TRUMP will get to appoint another Supreme Court Justice.

On the plus side, at least this next SCOTUS appointment will be legitimate.

If Trump sticks to the list of 25 candidates he previously disclosed, It will be a good day for the rule of law.  

If Trump sticks to the list of 25 candidates he previously disclosed, It will be a good day for the rule of law.

More to the point-- if he sticks to that list, repeal of Roe v Wade is 100% certain. (Not immediately, but it will definitely happen).

It is a great day for the Constitution. Hopefully Trump gets another after this one!

Hillary should get an honorary Nobel prize for losers for making all this possible.

One way or another, that old loon Ginsberg should be the next to go. 

If Trump completes this term and is re-elected for another term, the Trump presidency will be the most influential in the nation's history.  Indeed, America will be remade. 

It is very possible that an eight year term of a Trump Administration will be able to install at least five and possibly six justices on The Supreme Court, not to mention the lower courts.  Any administration possessing the ability to reshape the courts in their image will make them untouchable.  Erdogan comes to mind.  So does Xi.

The question remains, "Is Trump that man?"

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Is it destiny? 

And also.  On June 30, 1934 the SA were literally eliminated as a Nazi security and political force by orders from Hitler to the SS.

No, that's pretty foolish.

I hate socialist.

Then why do you like Trump?

On June 30, 1934 the SA were literally eliminated as a Nazi security and political force by orders from Hitler to the SS.

Yes, like many of Trumps past cronies they had served their purpose so, he didn't need them any more.

No, that's pretty foolish.

Not if Trump gets to stack the SCOTUS with his people and, continues to make the Republican Congress march to his tune, he has in effect become the dictator that he wants to be.

Trump is not a socialist but Nazi's were. nationalist socialist workers party like I said I hate socialist.

Remember these people?

Trump said they are good people.

Ah yes...the obligatory Nazi reference. Another epic fail.

Ah yes...the obligatory Nazi reference. Another epic fail.

If the shoe fits...…..

Actually, he NEVER said that and you know quite well that is a LIE.
He said there were bad ON BOTH SIDES.
Which is quite true.

Try again,

“You also had some very fine people on both sides,” he said.
The “Unite the Right” rally that sparked the violence in Charlottesville featured several leading names in the white-nationalist alt-right movement, and also attracted people displaying Nazi symbols. As they walked down the street, the white-nationalist protesters chanted “blood and soil,” the English translation of a Nazi slogan. One of the men seen marching with the fascist group American Vanguard, James A. Fields, is charged with deliberately ramming a car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing 32-year-old counter-protester Heather Heyer.

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He also said there were good people on both sides which is untrue, unless you think some Nazis are good people.

not bad on both sides, but fine on both sides. Which is in fact true. NOT everyone on both sides were lowlife scumbag thugs, but BOTH sides did in fact have them.

Which is in fact false, the scumbags were on the side that allowed Neo-Nazi's and, KKK members to join them. My father spilled his blood from North Africa to Germany to stop the Nazi's from taking over the world and, now we have a POTUS who is glorifying them on national TV, I have fought against the prejudices of the KKK and, people like them since I was 16 and, here we have a POTUS that thinks they're "fine people", BULLSHIT.

Here's a hint..... BOTH sides using violence to promote their viewpoint were and are in fact lowlife scumbag thugs.
There is a way, at least in this country, to voice your opinion without violence. BUT, once you engage in that violence, you have just lowered yourself to exactly what you're opposing.

Which side brought guns to a "peaceful rally"? Oh, yeah, the side that had the KKK and, Neo-Nazi's on it. Which side had someone drive through a crowd of protesters, killing one of them? Oh, yeah, the side that had the Neo-Nazi's on it. The point? It's like my mother use to say, "You sleep with dogs you get fleas."

What I read was that the group who did the reporting on this in one of the articles were actually acting as protection for the anti-protesters because the Neo-Nazi's and, the KKK were threatening them even the night before the rally took place. Seems the scumbags were all on the right that day.

so reading is not your forte.

From your article you posted.

This weekend, the stakes were raised at an event called “Unite the Right,” organized to tie together white supremacist groups across the spectrum. Participating groups and white supremacist personalities included Richard Spencer, Matthew Heimbach of the Traditionalist Worker’s Party, Baked Alaska, Based Stickman, Augustus Invictus, Mike Enoch, Proud Boys, the Ku Klux Klan, and Nazi groups.

