The POTUS SCOTUS candidates

 

Patriots, I have some thoughts on POTUS’S nominee to the SCOTUS. First, everyone on the President’s list seems to be an excellent nominee.

1.  I generally don’t want someone from the Ivy League, their law school graduates cannot be trusted to be true conservatives.

2.  I generally do not want someone who went to Notre Dame Law School. The reason being that Notre Dame has proven in recent years to be a very liberal institution. I am not opposed to a devout Roman Catholic nominee.

3.  I do not want someone from Columbia Law School because since the 1960s Columbia has proven to be launch pad for radicals, Marxists and leftists.

4.  Ideally, the nominee would be a member of the Federalist Society. The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, most frequently called the Federalist Society, is an organization of conservatives and libertarians that advocates for a textualist and originalist interpretation of the United States Constitution.

 The nominee should have no skeletons in her closet because if she does the Illuminati will blackmail and coerce when she gets on the SCOTUS, e.g. John Roberts.

1. Bridget Anne Shelton Bade. She is from a conservative western state. The western and southern states, in contemporary America, in my opinion, have proven to be far more conservative than the eastern and midwestern states.

Bridget Anne Shelton Bade is a jurist from Arizona. She is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

Born: October 8, 1965 (age 54 years), Phoenix, AZ

Education: Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University

She had nothing on file with Federalist Society.

2. Katherine Comerford Todd attended Harvard. I am very skeptical about Ivy Leaguers bing on the Supreme Court.

Kate Comerford Todd is the former senior vice president and chief counsel for the U.S. Chamber Litigation Center, the litigation arm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Todd has a broad range of government and private sector experience, with particular expertise in federal appellate practice and constitutional law.

Before joining the Chamber, Todd served in the White House as associate counsel to the president, advising the president and his staff on a wide range of legal and constitutional issues. She also liaised with other officials in the executive branch and consulted with members of Congress and their staff.

Prior to her service in the White House, Todd was a partner in the appellate, litigation, and communications practices of the firm Wiley, Rein & Fielding, in Washington, D.C. She represented businesses in federal and state litigation and regulatory matters and helped them develop and execute national, multi-forum legal strategies. Todd serves as a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States. She also teaches the law of federal courts at The George Washington University Law School, and taught constitutional law at Cornell University's Washington program.

During the 2000 Term of the Supreme Court of the United States, Todd served as a law clerk to Associate Justice Clarence Thomas. She also clerked for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

She is a former Notre Dame law professor who many believe would overrule Roe v. Wade if given the chance — making her a favorite of religious conservatives and causing Democrats to staunchly oppose her. She is a devout Catholic,

Todd graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was executive editor of the Harvard Law Review. She received her undergraduate degree in government, history, and international relations from Cornell University, graduating cum laude in history and with distinction in all subjects.

On the positive side she is a member of the Federalist Society, although she had nothing on file with Federalist Society.

Todd lives in Virginia with her husband, Gordon, and their four children.

3. Diane Schwerm Sykes

Diane Schwerm Sykes is the Chief United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit and former Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Sykes is considered to be a originalist jurist.

Born: December 23, 1957 (age 62 years), Milwaukee, WI

Spouse: Charlie Sykes (m. 1980–1999)

Education: Brown Deer Middle/High School, Northwestern University, Northwestern University Medill School, Law School

Diane Sykes had 82 items listed on the Federalist Society web site. The link is below.

https://fedsoc.org/search?term=Diane+Sykes

4. Barbara Lagoa is a jurist serving as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. Prior to becoming a federal judge, she was the first Hispanic woman to be appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida. She is likely to be an anti-communist since her parents fled from Cuba.

Born: November 2, 1967 (age 52 years), Miami, FL

Education: Columbia University, Florida International University, Columbia Law School

High-profile Democrats voting yea on her nomination included Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., also on the Judiciary Committee, and Sen Joe Manchin, D-W.V., a perpetual swing vote on judicial nominations.

While Lagoa looks good, I am concerned Feinstein likes her. I don't trust Feinstein at all.

