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Trump to nominate Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court: sources

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President Trump plans to announce that Amy Coney Barrett will be his nominee to the Supreme Court to fill the seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, multiple sources told Fox News on Friday.

The president is expected to make the announcement during a White House event on Saturday. Barrett currently serves as a judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Picture a female jurist who has consistently defied social expectations imposed on women and whose legal thinking is closely bound up with her faith. No, I’m not talking about Amy Coney Barrett, reported to top President Trump’s list of candidates to fill the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat. I’m talking about Ginsburg herself.

Ginsburg believed fervently that conventional expectations shouldn’t hinder women as they seek their full, fair share of public life. Nor was she shy about how her Jewish faith shaped her judicial mind. In an essay for the American Jewish Committee published in 1993, she wrote: “Laws as protectors of the oppressed, the poor, the loner, is evident in the work of my Jewish predecessors. . . . The biblical command ‘Justice, justice shalt thou pursue’ is a strand that ties them together.”

By those criteria, Barrett would make a most worthy successor to RBG. In nominating the 48-year-old Louisianan, the president would present the nation with an inspiring vision of what it means to be an American woman in 2020 — one that could by turns surprise and captivate the suburban women Trump is keen to court while also delivering for the GOP base.

“Amy represents an opportunity to showcase a generationally brilliant, special intellect — who also is a mom,” says O. Carter Snead, Barrett’s longtime faculty colleague at the Notre Dame law school, where Barrett also received her law degree.

Her rare combination of hyper-intelligence and humility is a matter of bipartisan consensus. “The smartest person in the room and also the most humble” was how Snead and two other sources intimately familiar with Barrett described her, echoing each other almost verbatim.

Harvard Law School prof Noah Feldman — a liberal who testified before Congress in favor of impeaching the president — hailed her as “a truly brilliant lawyer” in a 2018 column. Feldman should know. He and Barrett were members of the same class of Supreme Court clerks in 1998.

“She was one of the two best lawyers” of the 40 clerks “and arguably the single best.” Feldman concluded: “She was legally prepared enough to go on the court 20 years ago.”

When Trump nominated Barrett to the Seventh Circuit, every single one of those 40 fellow clerks endorsed her as a “first-rate” thinker, including such vehemently anti-Trump figures as Neal Katyal, solicitor general under Team Obama. The entire Notre Dame law faculty likewise endorsed her, “and that includes people who identify as liberal,” as Snead was quick to note.

She is recognized as an expert on how judges are supposed to interpret statutes — a crucial role, as demonstrated by Justice Neil Gorsuch’s bizarre recent reading of “gender identity” into a civil rights statute enacted in the 1960s. She has also thought deeply about the relationship among the branches of government, a gnarly and seriously important area of law.
 



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I knew it would be Barrett
 
She the one who fully intends to do everything she can to overturn Roe?

The backlash will be immense, but paid for with the blood of poor women who simply cannot afford to travel to another state for it to be done properly. Evil done in the name of faux good. Religion's work, yet again.

But hey, it'll be the poors paying for your self-righteous buzz, so who gives a damn amirite?
 
Lulz.

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It gonna be lit af.
 
She the one who fully intends to do everything she can to overturn Roe?

The backlash will be immense, but paid for with the blood of poor women who simply cannot afford to travel to another state for it to be done properly. Evil done in the name of faux good. Religion's work, yet again.

But hey, it'll be the poors paying for your self-righteous buzz, so who gives a damn amirite?
Amazing that your mother didn't act on Roe vs Wade as you are here.
 
If Democrats aren’t careful, this could be another Brett Kavanaugh all over again...Instead of making this about the candidate herself, Democrats need to hammer home the message that regardless of who was going to be named to that seat, they would have the full intention of striking down the ACA, and Roe v Wade and would be hostile to just about every progressive cause and issue. At this point, all Democrats can do is messaging in hopes of driving people to get out and vote
 
Someone asked about are picks made on merit? I said trump will pick on her looks and lo and behold.
 
When have democrats ever NOT overplay their weak hand.

Answer: Never.

They'll attack her over stupid shit and make outrageously silly accusations that will do nothing but drum up support for her. If you want to fire up the right wing base, attack Amy Coney Barrett.



If Democrats aren’t careful, this could be another Brett Kavanaugh all over again...Instead of making this about the candidate herself, Democrats need to hammer home the message that regardless of who was going to be named to that seat, they would have the full intention of striking down the ACA, and Roe v Wade and would be hostile to just about every progressive cause and issue. At this point, all Democrats can do is messaging in hopes of driving people to get out and vote
 
Someone asked about are picks made on merit? I said trump will pick on her looks and lo and behold.

Your partisan hackery aside, explain how she lacks merit.
 



