Law Justice Anthony Kennedy to retire from Supreme Court

Washington (CNN)Justice Anthony Kennedy, a conservative who provided key votes for same sex-marriage, abortion access and affirmative action, will retire from the Supreme Court.

Kennedy's decision to step down could transform the Supreme Court for generations. President Donald Trump will have his second opportunity to nominate a justice and will likely replace Kennedy with a young, conservative jurist. That would create a bloc of five staunch conservative justices who could move the court further to the right and cement a conservative majority for the foreseeable future.
The nomination battle will likely ignite a firestorm on Capitol Hill as it comes just a year after Republicans changed the rules of the senate in order to push through the nomination of Justice Neil Gorsuch, Trump's first nominee.
This story is breaking and will be updated.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/27/politics/anthony-kennedy-retires/index.html

 

[The Great Citracett]

 

[knightlautrec]

And, again, this "fuck 'em, got mine" attitude and general ignorance of places outside your urban environment is part of why people who DO care about this country cannot stand self-obsessed urbanites like yourself. Kentucky isn't all rednecks and bourbon distilleries, there's a growing health sciences industry in Louisville, for example. The town's also one of the various Southern cities that's a magnet for tech companies fleeing California. Lexington's consistently been in the top 10 cities to start a new business in this country for the past 5 years. The south in general has been one of the fastest growing regions in the country this century.

Maybe by sheltering yourself in your concrete jungle it's you who has been made ignorant about the livelihoods and well being of your fellow countrymen.

I did some visiting in LA recently and most of them if not all, have a pretty poor opinion of the South (especially Texas) and for what reason? Just personal bias it seems. None of them have BEEN to the South, but they've seen a lot of Hollywood movies about the South and they think it's the reality. They go on about blue coast intelligence but none of them can be fucked to actually research or make an opinion that isn't prescribed by party lines or fiction. It's like some of them forget that a lot of Dems INCLUDING many many Presidents have come from southern states.

This shitty smug divide between coast vs heartlands is just making the US worse in every aspect.

 

[It's HK-47]

So what’s the betting pool on replacements? I’m guessing Don Willett as the most likely. As one of the finalists when he went with Gorsuch. Allison Eid And Amy Barrett are two others to watch. Both were recently Senate confirmed. Barrett is the one that got Feinstein in trouble for harassing her about being Catholic. I could see Trump rattling the Dem’s cage again in that way.

Oh, I didn't even see this post the first time around. Yeah, the White House already has a list of all the potential appointees to pick from, and Don Willett was the one that caught my eye, too. I think they have it narrowed down to just Brett Kavanaugh, Amul Thapar, Amy Barrett, Thomas Hardiman, and Raymond Kethledge, though I can't remember where or why that's stuck in my head, at the moment.

 

[Fareal]

lol calm down

- first fifty days of pregnancy

- send for six pills from internet marked “weight loss supplements” “fertility boosters” “menstrual herbal supplements” blah blah

- 200mg mifepristone

- 800mg misoprostol the next day

- fever/heavy bleeding = urgent care, cry about your suspected miscarriage, no one can prove otherwise

- success

it has literally never been easier or safer to do this at home, everyone gonna be fine

 

[The Great Citracett]

 

[Linako 2.0]

You know, these upset liberals are doing the wrong thing in their path to victory. You don't call them Nazi's, or punch them down as if they are the dying minority. And you sure as hell don't call for the end of the world whenever things don't go their way. You have to make them complacent, make them not care to the point they don't act, make them feel secure. They should have played the same card that killed them in 2016, and be the real silent majority. If they are claiming that stay-at-home voters are their enemy, they should be encourage their politically opposing voters to become stay-at-home voters. Instead of blaming the moderates of people who don't give a shit, you push for more people from the republican party to be moderates.

Their attitude against moderates and non-voters are incredibly toxic, when in reality you should be utilizing them to the best of abilities; If they are a lost cause for your cause, make them a lost cause for the other side. At least ignore the non-voters, because anyone who gets hurt by you will act against you.

 

[thismanlies]

I don't... What? Since when is 2018 an election year? I realize that they're trying to rally up and attack McConnell for that time he blocked the appointment of a new Supreme Court Justice, but McConnell was arguing that voters should determine who nominates the next the Supreme Court Justice, which is the president. He was trying to hold off the appointment until we knew who the next President was going to be.

It made sense in that situation. It doesn't really make sense, here.

Didn't that used to be known as the Biden Rule?

 

[JustStopDude]

Someone who knows American history can fix me if I am wrong. The Warren courts we're very liberal compared to today yes? This is same Warren that was Governor of California that locked up Americans and took property during WWII.