Democratic pollster Fernand Amandi told Politico that if Trump chooses Lagoa it would be "a play for women, Hispanics and most importantly, Florida’s 29 Electoral votes," calling her "the conservative Cuban version of Sonia Sotomayor."

Lagoa had items listed on the Federalist Society web site. The link is below.

https://fedsoc.org/search?term=barbara+lagoa

5. Amy Vivian Coney Barrett

Amy Vivian Coney Barrett is ajurist, and academic who serves as a circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Barrett considers herself a public-meaning originalist; her judicial philosophy has been likened to that of her mentor and former boss, Antonin Scalia. She is a pro-life Roman Catholic.

Born: January 28, 1972 (age 48 years), New Orleans, LA

Nationality: American

Spouse: Jesse M. Barrett

Education: St. Mary's Dominican High School (1990), Rhodes College,Graduated first in her class at Notre Dame Law School

Barrett had no items listed on the Federalist Society web site.

6. Allison Jones Rushing

Wow, at age 38, she would be young for the SCOTUS. Allison Blair Jones Rushing is a jurist serving as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. She was nominated for the position by President Donald Trump in August 2018 and confirmed by the Senate in March 2019. 

Rushing's conservative bona-fides are seen as quite strong. She held three clerkships with three conservative judicial luminaries: Judge David Sentelle on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, a Reagan appointee who is now the presiding judge of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court; then-Judge Neil Gorsuch on the 10th Circut, who was later appointed by Trump to the Supreme Court; and Justice Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court.

In private practice, Rushing spent a lot of time on Supreme Court litigation, filing approximately 47 briefs with the tribunal, according to the Judiciary Committee questionnaire from her 2017 confirmation.

Democrats at the time slammed Rushing, with Vanita Gupta, the president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, saying that Rushing "has denounced marriage equality, opposed remedies for discriminatory lending practices, and rejected efforts to end housing discrimination against domestic and sexual violence survivors."

So we see Rushing has previously been slammed by the “swamp” in D.C.

Born: 1982 (age 38 years), Hendersonville, NC

Education: Duke University School of Law, Wake Forest University

Rushing had no items listed on the Federalist Society web site.

7. Joan Larsen

Joan Louise Larsen is a jurist serving as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. She previously was an Associate Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court from 2015 to 2017. 

Born: December 1968 (age 51 years), Waterloo, IA

Spouse: Adam Pritchard

Party: Republican Party

Education: Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Before her appointment to the federal bench, Judge Larsen served two terms as a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, where she was the court’s liaison to Michigan’s drug, sobriety, mental health and veteran’s courts.

Before becoming a judge, Judge Larsen was a faculty member at the University of Michigan Law School, where she was also Special Counsel to the Dean and received the L. Hart Wright Award for Excellence in Teaching. Judge Larsen's research and teaching interests included constitutional law, criminal procedure, statutory interpretation, and presidential power. Judge Larsen continues to assist the law school as the adviser to the Henry M. Campbell Moot Court Competition.

Judge Larsen began her legal career as a law clerk to the Hon. David B. Sentelle of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States. Following her clerkships, she joined the law firm of Sidley Austin, where she was a member of the Constitutional, Criminal, and Civil Litigation Section. She later served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the United States Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel.

Judge Larsen graduated first in her class from Northwestern University School of Law, where she served as articles editor of the Northwestern University Law Review and earned the John Paul Stevens Award for Academic Excellence. She received her B.A., with highest honors, from the University of Northern Iowa.

Larsen's confirmation hearing was held jointly with Barrett's –­­ meaning she was largely overshadowed –­­ but her nomination was still divisive.

"Justice Larsen is and will be a jurist who seeks to find the right answer, never simply one she prefers as a matter of policy," then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa said. "Colleagues on the court have praised her sharp legal analysis, her clear and crisp writing, and her work ethic."

Larsen had 50 items listed on the Federalist Society web site.

I will say this, President Trump seems to do his homework. They all seem to be excellent women and barristers. All I say is, please Mr, President, make sure you don't choose another John Roberts who is a conservative in name only. In other words, choose wisely.