Exclusive: Top Trump Allies Preparing For Supreme Court Vacancy

[Dulcinea]

(Time) White House officials and a close circle of conservative lawyers are preparing for President Donald Trump to be able to hit the ground running if a Supreme Court vacancy opens up during the remaining three and a half years of his second term, according to sources inside and outside the White House.

The discussions are in early stages and focus on finding a nominee in the mold of Samuel Alito, 75, and Clarence Thomas, 77, the two oldest justices, both of whom are considered stalwart conservative jurists who have taken narrow interpretations of the Constitutional text while backing an expansive view of Presidential power. Shortlists of judges are circulating among Trump allies as they debate who can be best trusted to stick with the Court's conservative wing during an appointment that could last decades.

“We are looking for people in the mold of Alito, Clarence Thomas and the late Scalia,” said a White House official familiar with the process, referring to Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in 2016. The official said it was “premature” to say the White House was getting ready for a vacancy.

Republicans currently control the Senate, which must confirm any nominee to the court. The party also controlled the Senate throughout Trump’s first term, allowing Trump to appoint three Justices—Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett— who were all well-regarded in conservative legal circles.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/exclusive-inside-planning-trumps-next-214215740.html

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Or they're praying for Justice Sotomayor's diabetes to make her Bench duties

impossible.

[Lonestarblue]

2. Whoever it is will be far worse than Thomas or Alito.

One possibility is James Ho of the Fifth Circuit. He is far, far right. This article is a couple of years old, but it’s about how Ho has been groomed for the SC. With Trump’s supposed falling out with the Federalist Society, Ho might not be at the top of his list.

“Since his appointment to the Fifth Circuit by Donald Trump in 2018, Ho has been campaigning to replace the oldest current Supreme Court justice and the one most likely to retire under the next Republican presidential administration: Clarence Thomas. Ho, a darling of the Federalist Society, has been groomed for exactly this purpose. He attended elite universities (Stanford for college, the University of Chicago for law school). He clerked for Thomas. He’s taken all the right jobs to rise up the conservative ranks—including serving as the solicitor general of Texas. (He succeeded Senator Ted Cruz in that role and was replaced by Jonathan Mitchell, the creator of Texas’s fugitive uterus bill, which placed a bounty on people who provide help to those seeking abortions.) And he seems to be in with the real power players in the Republican judge-making apparatus: the donor class. Indeed, Ho was sworn in as a Fifth Circuit judge by Thomas in—wait for it—Harlan Crow’s personal library.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/james-ho-next-clarence-thomas/

[Blue Owl]

3. When a system allows a pedophile/criminal to install the highest court in the land

That system has a BIG FUCKING FLAW that needs fixing.

[lark]

4. They will make sure Sotomayor dies, just like they did with RBG.

Only question is will it be Bove or Cannon - both are complete fascists fucking magats.