And Justice Kennedy was Reagan (conservative) appointment that was often liberal or conservative swing vote.

What is certainty that 1) Trump selects conservative and 2) that person rules consistently conservative?

Also, Russia do this? Russia do everything bad in America now?

 

[RP 520]

Someone who knows American history can fix me if I am wrong. The Warren courts we're very liberal compared to today yes? This is same Warren that was Governor of California that locked up Americans and took property during WWII.

Yeah, FDR's presidency was probably one of the most "progressive" presidencies in U.S. history, making it illegal to own gold, Japanese internment camps, press censorship and control (this is even before WW2), 3 1/2 term presidency, and an attempt to add an extra supreme court seat so FDR could stack the court overwhelmingly in his favor because they had ruled some of his New Deal unconstitutional.

 

[Herbert Hoover]

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Nigga what

Like even after whatever judge Trump puts in the court is still going to be 5-4. So I don't get the big deal.

Sometimes I wish I had the imagination of these people. But then I realize that would be nearly schizophrenic-levels of delusion

 

[CWCissey]

My understanding is Kennedy is a moderate Conservative that will meet in the middle.

Snowflakes are worried about a hardline Conservative judge being installed.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

What is certainty that 1) Trump selects conservative and 2) that person rules consistently conservative?

Also, Russia do this? Russia do everything bad in America now?

The answers to questions 1 and 2 are "high" and "moderate" respectively. Trump selecting someone approved by the Federalist Society and their ilk is almost a given, but whether that person stays that way for the years/decades they spend on the Court is something that's (historically) something of a coin flip. Lord Action was right, unfortunately. However, if Gorsuch is indicative, the odds are better than even that we'll get a consistent conservative.

And of course Russia did this. If you don't see how messing with esoteric Constitutional foodfights is part of Putin's six-million-dimensional backwards upside-down hyper-chess, you don't understand US politics.

 

[Null]

I am so thrilled with this administration, beyond my wildest dreams.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

"4 months away, there should be no consideration of a scotus replacement until the American people have had their say".

That is exactly the same bullshit language the Republican stonewallers used to block Obama from appointing a new justice, and leftards lost their shit at it. Okay when we do it though, right?

 

[RodgerDodger]

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Birth Control? Where the fuck are they getting Birth Control from? The only thing that might, might happen, with a new Justice is the laws governing aborting may be returned to the States, assuming if at some point the Court finds a case worthy of considering. If that were to happen what you will see is US aborting laws will suddenly come to resemble... those in liberal Europe. Oh the horror!!!

 

[RodgerDodger]

Didn't that used to be known as the Biden Rule?

It still is. In fact Pelosi just demanded that Mcconnell follow the Biden rule.

 

[Unpleasant]

They're trying to call out the repubs on hypocrisy, but it's a poor equivalence because-

Senator Reid (D-NV) nuked it in the first place, denocrats like Biden have suggested delaying nominees when they didn't like the incumbent president, and midterms aren't anywhere near the importance of a presidential election.

It's also moot because even if the blue wave wasn't dead, barely any Republican senate seats are up for a fight at all this year.

 

[Herbert Hoover]

They're trying to call out the repubs on hypocrisy, but it's a poor equivalence because-

Senator Reid (D-NV) nuked it in the first place, denocrats like Biden have suggesting delaying nominees when they didn't like the incumbent president, and midterms aren't anywhere near the importance of a presidential election.

It's also moot because even if the blue wave wasn't dead, barely any Republican senate seats are up for a fight at all this year.

And looking at the numbers now, Republicans could actually gain seats in the Senate in the midterms. And they wouldn't have to deal with lame ducks like Corker and Flake. If anything, if they wait until after the midterms Trump may have more control over who gets the seat cause he won't have to convince as many people who are against him

 

[PantsFreeZone]

I am so thrilled with this administration, beyond my wildest dreams.

Everyday is like fucking Christmas. More and more liberal insanity and tears. The best shitposting, the best. The mainstream legacy media and Hollywood literally sperging out on every form of social media. SJWs and Democrats being out as the authoritarian Communists they actually are. The DNC going broke and splintering.

I am so happy I live in this timeline.

 

[Joan Nyan]

man reading this thread reminds me how everyone in america outside of like, a mile radius of my house, not even that because one of the people down the hill had a trump sign, is a far right conservative. do y'all have barbecues every time the liberals lose? i've been assuming every time we hear about ice detaining people or whatever the entire state of kentucky cheers loudly

this is also why i can never move anywhere because i demand to live in my personal liberal bubble

I live in a liberal bubble and I cheer ICE arresting people.

The right is all around you.

There could be an undercover conservative right behind you right now and you don't even know it.

Nowhere is safe.