This election isn’t just a fight for the heart and soul of the nation for the next four years.
It’s a battle that could reshape the law in America forever.
The next president has a Supreme Court vacancy to fill right out of the gate, choosing a replacement for conservative icon Antonin Scalia, who died suddenly in February.
That single vacancy will tip the balance of power, with a liberal giving the left a 5-4 majority, while a conservative judge will mean the court will remain mostly conservative, with Reagan appointee Anthony Kennedy often the swing vote.
“An ideological shift in the Court’s membership will alter constitutional law on our most vital issues, affirmative action, abortion rights, immigration, health care, and regulation of corporate money in political elections… just to name a few,” wrote Laura E. Little on Constitution Daily.
But this fight is about more than one vote, because a Clinton presidency could give the left wing the ultimate weapon: A 7-2 liberal super-majority on the Supreme Court that could extend her legacy for decades by establishing over 30 years of legal precedents that experts say are all but impossible to get rid of.
It’s not very far fetched. Consider that the average retirement age for Supreme Court justices is 78, according to The Washington Post.
Kennedy turns 80 this summer, already putting him two years past that age, and two liberal judges are right up there with him: Stephen G. Breyer (who turns 78 this summer) and Ruth Bader Ginsburg (83).
Even if they don’t retire immediately after the election, at those advanced ages the Court won’t exactly stock up on robes in their sizes.
If Clinton wins the presidency, she could end up replacing all four — a clean sweep that would give the Supreme Court four young liberals who would serve for decades, joining the two liberal justices already appointed by President Barack Obama.
An analysis by The Washington Examiner finds that a two-term Clinton presidency could give the Supreme Court a liberal super-majority that could last until 2050, especially if she appoints younger judges.
“That is not an unreasonable prediction,” Leonard Leo, executive vice president of the Federalist Society, told The Examiner. “I think you are looking at two clear seats that would switch parties: Scalia and Kennedy. That puts the number of Democrats to six if you include a Ginsburg replacement, (Elena) Kagan, (Sonia) Sotomayor, Breyer or his replacement.”
This analysis was done before the swirling rumors of Clarence Thomas mulling retirement. While his wife has denied those rumors, his retirement would give Clinton a fifth appointment… and the Supreme Court would have a 7-2 liberal super-majority, with Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts serving as the only conservatives.
Donald Trump has helped to ease conservative fears over the court by taking the unusual step of announcing in advance the judges he would choose from to fill vacancies, and the list is full of proven conservatives.
That gives Americans two things to vote for this November: a new president to serve the next four years… and what kind of Supreme Court they want for decades to come.
— The Horn editorial team
And she can’t even control her emotions let alone her husband and we should think be good at anything else other than being the “Best Wicked Witch of the East”.
H-BOMB Clinton and the entire CLINTON CRIME SYNDICATE need to be in PRISON….
If this thought doesn’t scare the hell out of you what will? STOP going after Trump for every little thing he says. Vote for keeping the Supreme Court as it mostly is. Vote for Trump to protect your grandchildren’s children……THINK people! Hillary will ruin our country……THINK!
omg I sooooo agree, I’m freaking out, and am trying to figure out how to get this message to EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN. The people voting for Hillary have NO IDEA what she is really about, what she has done, what her plan is, and how incredibly dangerous she is. How the hell do we get the word out and get through to people. The only thing I can do is vote for Trump, which kills me.
DNC is doing everything (including election fraud) to get their way. Everyone NEEDS TO RECORD THEMSELVES when they vote. Its rigged, and they will do to Trump, the same thing they did to Bernie. They are also trying to sneak the TPP through!!! and people do NOT know!!! This fits with the judges in this story.
