Trump's 2020 Scotus Battle

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  1. Yvonne Smith

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    It is already fueling the flames for more rioting, it sounds like. I have been seeing liberals on Twitter and Facebook threatening more riots if President Trump appoints another justice,
    One person said that if Trump even tries to replace her, they would burn everything down.

    It is pretty likely that she will be replaced, and I think that the president probably has known this could happen at any time, as sick as Mrs. Ginsburg has been; so he probably has already picked out who he will nominate as the new judge.
    One or two of the main possibilities is a woman, so that would make it harder for them to come up with women who suddenly remember that they were raped or abused by the nominee back 20+ years ago, and are just now “coming forward” with the information.

    https://trendingpolitics.com/leftists-vow-more-violence-rioting-if-trump-appoints-replacement-for-ginsburg/
     
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    Now the rioters want to govern. The USA has a system if they listen to rioters then they do not.
     
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    The President, Donald Trump has alerted the Senate and is going to announce his choice for the empty seat this week.
    It is notable that whomever he chooses will undoubtedly sway a few votes one way or the other but that’s not the real problem with having an 8 member Supreme Court.

    We WILL have problems this election cycle especially if the vote is contested which the Supreme Court will have to “mediate” and make some determinations so having only 8 members could spell a tie in those determinations.
    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sen...presidential-election-rapid/story?id=73121715
     
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    Could spell real trouble with the wishy-washy John Roberts
     
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    Within minutes after RBG passed the Dems all ganged up and said that the President should wait until after the elections so why the sudden change?
    They all Want the vote to go into overtime so the November 20 deadline can’t be met which would throw Pelosi into the catbird seat.
    If for some miracle the deadline IS met and D. Trump is the victor then the left is still sitting pretty for a contested vote and that would throw the whole thing on the shoulders of the Supreme Court.
    Either way, by hook or crook, without that 9th position filled, the Dems have the high seat in check with very few moves left to produce a checkmate.
     
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    I thought I'd start this thread rather than commingle it with the "RBG Had Passed" thread, since there's likely gonna be a lot of activity surrounding this issue. If the mods want it all under the RGB thread, they can merge this.

    Trump's rumored short list as of 9/20/20 (links are to their Wiki pages):

    7th Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett (48 years old)
    Central District of Illinois
    Northern District of Illinois
    Southern District of Illinois
    Northern District of Indiana
    Southern District of Indiana
    Eastern District of Wisconsin
    Western District of Wisconsin

    11th Circuit Court Judge Barbara Lagoa (52 years old)
    Middle District of Alabama
    Northern District of Alabama
    Southern District of Alabama
    Middle District of Florida
    Northern District of Florida
    Southern District of Florida
    Middle District of Georgia
    Northern District of Georgia
    Southern District of Georgia

    4th Circuit Court Judge Allison Rushing (37 years old)
    District of Maryland
    Eastern District of North Carolina
    Middle District of North Carolina
    Western District of North Carolina
    District of South Carolina
    Eastern District of Virginia
    Western District of Virginia
    Northern District of West Virginia
    Southern District of West Virginia
     
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    Trump is smarter than that. I have yet to see any such concern that he has been cornered by these people come to fruition, even though I have voiced such concerns myself (I've since morphed into the "Wait and See" guy.)

    The issue the court is gonna decide is when to call the election "Done," since outstanding Mail In Ballots technically means there are uncounted votes. No matter what, the unAmerican Democrat Party will try to steal this. If nothing else, let's fill that seat with someone who is going to respect our representative legislative process and not create law from the bench; otherwise, there's not much sense in having elections in the first place.
     
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    There is a John Roberts associated with the Epstein flight logs. I do not know if it is this same John Roberts, but if it is the same person, he might not continue to be a Supreme Court Justice for a lot longer, because with the Epstein and Maxwell testimonies, many of those involved with the criminal activities from Epstein’s island flights, are going to be prosecuted for whatever involvement they had.

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    Barrett was on the very short list last time. She'd make the left go ballistic.
     
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    Hard to separate the wheat from the chaff on this one.

    Some sites are throwing the BS flag because Epstein loaned his plane out for lots of charitable stuff...not all flights went to his island of children. But there is an "insider whistle blower" who claims that "one of the justices" has been blackmailed by a nation state since before his appointment to the court. The name "John Roberts" on the flight long is adding fuel to the rumor of some unnamed justice being outed by the unnamed accuser.
     
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    The Supreme Court justices are only supposed to decide on law as it applies to the Constitution and not to make law but that seems to be what Congress has been asking the high court to do on many occasions.
    Obama pretty much set that stage with his “pen and phone” executive privilege activities which caused the court to have to rule on the constitutionality of those decisions thereby forcing the court to become a law making body.
    Now, it seems, each and every executive decision D. Trump makes gets thrown into the court system which again, either negates the decision or produces law.
    Until Congress starts to take some responsibility it’s like @Ken Anderson’s state whereby the Governor reigns as queen with only their court system to act as a buffer. In essence, Maine doesn’t need a congress.
    I would hope that after this election cycle, the individual branches of our government will start doing what they are Constitutionally designed to do and the states will follow suit.

    Now, so far as D. Trump being backed into a corner, I’ve not seen him find himself in one either but this time I’m a little worried.
     
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    If a military person with Any type of security clearance are caught in a compromising position, they lose their clearance and are up for review.
    The same should apply to all of our [I hate to say it] “leaders” no matter what position of importance they hold,
     
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