Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring. Mr. Trump will get to choose his replacement. And, wouldn’t it be nice if he had a Senate Majority to help him out with that?
Justice Anthony Kennedy announced today that he would retire from the Supreme Court, effective July 31. In a letter to President Donald Trump, Kennedy wrote that “it is the highest of honors to serve on this Court,” and he expressed his “profound gratitude for having had the privilege to seek in each case how best to know, interpret, and defend the Constitution and the laws that must always conform to its mandates and promises.”
The decision by the 81-year-old justice, who spent much of his 30 years on the court as a pivotal vote on a wide range of high-profile issues, especially since the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in 2006, is all but certain to kick off a pitched confirmation battle because of the possibility that his successor could move the court significantly to the right on a number of those issues.
A reasonable Republican Senate majority next year and another pick like Gorsuch, and we could be looking at several years (decades?) of verdicts that favor liberty, individual rights, and the Constitution as written.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Never Trumpers. And then consider, what would a President Hillary have delivered? Decades of Liberal destruction.
Don’t worry. You still have time to screw it up. We could end up with a Democrat Senate.
I’m not saying that will happen and I don’t think it will, but for the sake of the potential of another decent Supreme Court Judge and many years of liberty-leaning decisions, perhaps you can take a break from bashing the guy for a few months and help save the nation.