Hillery who doesn’t know the words to the song,” JESUS LOVES ME ” AND DOESN’T HAVE A TALKING BIBLE,RIGHT??? That indicates that she must be a CLOSET MUSLIM whose teachings are clearly VIOLENT ACTIONS like have been shown here at a TRUMP RALLY since her LIES haven’t had the effect she had hoped for,RIGHT,???Hillery makes the [ WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST] from the story, [ THE WIZARD OF OZ ] Look like a Sunday School Teacher??? Anyone who believes HER LIES would hand over their wallets to the first person who offered to sell them the Brooklyn Bridge, the Washington Monument, or Mount Rushmore??? G ot IT??? Something for Nothing??? Yeah, RIGHT??? LIKE THE MANSION SHE LIVES IN FOR FREE at the expense of New York taxpayers and gets paid rent on the guest house provided for the Secret Service assigned to protect her??? Or did you ALL, FORGET THAT ??? She has been teaching Obama since he took office 7 years ago,RIGHT??? What else could you expect???
I don’t know those words either (the Jesus song) and sure as hell am no Muslim nor a Christian either. I happen to have volunteered for both my combat tours- Korea and Vietnam. I flew 110 combat missions out of Chu Lai as a Marine Close Air Support pilot, mostly cover for beleaguered Marines and Airborne as a F4 Phantom Marine pilot. I put my Law School enrollment off for a year to do so and could have gotten out as so many of our Christian pilots were so doing. Yah- don’t think I will bother to learn the words to that song. I am a Sioux Indian. We believe in Creator, a Benevolent One and not a 3 in 1 or a 1 in 3, Whatever. No Devils or Satans Either or all that Superstitious Bull Shit. President Jefferson thought the same as we do- about that 3 in 1 Man created and Invented.
The Hilda-Witch needs to be put back in the sulfur pit she crawled out of.
Just Keep these Kinds of Articles Coming..And FOR Certain.. Hellory Will be Further Down THE Line than she already IS..in THE Citizens` estimation of HER ..worth ! All She REALLY Needs At this POINT Is for Lynch TO Refuse to Recuse herself…
” AND Think Her Staying In There Will HELP Hellory !! THAT Meeting With OLE Bill REALLY Put The Finishing Touches ON Hellory !! ONE MORE Big BILL_Boo_BOO !! Boo-Hoo !! He Should HAVE Stayed At home ,,and continued letting Hellory WEAR the Pants !! (( I`d like to be a fly on The WALL..When Hellory Latches INTO Bill For THAT ! )
if people vote for Hillary they are Anti-American period for she is a Criminal and a lier too and should be in jail a long time ago too
She would pack the Supreme Court with political hacks in robes that would vote her way.
It’s pretty clear that Scalia was murdered. Now it appears that Clarence Thomas may be stepping down in fear. Was he threatened?
It now appears that the Memo that Clarence Thomas was going to Retire was a HOAZ….Probably set in motion by H-BOMB Clinton….they entire CRIMINAL D****RAT Party Machine….George Soros and all the rest of the MARXIST COMMUNISTS….
This election is vital for the way this country and the world will go. A Clinton presidency would change the Supreme Court and the way we live in America. Gun control, destroying our Second Amendment would be number one on her list, along with welcoming illegal immigration, and so many more vital issues for our country. Donald Trump would choose proven conservatives to fill our Supreme Court, he will fight to uphold our laws. He believes in the Constitution and upholding its rules. This November we are voting for the very existence of our way of live in America. Please we cannot afford to lose all that is dear to us.
WHY DO WE LET A KILLER OF 47 PEOPLE FROM WHITEWATER LIVE ?????? THEY WERE WITNESSES TO TESTIFY AGAINST THE CLINTONS..THEY ALL DIED WITH A BULLET IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD…BUY SINCE THEY R CLINTONS THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH MURDER…BULLSHIT !!!! HANG THEM HIGH WITH GAY OBAMA AND HIS TRANNY TOO !!!!
