Why these primary candidates are both better than the GOP candidates.

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Key conservatives pushing Mike Lee for the Supreme Court

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) chairs a hearing of the Judiciary Committee's Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Subcommittee last month.

THE BIG IDEA:

-- Prominent conservatives are lobbying Donald Trump to say that he will nominate Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) to the Supreme Court if he’s elected president.

And Trump’s main rival for the nomination, Ted Cruz, has already said he’d consider his best friend in the Senate for the seat that opened with Antonin Scalia’s death.

As President Obama travels to the University of Chicago this afternoon to deliver a speech calling for Merrick Garland’s confirmation, Senate Republican leaders are expressing confidence they can hold firm through the November election in refusing to grant him even a hearing. If Hillary Clinton wins in November, there will be pressure to quickly confirm Garland so that she could not appoint someone who is younger and more liberal. If she loses, then the next Republican president will get to nominate someone else.

While the rest of the mainstream media is preoccupied with the Garland battle, conservative luminaries are increasingly looking ahead to next year and quietly touting Lee as a potential nominee. Republican senators like this idea, and Democrats are figuring out how they’d respond.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/04/07/daily-202-key-conservatives-pushing-mike-lee-for-the-supreme-court/5705472c981b92a22ddc6367/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_evening

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1. SS, child labor laws, FDA, disaster programs UNCONSTITUTIONAL?

Violence Against Women Act, Medicare, Medicaid all unconstitutional?

We should give up our right to elect our senators to state legislators?

What else? Compulsory education for our children as unconstitutional and taxation to pay for it are on the hit lists of some major players, so probably Senator Lee just hasn't gotten around to mentioning those.

What else? Lee's name isn't just being batted around by Trump and Cruz. He's reportedly on the Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation lists of recommendations for SCOTUS.

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2. The GOP is betting that their candidate will beat either Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton.

The GOP is waiting to defeat the Democratic presidential candidate to put the GOP's judge on the Supreme Court.