Trump Interviews Four Supreme Court Candidates, Temporarily Reorganizing White House Staff to Push a

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: New York Times

Trump Interviews Four Supreme Court Candidates, Temporarily Reorganizing White House Staff to Push a Nomination

By Michael D. Shear
July 2, 2018

WASHINGTON — President Trump said he spoke Monday morning with four candidates to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who is retiring, as the White House raced to meet the president’s deadline to announce a Supreme Court nominee in one week.
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White House officials declined to say which potential judicial nominees Mr. Trump talked with Monday morning, but the short list of candidates is believed to include six federal appeals court judges: Thomas M. Hardiman, William H. Pryor Jr., Amul R. Thapar, Brett M. Kavanaugh, Joan L. Larsen and Amy Coney Barrett.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/us/politics/trump-supreme-court-nomination.html

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Just pick the WASPiest Fundamentalist

and you'll know who it is right away

[hibbing]

2. I predict a white male n/t

[sandensea]

3. My guess: Amy Coney Barrett

Far-right Catholic fundamentalist, Federalist (pro-GOP dictatorship) Society, 46 years old, Deep Southerner, a woman.

Cheeto would have all the bases covered with this one.

[DesertRat]

4. I think so too

Amy Coney Barrett is thought to be one of the leading contenders and is almost surely one of the two women Trump has now said is on his shortlist ahead of the announcement of the pick July 9. She's the one female candidate who was on pretty much everybody's shortlist, in fact.

And she checks a lot of boxes. Like his previous pick, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, she's young (46), good on her feet, telegenic, unmistakably conservative and, with seven children, has the kind of family you want sitting behind you during tense confirmation hearings. Unlike Gorsuch, of course, she's a woman — a fact that could help mitigate the onslaught of questions about whether she would help overturn Roe v. Wade. Barrett is also from Indiana, which could apply pressure on its vulnerable Democratic senator, Joe Donnelly, to vote for her.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/07/02/one-possible-trump-supreme-court-pick-who-makes-too-much-sense

[DeminPennswoods]

7. Doesn't she also belong to a catholic cult?

One where she has an advisor who she consults with and tells her what to do?

[DesertRat]

8. I don't know.

[DeminPennswoods]

9. Found it, People of Praise

Seems sort of like Scientology for Catholics. Kind of scary despite sounding benign.

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_of_Praise

Also NYT from 2017: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/us/amy-coney-barrett-nominee-religion.html

[DesertRat]

13. Thank you

I was raised Catholic and have never heard of it.

[secondwind]

5. That is what I think as well... whoever it is, it will be ghastly.

[sandensea]

10. Absolutely. She's straight out of 'A Handmaid's Tale'.

Which, of course, means she's very likely to be nominated by this administration.

Desert Rat, just above, posted some other very good reasons to believe she might be the nominee.

November can't get here fast enough.

[DeminPennswoods]

11. Apparently, according to the NYT article, Senators

weren't aware of her membership in this cult. Once that news goes mainstream, I don't think she can survive that scrutiny. There's just too many comparisons to scientology and other religious cults to be made.

[elmac]

6. an interesting take on stopping a vote

https://hotair.com/archives/2018/06/27/heres-democrats-block-vote-trumps-scotus-nominee/

[sandensea]

12. Intriguing.

Denial of quorum is a well-known tactic in other countries where congressional minorities are run roughshod by high-handed majorities - but will it work here?

I ask because knowing Bitchy Mitchy, he'll call Pence down to provide said quorum, as the article suggests. If needed, he would beak any number of other rules of the Senate as well.

That said, I hope Koger's point holds up, and that we are indeed able to hold them off until next January - a very tall order.