Republican civil war brewing over Clinton Supreme Court? Fat chance

Chief Justice John Roberts is about to get the Supreme Court back.

While I’m sure that there are more than a few differences between them and we’ll need time to research them more thoroughly, I’m not really inclined to argue for or against any of these candidates when compared to another.

Then Nixon and a succession of Republican presidents filled most of the vacancies that arose through the years. “Maybe not the first one or the second one but at some point the president gets to put someone on the Supreme Court”. One dispute concerns a baker in Colorado, while another involves a florist in Washington state.

Kansans for Justice was the main group leading opposition to the retention of the court.

Trump’s ability to shape the court may extend beyond nominating a replacement for the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, have taken the position that because the vacancy occurred during an election year, the next president should be the one to pick the next justice. Senate Democrats, even when they controlled the Senate, did honor those GOP views, but Republicans have forsaken that traditional accommodation in recent times. “And with those remaining, the court is evenly split in terms of conservative versus progressive justices”, said Austin-Hillery. Now that it’s President-elect Donald Trump and a Republican majority in the Senate, what happens next? And by allowing money to swamp elections and vote suppression by state legislatures, a Republican supreme court would continue to tilt the political playing field in favor of the Republican Party. She cited abortion rights and efforts at ensuring racial equality as examples.

Future cases could impact everything from access to abortion to gun rights to immigration policies.

The election of Donald Trump on Tuesday dashed hopes among liberals that the nation’s highest court could have its first liberal majority in almost a half century, legal and political analysts said Wednesday, and virtually ensures a majority-conservative court for years to come. “An already very conservative jurisprudence will deepen and may broaden, encompassing areas that had always been resistant, such as abortion rights”.

With the election of (my friend and University of Missouri law professor) Joshua Hawley as Missouri’s new attorney general, the not-yet-scheduled Trinity Lutheran case regarding church eligibility for state playground funds will likely be settled.

The spokesman added: “The exact number of days and timings will depend on further submissions received from the parties on the precise legal arguments to be considered, the number of interveners and whether any other related cases are joined to this one”.

Kansans for Fair Courts led the effort to keep all of the justices.

In addition to NAFTA, Trump said the US would withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, another trade accord Trump said hurts the American middle class.

He is also likely to use his executive authority to undo the Obama administration’s approach to climate change, transgender rights and clashes between religious beliefs and contraception coverage, again effectively pulling the plug on pending challenges in the courts.

Does this mean that Trump will indeed pick someone from his list of 21 potential nominees?

Officials set the timetable after confirming that the court had now received a formal notification of the British government’s intention to appeal last Thursday’s decision in the High Court over the triggering of Britain’s exit process from the European Union.

“I hear what’s being said about that, but I think that’s a dereliction of duty”, Perdue said, pointing to the Senate’s constitutional role on judicial nominations.