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Report: Justice Kennedy May Announce Retirement From Supreme Court
Posted on 6/26/17 at 8:52 am
Posted on 6/26/17 at 8:52 am
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What if this leads to the overturning of RvW in 2 to 3 years?
The melt would be epic. 
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White House sources think Justice Anthony Kennedy might announce his retirement from the Supreme Court Monday, Mike Allen reports.
The announcement would give President Trump the opportunity to replace Kennedy — who leans right but serves as the ideological center of the court — with a more conservative justice. A second Trump appointment of a justice along the ideological lines of Neil Gorsuch would put the balance of the court at five conservative justices to four liberal justices.
“Replacing Kennedy would be even more historic and consequential: a momentous chance to edge the Court right, since Kennedy is the center of the Court — the one most willing to listen to both sides,” Allen writes in his politics newsletter. “On a controversial case, both sides pitch to him. It’s been called ‘Kennedy’s Court.'”
Kennedy has sat on the court nearly 30 years, making him the longest serving of the current justices.
What if this leads to the overturning of RvW in 2 to 3 years?
The melt would be epic. 
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Posted on 6/26/17 at 8:53 am to GumboPot
Liberals will try to expand the court when they get power if things get stacked against them.
Posted on 6/26/17 at 8:54 am to GumboPot
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What if this leads to the overturning of RvW in 2 to 3 years?
Do you have an argument for why Roe v. Wade is unconstitutional? Or is it an issue you want the Supreme Court to solve through politics?
Posted on 6/26/17 at 8:54 am to GumboPot
If it happens, it happens. No point getting all wee-weed up for nothing
Posted on 6/26/17 at 8:56 am to GumboPot
I don't think he leaves knowing that democRats will have no say in the replacement.
Posted on 6/26/17 at 8:57 am to StringedInstruments
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Do you have an argument for why Roe v. Wade is unconstitutional?
Abortion is not specified in the constitution so it's left to the states?
Posted on 6/26/17 at 8:59 am to TrueTiger
I'll bet he stays on just because he's frustrated with people hanging around like vultures talking about him stepping down.
It's the same token that if republicans weren't literally begging for Ginsberg to die (myself included) she probably wouldn't be fighting so hard to stay alive and would have just died by now.
It's the same token that if republicans weren't literally begging for Ginsberg to die (myself included) she probably wouldn't be fighting so hard to stay alive and would have just died by now.
Posted on 6/26/17 at 9:00 am to GumboPot
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Deplorable Jim @jmerrick82yaho1
Deplorable Jim Retweeted Trump USA
It would be a great way for Kennedy to exit by restoring the power of the executive branch upholding the travel ban. #TravelBan @POTUS #MAGA
crosses fingers the left and MSM would melt down
But as I posted on SCOTUSblog thread--- Kennedy hired his people.
Posted on 6/26/17 at 9:00 am to GumboPot
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Abortion is not specified in the constitution so it's left to the states?
Thank you. Why is that so difficult for folks to wrap their brains around? The powers of the federal government should begin and end at defending our borders, ratifying treaties/declaring war, printing money, levying taxes (unfortunately), and running the post office. That's really about it.
Posted on 6/26/17 at 9:01 am to GumboPot
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Posted on 6/26/17 at 9:02 am to GumboPot
Posted on 6/26/17 at 9:02 am to GumboPot
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What if this leads to the overturning of RvW in 2 to 3 years?
Not going to happen and shouldn't happen. RvW was grounded in terms of Constitutional Freedoms and I would hate to see Justices stoop to bending arguments around for political purposes. For the same exact reason that I don't want them bending around the First, Second and Fourth, they shouldn't mess with well-grounded reasoning.
Posted on 6/26/17 at 9:03 am to StringedInstruments
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Do you have an argument for why Roe v. Wade is unconstitutional?
Murder is bad? There is no constitutional right to murder someone for your own convenience?
Posted on 6/26/17 at 9:05 am to Damone
Roe v. Wade was a travesty of constitutional jurisprudence. Just because it is over 40 years old does not make it less of a travesty. It took a mind bending level of judicial sleight of hand to make that happen.
Posted on 6/26/17 at 9:07 am to Pax Regis
i don't think Roe gets overturned with a solid 5-4 court, but i will agree with this
THAT has always been the biggest issue with Roe
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It took a mind bending level of judicial sleight of hand to make that happen.
THAT has always been the biggest issue with Roe
Posted on 6/26/17 at 9:11 am to Damone
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RvW was grounded in terms of Constitutional Freedoms
Emanating from the penumbra, right?
AKA "pulled from our arse."
Posted on 6/26/17 at 9:13 am to StringedInstruments
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Do you have an argument for why Roe v. Wade is unconstitutional?
Because it was. Even its most aredent defenders acknowledge that it was a poorly "reasoned" decision that was on very shaky legal grounds.
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Or is it an issue you want the Supreme Court to solve through politics?
What the frick do you think Roe was? Abortion was already being legalized at the state level and had the SC stayed out of it, it would never have become the lightning rod it is today.
Posted on 6/26/17 at 9:16 am to GumboPot
I wish you wouldn't have made this thread. Don't want to jinx it.
Posted on 6/26/17 at 9:16 am to GumboPot
I don't think Kennedy is going anywhere.
Posted on 6/26/17 at 9:17 am to Damone
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Not going to happen and shouldn't happen. RvW was grounded in terms of Constitutional Freedoms and I would hate to see Justices stoop to bending arguments around for political purposes. For the same exact reason that I don't want them bending around the First, Second and Fourth, they shouldn't mess with well-grounded reasoning.
RvW reasoning could be characterized as "bending". The constitution is a contract between states that outlines the extent of the federal government's authority. Everything else, that is everything not authorized by the states in the constitution is left up to the states. Abortion is not mentioned in the constitution unless you "bend" the arguments to make it fit.
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