Absolutely love it, let's see the radical left attack a women nominee for the Supreme Court to replace a woman on the SC


She’s gonna be attacked for trying to kill the healthcare during a pandemic. And Josh Hawley is gonna make her promise to end Roe.

The court was always gonna go this way if RBG died on Trump’s watch. The timing is exquisite.
 
Simply dumb. Barbara Lagoa is hotter:

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Someone asked about are picks made on merit? I said trump will pick on her looks and lo and behold.
 
Your partisan hackery aside, explain how she lacks merit.

She has very little experience, has made compromsing political statements, and is Christian Sharia Law type who is out of touch with our constitution.

But we’re gonna kill her on trying to end the ACA. it’s all we’re gonna talk about. We are gonna bury her in that. And then those swing state GOPers in tight races will need to vote up or down on the SC judge Trump has promised will kill healthcare, abortion, and give him the election.
 
She has very little experience, has made compromsing political statements, and is Christian Sharia Law type who is out of touch with our constitution.

But we’re gonna kill her on trying to end the ACA. it’s all we’re gonna talk about. We are gonna bury her in that. And then those swing state GOPers in tight races will need to vote up or down on the SC judge Trump has promised will kill healthcare, abortion, and give him the election.

Religious tests are unconstitutional.

But we’re gonna kill her on trying to end the ACA. it’s all we’re gonna talk about. We are gonna bury her in that.

Interesting language.
 
Religious tests are unconstitutional.



Interesting language.

I didn’t say the senate would apply these standards. You asked what disqualified her, that’s what *I* said. That’s why I then stated what the Dems are gonna go after her on is x.

The language is designed to let you know how stupid this pick was at this time. She will get the seat. You will rejoice. So take heart! ;)
 
When have democrats ever NOT overplay their weak hand.

Answer: Never.

They'll attack her over stupid shit and make outrageously silly accusations that will do nothing but drum up support for her. If you want to fire up the right wing base, attack Amy Coney Barrett.

Precisely why I said they should stick to reminding the American people about what’s at stake with a 6-3 conservative majority on the court and not making it about ACB. You mentioned drumming up support — nothing is a greater motivator to the left then threatening healthcare and reproductive rights
 
A nominee who intends to take health care away from tens of millions of Americans and bring back pre-existing conditions during a pandemic should be very popular.
 
I see the problem here. You do realize that the supreme court can't eliminate Obamacare "during a pandemic" or at all. They would need something before the court to rule on. They don't rule by fiat.

The expectation that they do rule by fiat explains the left's approach to the judiciary. You think they should legislate from the bench. This is one of the reasons you ended up with Trump. Elections have consequences.



A nominee who intends to take health care away from tens of millions of Americans and bring back pre-existing conditions during a pandemic should be very popular.
 
I see the problem here. You do realize that the supreme court can't eliminate Obamacare "during a pandemic" or at all. They would need something before the court to rule on. They don't rule by fiat.

Oral arguments in California v. Texas are on November 10, chief.

Coverage for tens of millions hangs in the balance.
 
So far, Trump's supreme court nominees have voted to include gays in the Equal Rights Act, so gays are now a protected class.

So you really can't tell how Amy Barrett will vote. We all might be surprised.
 
This woman cannot make a decision from the bench without consulting her husband and without him consulting his advisor...they literally believe that God's law takes priority over earthly law and that it is their duty to implement that law against the rest of the population...no, she does not belong on any court bench...anyone that wonders why needs to read some of her decisions and dissents.
 
You right winger might be full of cheer now, but you will live to regret what Trump and Republican Politicians and Republican Constituency has done... and you have no one to blame but yourself.

You think your are poor, working poor and struggling, you have not had the level of it that will come by decisions of a Right Wing Leaning Supreme Court. White Nationalism is on its Death Bed... and you are raving about what amount to support for Industrial Plutocracy, You think your rural lands have seen toxicity, you have seen nothing yet, and you think the concept of family farms took a hit with Trump Trade Debacles, you have seen nothing, as The Industrial Mega Corporations take over the rest of the farms. You think your kids can't afford skill training and learning professional techniques, you will find that what you will get is a system that treats your offspring's like apprentices, yes, the type that were structured under Andrew Johnson... until the U.S. Federal Government made them cease. If you think your wages are stagnant now, you have a Anti Union Right Wing Court that will attack any efforts to promote Union Organization of Labor, and you will see employee rights diminish even more.

You are hung up on trying to force women to live without choice, but you are the same people who fight against helping single mothers or single fathers with kids.

Gloat but you will find your gloating turning to moans of desperation... and it will overcome you like a tsunami!!!! and you did it to yourself
 



Absolutely love it, let's see the radical left attack a women nominee for the Supreme Court to replace a woman on the SC


Break out the party hats. 🥳
 
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