Justice Anthony Kennedy retires - What will SCOTUS look like
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« on: June 27, 2018, 01:06:44 PM »
« edited: June 27, 2018, 07:30:16 PM by True Federalist »

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy retires effective July 31, 2018.

(While there are multiple threads on the USGD board on this, I am going to let this stay here with one important caveat.  NO POLITICS!  Only discussion about who might replace Kennedy and how that might shape future court decisions will be allowed in this thread. - True Federalist)
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« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2018, 01:09:12 PM »

Ugh. Of course right before the Dems take the Senate. Wouldn't change anything, Kennedy was effectively the 5th Conservative Justice, only flipping on a few cases. Now we have to anticipate Justice Bill Pryor.
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« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2018, 01:16:12 PM »

Any predictions for who his successor will be? I'm going to say Thomas Hardiman, who was one of the finalists last year for Scalia's seat.
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« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2018, 01:53:42 PM »

Retiring Judges still have to serve on Crt of Appeals, so he still will have some sway over appeallate jurisdiction.
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« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2018, 02:00:56 PM »

Retiring Judges still have to serve on Crt of Appeals, so he still will have some sway over appeallate jurisdiction.

Where is this written in the Constitution?
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« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2018, 02:08:20 PM »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States

It says, Chief justice Roberts assigned O'Connor and Souter to Appeals Crts
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« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2018, 03:24:23 PM »


If Justice Kennedy wants to hear cases in the Appeals Courts, he probably can. But if he just wants to retire and visit his kids and grandkids, he can do that, too. I don’t think anything requires former Supreme Court Justices - or any federal judge - to stay on the bench after retiring.
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« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2018, 09:38:33 AM »

I'm thinking its going to be Brett Kavanaugh.
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« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2018, 06:38:26 PM »

I predict that President Trump will name Judge Raymond Kethledge to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court.

This will keep the court with a conservative philosophy for some time to come.
  

 
 
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« Reply #9 on: July 07, 2018, 08:44:40 PM »

Judges interpret laws and states enforce laws. Many blue states will ignore them on abortion and affirmative action. It just makes it harder on immigrants to become citizens. 
It's not a big deal
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« Reply #10 on: July 07, 2018, 10:37:18 PM »

Judges interpret laws and states enforce laws. Many blue states will ignore them on abortion and affirmative action. It just makes it harder on immigrants to become citizens. 
It's not a big deal

If blue states ignore the court, Trump sends in troops al a Little Rock.
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« Reply #11 on: July 09, 2018, 08:16:35 PM »

I predict that President Trump will name Judge Raymond Kethledge to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court.

This will keep the court with a conservative philosophy for some time to come.
  

 
 


So much for that prediction.
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« Reply #12 on: July 12, 2018, 12:11:53 PM »



The Crt is a now gonna be a states rights Crt and remand everything back to states except immigration amnesty if a secular Congress pass it; and Senate cant get 60 votes on that bill.


Universities have already said they will ignore Crts on affirmative action. But, employers wont ignore them
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« Reply #13 on: July 14, 2018, 03:00:48 PM »

He's basically a 2nd Roberts.  Kavanaugh is very likely to be more conservative than Kennedy on criminal justice and abortion/gay rights/sex-related issues in general, but he's also likely to be less of an activist libertarian and less likely to overturn politically charged laws.  Based on commentary in his Anti-Injunction Act ruling on the ACA, he would very likely have joined Roberts' opinion in NFIB v. Sebelius as a 6th vote to uphold the individual mandate as a tax.
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