napolitano said Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein painted a "very credible" picture in his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee when he said it's too early to determine if any individual's political opinion affected the outcome of the investigation, because the outcome hasn't been reached yet.

In the meantime, Napolitano said he's not worried about the text messages.

"FBI agents are not choirboys or choirgirls. They are strong-willed people with strong opinions like the rest of us," he said. "None of this surprises me."

More absolute garbage, the texts were clear proof of overwhelming bias.

http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/12/0...ustice-charges

Judge Nap: Feinstein Is 'Correct' on Potential Obstruction of Justice Case Against Trump

On "Fox & Friends" this morning, Alan Dershowitz disputed claims from some Democrats that Special Counsel Robert Mueller could build an obstruction of justice case against President Donald Trump.

Dershowitz said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) was incorrect when she argued that Trump obstructed the FBI investigation into possible collusion between his presidential campaign and Russia by asking former FBI Director James Comey to end the investigation into Michael Flynn and also by later firing Comey.

Dershowitz said a president cannot be charged with obstruction for merely exercising his constitutional authority.

On "America's Newsroom," Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano came down on the side of Feinstein.

"I respect Professor Dershowitz greatly. I do not know Sen. Feinstein, but she, in my view, is correct here," he told Bill Hemmer.

He said that if Trump asked Comey to end the investigation into Flynn for a non-corrupt purpose - such as if he felt sympathy for his former national security adviser or he wanted the bureau to use its resources on more important matters - it's not obstruction.

However, if Trump did it for a corrupt purpose - such as trying to protect himself or his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, from what Flynn might say - then it is obstruction and there is no presidential immunity, Napolitano said.

"Obstruction of justice is a crime no matter who commits it, if done for a corrupt purpose. It's also an impeachable offense," he said, adding that the charge is "intentionally not easy to prove" for a prosecutor.

Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Sunday on "Meet the Press" that she believes an obstruction of justice case is forming.

"The Judiciary Committee has an investigation going as well and it involves obstruction of justice and I think what we're beginning to see is the putting together of a case of obstruction of justice,” she said.

"I see it in the hyper-frenetic attitude of the White House, the comments every day, the continual tweets. And I see it most importantly in what happened with the firing of Director Comey, and it is my belief that that is directly because he did not agree to ‘lift the cloud’ of the Russia investigation. That’s obstruction of justice."

More garbage, when he thought Hitlery was going to win he said POTUS is the head of the DOJ and can tell them to do whatever POTUS wants, furthermore trumps words were clearly not a command but a wish, somehow he doesn't give Trump anywhere near the leeway he wanted to give to the biased FBI agents.

Napolitano: Mueller did not wrongly obtain Trump team emails

https://www.yahoo.com/news/napolitan...143230179.html

There was no legal basis for the subpoena.

Fox News’ Judge Napolitano Says Trump Jr-Russia Meeting Merits Criminal Investigation (Video)

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/fox-news-ju...202307669.html

http://theweek.com/speedreads/704572...been-dishonest

Fox News' Judge Napolitano argues Comey's testimony illustrates a 'credible and compelling argument' that Trump has been dishonest

Nothing that was ever alleged about the meeting was criminal, it is not illegal to get dirt on your opponent from foreigners.

[AuH20]

I would augment Trump's security detail by 10 fold. He's a more tempting target right now.

[acptulsa]

OK, so I read his opinion piece you linked where he lays out his view of checks and balances and how it relates to a president when under investigation. So? I'm not even saying I agree with it all but what part do you take issue with?

Maybe he did take an anti- Constitution position, can you point out specifically how? Also where has he flip flopped on pardons? Making sweeping seemingly hyperbolic statements about how he's a Deep State Hitlery supporter doesn't tell me anything.

Swordsmythe isn't impressed with principled conservatives. If you ain't a partisan GOP hack he has no use for you.

"Constitutional" and "lawful" may mean specific things to the rest of us. But when Swordsmythe uses them, they're just dog-whistle code for "Republican Team Player".

[AuH20]

[TER]

What a wonderful day!

WWG1WGA!

[spudea]

A special thanks to Joe Biden for the Biden rule in 1992.