Comments on: Will Justice Kennedy retire?

By: ymarsakar

ymarsakar — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 15:31:00 +0000

Reading human predictions is kind of funny. Most of them are wrong.

I don’t make predictions unless I have done the work and received the spiritual verification.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 19:57:59 +0000

Hah. Jack Crowe reminds us that, in order to prevail, the Dems have to get at least past the mid-terms and also upset some GOP senators .

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/anthony-kennedy-retiring-trump-second-scotus-pick/

“Holding a 51-seat majority in the Senate, Republicans ostensibly have the votes to withstand Democratic opposition due to a rule change, advanced last April by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, which lowered the confirmation threshold for Supreme Court justices from 60 votes to a simple majority.”

This would be a really bad time for McCain to get his maverick dander riled up again, even if he does retire this year.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 19:49:02 +0000

Looks like he wants to secure his “constitutional legacy” before he is faced with another touchy-feely case that forces him to upend the Bill of Rights again.

There are at least 3 posts up on NRO at the moment; haven’t read all of them yet.

Let’s hope Trump gets another Thomas or Scalia past the Senate.

Ed Whelan may be overly optemistic; I suspect the Dems will drag this out as long as they can, unless threatened with something really fierce by McConnell.
Heh.

https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/justice-kennedy-retires/

“I’d guess that President Trump will announce his nominee in mid- or late July. The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing could take place in late August (the Senate is set to remain in session in August), with a final Senate vote in early or mid-September. That would enable the new Justice to be on board in plenty of time for the Court’s next term, which opens on October 1.”

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 18:22:05 +0000

Looks like…. YES!

By: Stubbs

Stubbs — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 15:28:20 +0000

I read months ago that Kennedy had not hired any new clerks.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 15:08:08 +0000

Yancey Ward Says:
June 27th, 2018 at 1:40 am
“They will die at their desks”

Taxidermists can work wonders- I am not sure death will get them off the court.
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Behold the Zombie Apocalypse.
The dead hand of FDR is still at work.

By: Yancey Ward

Yancey Ward — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 05:42:32 +0000

I think Thomas is more likely to retire than Kennedy- Thomas has a great deal more incentive to have a Republican President and Senate nominate and approve his replacement- it would be one final poke in the eye of his cretinous opponents.

By: Yancey Ward

Yancey Ward — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 05:40:06 +0000

“They will die at their desks”

Taxidermists can work wonders- I am not sure death will get them off the court.

By: lynndh

lynndh — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 04:19:44 +0000

IF the Dems win the Senate, and Kennedy retires, then the Dems will say NO new Supreme until the next President. You know 2 yr from the next election is just too close so no Judge.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:53:45 +0000

Unfortunately, the track record for Republican appointed judges is more, uh, problematic than the Democrat track record. Sure, Clarence Thomas, and Antonin Scalia. But Republicans appointed Kennedy, and Souter, and before thim Earl Warren (Eisenhower appointee), Harry Blackmun (Nixon appointee). Sandra Day O’Connor was a funny one: she almost always tended to go for states’ rights over strong central government — a Republican thing — but otherwise, tended liberal on anything else.