“I have no doubt that they think it’s a good idea. Trump likes the idea of being the first Republican since Ronald Reagan appointed Sandra Day O’Connor to put a woman on the Supreme Court. McConnell’s drive to fill the federal courts has been relentless, and whatever happens on Nov. 3, there will be a lame duck session of Congress after Election Day with the Republicans controlling the Senate. “I’m sure they’d be thrilled, and Donald Trump would be thrilled if he stepped down,” says Dan Goldberg with the Alliance for Justice Action Campaign. All Rights Reserved. By Rudy Takala Jul 1st, 2020, 5:47 pm . Retirement rumors are swirling around Justices Thomas and Alito, with 48-year-old Amy Coney Barrett reportedly on the top of Trump’s list as a prospective replacement. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is the longest serving member of the nation’s high court. If there were an opening on the Supreme Court after an election in which Trump is defeated and the Democrats win the Senate, is there any doubt that McConnell would seek to fill it in the lame duck session? Whatever surprises Trump may have, Democrats won’t be safe from McConnell’s perfidy until Jan. 5, when the new Senate is sworn in. Turns out it was a weeks-old fall that the court kept quiet until a member at the private club where Roberts took the tumble tipped off The Senate of course would have to confirm Kavanaugh as chief justice, so he would have to go through another confirmation hearing. Now it’s also about ginning up the base for President Trump’s re-election, and those ubiquitous anonymous sources familiar with the president’s thinking The legal website Above the Law dubbed the folks pushing retirement rumors We did hear from Carrie Severino, president of the Judicial Crisis Network and a former law clerk for Thomas, Appointed by George W. Bush, Alito has been on the court 14 years, half as long as Thomas, who has been the far more significant figure. All materials contained on this site are protected by United States copyright law and may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcast, in whole or part, without the prior written permission of Great American Daily Press, LLC.You Won’t Believe Who Could Replace Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court “They could just do it (confirm him), but it wouldn’t be a political bonanza.” McConnell’s great political skill is having no shame. But do they really think vulnerable senators running for re-election want to vote right before an election in the middle of a pandemic for someone endorsed by Trump and endorsed by the Federalist Society with a record of overturning the Affordable Care Act, and who is hostile to abortion rights and LGBTQ protections? Retirement rumors are swirling around Justices Thomas and Alito, with 48-year-old Amy Coney Barrett reportedly on the top of Trump’s list as a prospective replacement. He withstood the battering he took for holding the late Justice Scalia’s seat open for a year without giving even a hearing to President Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland. Thomas won confirmation in 1991 after Joe Biden and other Democrats tried to use Anita Hill’s lies to derail his candidacy. That’s because this time it’s about more than Thomas and wanting to lock in another younger acolyte on the right. A news alert last week that Chief Justice John Roberts was hospitalized sent shock waves through Supreme Court-watchers. Barrett, 48, is on the Seventh Circuit of Appeals, appointed by Trump. Clarence Thomas retiring from Supreme Court would be a big loss, even if replaced by a conservative by Philip Klein | February 14, 2019 12:53 PM McConnell Planning to Ram Through Trump Pick if Clarence Thomas Retires Before Election: Report. The winner of the 2020 Presidential Election could reshape the Supreme Court with as many as three new appointments.And for months, retirement rumors swirled around Justice Clarence Thomas.And you won’t believe who could replace Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court.Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is the longest serving member of the nation’s high court.Thomas won confirmation in 1991 after Joe Biden and other Democrats tried to use Anita Hill’s lies to derail his candidacy.Liberals feared what a black conservative on the Supreme Court would mean and tried to sink him with what was up to that point the ugliest smear campaign in judicial nomination history.Thomas has repeatedly shot down retirement rumors, but there will continue to be speculation that whoever wins the 2020 election will appoint Thomas’s successor.If Trump wins, Thomas could retire while Republicans control the White House and Senate to allow President Trump to nominate a younger replacement.That would avoid the peril Democrats now find themselves in as they are hoping and praying 86-year-old Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s health doesn’t force her to retire while Trump is President and Mitch McConnell is the Senate Majority Leader.Should Democrats win the Presidency in 2020, they could hold the White House for eight years which would put a Democrat President in line to possibly nominate Thomas’s replacement.In the 2016 election, Donald Trump used the vacancy created by Antonin Scalia’s tragic death as a rallying cry for conservatives to turn out at the polls.Trump released a list of conservatives he pledged to pick from to replace Scalia if elected.That move paid off in spades as voters that made the Supreme Court their number one issue broke 56 percent to 41 percent for Donald Trump.Court nominations have always motivated Republican voters more than Democrats because Roe v Wade legalized abortion on demand in America.As the losing side in that case, conservatives drew more motivation to change the courts from a liberal policy board to an originalist centered third branch of government as the framers intended.Democrats are trying to train their voters to match the right’s enthusiasm for voting on filling judicial vacancies.That’s why during a campaign stop in Iowa, Joe Biden declared that he would nominate Barack Obama to the Supreme Court if he wins the election.Donald Trump won Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in part because black voter turnout rates dipped from the historic highs of Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.Biden is trying to kill two birds with one stone by announcing his intention to nominate Obama to the Supreme Court.First, Biden wants to try and copy Trump’s success from 2016 in motivating the base vote on Supreme Court nominations.Second, Biden seeks to juice black voter turnout to the Obama levels by promising to give Obama a historic promotion.Great American Daily will keep you up to date on any new developments in the 2020 Presidential Election.Copyright © 2020 Great American Daily Press, LLC. Thomas was narrowly confirmed after a charged hearing—presided over by Joe Biden—over sexual harassment claims, and his anger and bitterness over what he called “a high-tech lynching” has never left him. Bush, is privately seen by Trump’s aides as the most likely to retire this year. After 28 years, some conservatives think it’s time A year ago, when rumors first surfaced that Thomas might be mulling retirement, he gave a very general Shermanesque statement to shut down the speculation. “Justice Clarence Thomas, a conservative appointed by George H.W. She was the runner-up to Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, and her personal story as a strong practicing Catholic, mother of seven, including five biological children, one with special needs, and two children adopted from Haiti, make her a compelling figure on Trump’s side in the culture war.
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