I WOULDNT TRUST HER WITH MY CATS LITTER BOX..BUT SINCE SHE IS A CLINTON SHE CAN DO WHAT SHE PLEASES…BI HILLERY AND GAY OBAMA WANT TO WIPE US OUT..THATS WHY THEY WANT TO BAN US FROM GETTING GUNS..THUS WAY THEIR ISIS FRIENDS CAN TAKE US DOWN EASIER….WELL SURPRISE SURPRISE !! WE R ARMED TO THE TEETH…ENOUGH AMMO TO WIPE OUT OVER 500M FROM ISIS…THEIR PLAN WILL BACKFIRE..WE ALREADY DUMPED A FEW IN THE RIVER…THEY WILL B A SHARK DINNER WHEN THEY HIT THE RIO GRANDE….
The thing that I will never understand about millions of Americans is they don’t use their brain before they decide whom to vote. They use their ignorance and lack of education when selecting their candidates. They listen to media who are very biased , who don’t always tell the public the truth. The weapon for the truth is Research , learn about the candidates and decide.
This is the result of the leftist education program. They want American to become like the majority of Muslims. Ignorant and UN-educated. Leave it to the elite. They know better (how to screw U).
Isn’t THAT what the Bush’s and Romney’s families want so desperately?
This election is scary. We have two polarizing candidates and the likelihood that at the end of their term a majority of the justices on the Supreme Court will be their picks.
At some point people are going to get fed up with activist judges. At some point the people will rise up in large enough numbers to demand that our government return to its Constitutional foundation or states may begin to leave the union. We as a nation are in deep trouble if Hillary Clinton is allowed to appoint any judge. This woman has no integrity. She is the last person that needs to be picking judges.
Donald Trump is a narcissistic loose cannon. If he can put competent judges on the Supreme Court maybe we can hold on and survive his term in office. It’s a shame that America has got in such a dire shape that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the best we can do for leaders.
Vote for Donald Trump in November. If you don’t want Donald Trump, then vote Gary Johnson Libertarian he is Conservative or Jill Stein of the Green Party. But by all ways, means, use common sense-DO NOT VOTE FOR HITLERY KILLERY ROTTON AYATOLLAH KHOEMENI CLINTON, she’s the very worst one running for Figurehead on the Clinton owned Demoncratic party. DONALD TRUMP has my vote in November. Time to clean house and
Washington DC.
If you vote for anyone other than Trump you are voting for Hillary, That’s what the Dems want is to split our republican party with the help of Romney and his coconspiritors!!! Vote only for Trump if you want to save our way of living in America!!! Hillary should be in prison with Obama both are liars and tritors to our Country!!! If we did what she did we would be in jail so fast our heads would spin!! She has gotten away with murder for so many years her and her Horrible husband!!! She doesnot represent me as a woman NO WAY!!!!
If you want to GET BACK OUR COUNTRY the way it used to be; small businesses thriving, capitalistic ventures, and a NON-
SOCIALISTIC government, then wise up folks-Trump is our man for prez! He WILL do what he says, starting with the famous
wall the Mexicans will help build thru trade agreements! We have got to get back to all the tenets of the CONSTITUTION, that
have been taken away by Obama and will continue with that witch Hillary-Benghazi, her e-mail lies, her foundation that is only
a laundering of money (supposedly for causes? NOT) goes right into her friends who need it and her “slick” joker of a hubby-
slick Willy….Their whole concept of socialism; whereby the gov’t owns you, has NEVER EVER WORKED in any regime-it’s
been proven, so smarten up in NOV. and bring in Trump, who will surround himself with the best minds for all that the prez
stands for-foreign policy, biggest problem, the ECONOMY, and immigration, so we can live as Americans once again!!!!!!!!!!!!
If elected.
What a horrible thought!
You Right Wing Excess Nutts had better vent your desperation on your GOP political Leaders first before you go after Hillary. You are the ones who are so GD hopelessly blinded by The Bushes and their flock. GD ! Trump took the Teflon off these destructive Creeps and not one damn previous post on this page goes after them and the GOP Congress who now are scheming to block Trump and won’t show at the GOP Convention. Talk about stupid – everyone posting anti- Hillary on this page instead of the Manipulators that got DT understandably pissed off enough to run SUCCESSFULLY against them.