There is no justice...... RBG RIP!

[Foxaèr]

Trump selects Amy Coney Barrett to fill empty SCOTUS seat

The president’s nomination of Judge Barrett, a favorite of conservatives, to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, will kick off a furious and unprecedented scramble to confirm her in the Senate before Election Day.

President Trump has selected Judge Amy Coney Barrett, the favorite candidate of conservatives, to succeed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and will try to force Senate confirmation before Election Day in a move that would significantly alter the ideological makeup of the Supreme Court for years.

Mr. Trump plans to announce on Saturday that she is his choice, according to six people close to the process who asked not to be identified disclosing the decision in advance.

As they often do, aides cautioned that Mr. Trump sometimes upends his own plans. But he is not known to have interviewed any other candidates and came away from two days of meetings with Judge Barrett this week impressed with a jurist he was told would be a female Antonin Scalia, referring to the justice she once clerked for.

“I haven’t said it was her, but she is outstanding,” Mr. Trump told reporters who asked about Judge Barrett’s imminent nomination at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington after returning Friday evening from a trip to Florida and Georgia.

The president’s political advisers hope the selection will energize his conservative political base in the thick of an election campaign in which he has for months been trailing former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., his Democratic challenger. But it could also rouse liberal voters afraid that her confirmation could spell the end of Roe v. Wade, the decision legalizing abortion, as well as other rulings popular with the political left and center.

The nomination will kick off an extraordinary scramble by Senate Republicans to confirm her for the court in the 38 days before the election on Nov. 3, a scenario unlike any in American history. While other justices have been approved in presidential election years, none has been voted on after July. Four years ago, Senate Republicans refused to even consider President Barack Obama’s nomination to replace Justice Scalia with Judge Merrick B. Garland, announced 237 days before Election Day, on the grounds that it should be left to whoever was chosen as the next president.

[Foxaèr]

Trump SCOTUS pick to get boost from conservative groups

The White House, Republican lawmakers and their conservative allies are preparing for a whirlwind confirmation fight that will begin the moment President Trump announces his Supreme Court pick on Saturday.

The White House is already setting up meetings between the pending nominee and Republican senators, and Trump aides are discussing bringing on outside advisers to shepherd the president’s pick through the Senate, according to people familiar with the matter. A network of influential conservative groups is preparing to spend more than $20 million in support of the president’s nominee and is drafting advertising that will blanket airways next week, people involved in the effort said.

Mr. Trump’s announcement will end a week of speculation about the pick, and a growing number of Republicans want to get the jurist confirmed by Election Day.

White House officials and others close to the president think he is leaning toward choosing U.S. Appeals Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett of the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, according to people familiar with the process. Also mentioned as in the running is Judge Barbara Lagoa of the 11th Circuit in Atlanta.

Conservatives have been building a network of outside groups to boost Republican Supreme Court nominees for decades, beginning after the Senate rejected President Reagan’s nominee to the high court, Robert Bork, in 1987. Since then, the groups have raised millions of dollars from wealthy donors who view building a conservative judiciary as a top priority.

Although Mr. Trump’s nominee is expected to win Senate approval, conservative leaders say they aren’t taking any chances, especially after the polarizing 2018 confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The groups also believe that the confirmation fight will drive voters to the polls.

[Rank Stranger]

I expect the Democrats to once again bring a stalk of kale to a knife fight.

[The Architect Of Fate]

The fact it is a knife fight says it all

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

There is no fight. There’s nothing to fight over and, even if there were, no means to fight it. This woman is going to be confirmed, full stop.

Boru

[Rank Stranger]

There is no fight. There’s nothing to fight over and, even if there were, no means to fight it. This woman is going to be confirmed, full stop.

Boru

There's that stalk of kale

[The Architect Of Fate]

There is no fight. There’s nothing to fight over and, even if there were, no means to fight it. This woman is going to be confirmed, full stop.

Boru

There's that stalk of kale

What would you have the Dems do?