This is pretty huge
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy says he's retiring effective July 31. Kennedy stepping down would mark a second high-court pick for President Trump. https://t.co/7Do7LBbAzT https://t.co/N78qS5Orid
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 27, 2018
(Fox News) Justice Anthony Kennedy announced Wednesday that he is retiring, giving President Trump a critical opportunity to move the Supreme Court more solidly to the right in what promises to be an epic confirmation fight.
The 81-year-old senior associate justice informed the White House in a letter of his intention to step down from the high court after 30 years, effective July 31. Rumors of another vacancy have reverberated across Washington in recent months, and it comes a year after Kennedy’s former law clerk Justice Neil Gorsuch, took over the seat occupied by the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
Trump, reacting to the news, called Kennedy a “great justice” and said he’d begin the search for a replacement immediately.
Trump will probably have a replacement announced next week, because he already had a big list of qualified candidates, and Mitch McConnell will hold a vote by August.
And, of course, we’re already getting things like
https://twitter.com/PalmerReport/status/1012043689865035777
Oh, and btw
https://twitter.com/BenGoldey/status/1012060790705278977
That was about Democrats using the nuclear option to stop all filibusters on anything but a Supreme Court justice. Think Mitch might end up pulling the trigger if Dems try and stop a qualified candidate for SCOTUS?
That small popping sound you just heard was the sound of liberal minds exploding.
All of them simultaneously. Still barely audible even to those without tinnitus.
Trump’s nominee will only need a simple majority vote for confirmation thanks to donk recalcitrance.
kennedy retires….ya think Ginsberg can read the writing on the wall yet??
not tired of winning yet.
The only way that President Trump gets to appoint someone to the seat currently being moldered in by Justice Ginsberg is if she drops stone cold graveyard dead. She’d go to work in a wheelchair, with a chest tube, arterial line and poop bag before retiring while Mr Trump is in office.
Stephen Breyer is no spring chicken.
Trump was having a little fun with the Lefties yesterday, noting the Wise Latina is a diabetic.
Think he knows something? And, yes, he said, he just might have the chance to replace RGB, too.
“Only shot at remaining out of prison…â€. For what? Drama Queen
Re: Supreme Court Justices
Nobody who wants to change The Constitution should be in charge of defending it.
The ‘Living, breathing document’ argument just means they don’t like The Constitution.
The job as written requires Constitutional Conservatives.
MAGA requires SC Justices that are true to their oath – not progressive liars.
The Great news is that it looks like we are getting there….
Saw a good one: ..â€I’m waiting for the Ninth Circuit to overturn Kennedy’s resignation.â€
Our esteemed host erred:
Already been done: the Democrats tried to stop the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch with a filibuster, and the Majority Leader warned them what would happen. The Democrats persisted, and Senator McConnell was as good as his word.