Locals and members of surrounding communities gathered in Charlottesville to take a stand against the “Unite the Right” rally, and defend their town from white supremacist organizing. Five Redneck Revolt branches from nearby towns have been on the ground in Charlottesville since yesterday, and working closely with the SRA, BLM, and local organizers to develop plans to protect the local community.
Last night, Dr. Cornel West and several local faith leaders called for a prayer meeting at the St. Paul’s Memorial Church in Charlottesville. Armed Redneck Revolt members were on-hand to assist with security, when word was received that the 300+ white supremacists were marching with torches across the University of Virginia campus towards the church. Across the street from the church, the fascist march encountered several anti-fascist and student counter-protestors, and a skirmish erupted. Redneck Revolt members assisted with escorting folks from the church to their cars, and everyone was evacuated safely.

Today, with hundreds more white supremacists expected to converge on Charlottesville, our Redneck Revolt branches worked together with local organizers to create and secure a staging area at Justice Park, within a short distance of the planned Unite the Right rally location, Emancipation Park (formerly Lee Park). Approximately 20 Redneck Revolt members created a security perimeter around the park, most of them open-carrying tactical rifles.

Starting from early in the morning, there were eruptions of violence scattered throughout downtown Charlottesville, and around 11:30am, the governor of Virginia declared a state of emergency and ordered the police to cancel and evacuate the “Unite the Right” rally. National Guard and local police forces worked to contain the scattered violence, with little impact.
Throughout the day, the staging area at Justice Park was a safe haven for a wide range of protesters and other community members. Support teams provided food, water, medical support, and sanctuary, and groups such as the Quakers, Black Lives Matter, antifa groups, queer radical orgs, and the IWW moved in and out of Justice Park as needed to regroup and take care of each others’ injuries.

At many points during the day, groups of white supremacists approached Justice Park, but at each instance, Redneck Revolt members formed a unified skirmish line against them, and the white supremacists backed down. Most of the groups were not easily identified, but at separate points, contingents from Identity Europa and the Proud Boys were recognized. The groups that threatened the park yelled racial and homophobic slurs, and many yelled things specifically at the Redneck Revolt fire teams which indicated that they were familiar with our principles. Some of the groups that approached numbered as many as 40 people, but the security of Justice Park was never breached.
The worst moment of an entire weekend of white supremacist violence came when someone rammed their Dodge Charger into a large crowd of anti-racist protesters. A 32 year old woman was killed, and at least 19 others have been reported injured. The crash and screams were heard by the groups staged at Justice Park, and two Redneck Revolt members ran down the street and assisted in direct medical support.

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It looks like self defense to me.

I'm willing to admit that there were scumbags on both sides.

Don't blame me if your linked story refutes what you are saying, maybe it is you who needs to look beyond their hate.

Now, are you able to see that BOTH sides in fact had lowlife scumbag thugs at Charlottesville? Besides reading, try comprehending what is read.

I am comprehending what is written, you said "lowlife scumbag thugs", from what was in your article that YOU posted the Redneck Revolt was there as security for the anti-protesters, they weren't marching anywhere, they were assisting in taking care of injury's and, keeping the "safe space" safe, while the KKK and, the Neo-Nazi's were acting like thugs, attacking people, running over them with cars and, walking the whole town with AR-15's so, it seems to me that the "lowlife scumbags" are the KKK and, the Neo-Nazi's that were present and, those who support their actions that day.

C’mon Springfield, you know better than that.    When behavior doesn’t support the narrative one is trying to shove down others throats, one just denys/ignores that it ever happened.

SOP for many folks on here ......

And yet you have the audacity to now try and claim, one side was good and the other bad doing so? To say your attempt was pathetic is being kind.

I was wondering if I could get a rise out of you on this, now I see I can. Here's my thinking on it, the people who allowed the KKK and, Neo-Nazi's to infest their ranks are less honorable than the people who didn't, the KKK and, Neo-Nazi crowd have only one agenda, make America White Again and, they think Trump and, the GOP are their ticket to do it, letting them gain ground in the GOP and, defending them in these protests shows that the people who support Trump support their ideals, which makes them no better than them. The other folks on the other side of that protest as I said were defending the counter protesters from the KKK and, Neo-Nazi types and, lending medical aid when needed, they also don't have an agenda even close to what the KKK and, the Neo-Nazi's have. Wishing everyone had equal rights under the law isn't a bad thing, getting rid of icons that promote racism isn't a bad thing, it's too bad that some folks can't see that.

If you want to call be pathetic for sticking up for others rights then go ahead, after all weren't you one of the ones saying that EVERYONE should have second amendment rights? So, how can both sides be bad, if they both have guns, one side is bad because of their ideals, they go against the Constitution, the other side wants even the "bad guys with guns" to have equal rights under the law.

I've always felt that only brilliant jurists should serve on the Supreme Court of any nation.  In Canada, for example, the most brilliant jurist in the country, the former Dean of the University of Toronto Law School, the late Bora Laskin, became the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, and his judgements were infallible. I am not aware of the quality of, nor even the names of the "25" on Trump's list, but the one jurist in America that I am familiar with is the one I would appoint to the SCOTUS, notwithstanding that he is a Democrat and a liberal, and that is Allan Dershowitz, not only because he is a brilliant jurist, but because he is so sensible, logical and dedicated to the extent that proper interpretation of the law and its application would be bound to "trump" (pun intended) personal politics.

Well, the last person that Trump put up for a federal judgeship wasn't even qualified to be a local judge, he hadn't served as a lawyer yet and, had no knowledge of federal law.

Washington (CNN)A Trump judicial nominee struggled to answer basic legal questions posed to him by a Republican senator on Wednesday, including his lack of experience on trial work, the amount of depositions he'd worked on and more.
During his testimony, Matthew Spencer Petersen, who currently serves as a commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, was asked a string of questions by GOP Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana about his experience on trials, including how many depositions Petersen had worked on--the answer was less than five -- and the last time he had read the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure -- he said he couldn't remember.
Petersen is up for a seat on the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

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Well, he already surpassed the qualifications to be on the 9th Circuit.

No he didn't, he couldn't answer the simplest of questions from a Republican Congressman, damn! Look at the video.

Well, the last person that Trump put up for a federal judgeship wasn't even qualified to be a local judge,

What qualifies a judge in your mind?

Ginsburg for example never served one minute as a judge, at any level, before she became a SC justice.  

Gorsuch served over ten years on a US circuit court and therefore was immeasurably more qualified by comparison.

Teaching law is not even remotely close to the same thing.   Which is why most SC justices have had significant experience on the bench prior to being nominated for the SC.

Gorsuch served over ten years on a US circuit court and therefore was immeasurably more qualified by comparison. Teaching law is not even remotely close to the same thing.

I remember Gorsuch from my time in Colorado, I thought he was a right leaning centrist, which in my mind made him a good choice at the time so, I kept my mouth shut on his nomination. I didn't know enough about Ginsburg to make a choice there but, I did know enough about the president at the time to know that it was probably a good choice. In Trumps case the only thing he has in mind is saving his own ass from prosecution as evidenced by his remarks concerning the DOJ and, Sessions.

"Teaching law is not even remotely close to the same thing.   Which is why most SC justices have had significant experience on the bench prior to being nominated for the SC."

That's a bit of a generalization. As I pointed out above, one of the best Supreme Court of Canada justices of all time was the Dean of the University of Toronto Law School, the late Bora Laskin, the most academically rated law school in the country, and he was a brilliant justice - no judge or law professor in Canada would ever disagree with that.

The ability to put the law before personal opinion is key and any judge may or may not rule in the direction of the person who appointed him/her.  As it should be.  I agree on Dershowitz, though the Palestinian supporters would go absolutely insane, not that the anti-Trump crowd isn't right around the corner from there alredy.

The ability to put the law before personal opinion is key and any judge may or may not rule in the direction of the person who appointed him/her.

You won't get that with a Trump nominee.

You won't get that with a Trump nominee.

You wouldn't have got it with any Clinton nominee either. Thankfully, that will never happen.

You wouldn't have got it with any Clinton nominee either. Thankfully, that will never happen.

Well, I guess we'll never find out now will we? The thing is we already know about Trump, considering he's had "interviews" with some of his judicial nominees in the past and, he has said of Sessions, "I wouldn't have made him Attorney General if I had known he'd recuse himself." in other words, "He's suppose to be my attorney, not the attorney for America!"

Another Christofascist nut case coming to the Supreme Court.  Say goodbye to legal abortion.  

All the possible nominees are pro-life

that's one of the few bad things

Do you think that only liberal women get abortions?  Newsflash Gregger, abortion is TOTALLY bi-partisan, yet there is a totally partisan fight over its legality.  Weird huh?

I wonder when the DNC will admit that it fucked up big time by nominating to one person who could possibly lose to Trump?