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President Trump will stick to a previously released list of 25 potential Supreme Court nominees as he weighs who to nominate to succeed Justice Anthony Kennedy, who announced his retirement on Wednesday.
“It will be somebody from that list. They will come from that list of 25 people,” the president told reporters in the Oval Office during a meeting with his Portuguese counterpart.
Trump said Kennedy, 81, visited him at the White house “about a half hour” before the Portuguese president arrived for bilateral meetings. [Read More]
Cruz: Mike Lee best choice to fill Supreme Court vacancy (The Hill)
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Wednesday touted his Republican colleague Sen. Mike Lee (Utah) as the “best choice” to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement announcement.
“I think the single best choice President Trump could make to fill this vacancy is Sen. Mike Lee,” Cruz said on Fox News shortly after Kennedy’s announcement. “I think he would be extraordinary.” [Read More]
Utah Sen. Mike Lee would ‘absolutely’ be Trump’s Supreme Court pick (Washington Examiner)
Conservative Utah Sen. Mike Lee said Wednesday that he would accept a nomination to the Supreme Court if President-elect Trump wants him there.
“Absolutely I would,” he told Washington’s WMAL. “I would,” he eagerly told Larry O’Connor, host of the afternoon Larry O’Connor Show.
Earlier Wednesday, Trump told a news conference that he has neared the end of his process to pick a replacement for the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. He said he plans to announce his pick within two weeks of Inauguration Day, January 20. [Read More]
LIBERAL MELTDOWN OVER JUSTICE KENNEDY RETIREMENT (The Daily Caller)
Liberal activists and journalists are melting down over Justice Anthony Kennedy announcing his retirement from the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Kennedy, who has served as the court’s swing vote for decades, has now opened the door for President Donald Trump to finally give conservatives their long-desired court majority.
Progressives immediately reacted to Kennedy’s retirement with fear, anger, and sadness. [Read More]
Seven Mysterious Preludes to the FBI’s Trump-Russia Probe (Real Clear Investigations)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation formally opened its Trump investigation after Western intelligence assets and Clinton-affiliated political operatives repeatedly approached the Trump campaign and tried but failed to damage it through associations with Russia, a growing body of evidence suggests.
Before the FBI began investigating the Trump campaign in an operation code-named “Crossfire Hurricane,” there were at least seven different instances when campaign advisers were approached with Russia-related offers. Most of those contacts — including Donald Trump Jr.’s much-publicized meeting with a Russian lawyer and others in June 2016 — offered the prospect of information damaging to Donald Trump’s Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. [Read More]
The Virginia restaurant that refused to serve White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was hit by picketers Tuesday and police had to block off the bucolic downtown Lexington street and make one arrest.
The Red Hen restaurant was closed as normal Sunday and Monday, but several groups demonstrated against it around 5 p.m. Tuesday, its first scheduled opening since it became a national cause. But the restaurant did not open Tuesday evening.
According to video posted to Twitter by a Roanoke Times reporter, a few dozen people around the Red Hen looked on as one man yelled into a megaphone that “nations like America that forget God, they’re gonna end up in hell.” [Read More]
It’s Bernie’s party now (The Washington Times)
After Tuesday’s stunning primary results is now safe to say that the Democratic Party is the party of Bernie Sanders. In fact, Democrat voters and the Democratic Party’s leadership has gone so far from the vision and ideals of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, the founders of the Democratic Republicans which became today’s Democratic Party, that they really should now change their name to the Democratic Socialist Party.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a former campaign organizer for Sanders’ presidential campaign, shocked the party by pounding well-funded establishment figure Rep. Joe Crowley in New York. But the shock of that race has overshadowed the equally stunning victory of former NAACP President Ben Jealous for the Democrat’s nomination for governor in Maryland.
Jealous, a political novice, was an early supporter of Sanders in 2016 and ran against establishment figure Rushern Baker, the County Executive in Prince George’s County, a DC suburb. Jealous ran using Sanders‘ class warfare, socialist template defied the political class by outpacing all polling that showed Baker, a long-time elected official who had gained endorsements from most of the party’s establishment figures, with a solid lead throughout the primary campaign. [Read More]
‘Gosnell’ Feature Film to Finally Hit Theaters This October (Patheos)
After a lawsuit that delayed its initial theatrical deal, “Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer” is set to hit over 700 theaters on Friday, Oct. 12, through GVN Distributing.
Directed by actor Nick Searcy (“The Shape of Water,” “11.22.63,” “Justified”), the story — based on grand-jury testimony — stars Dean Cain as the lead detective investigating the case of Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell.
Michael Beach, Cyrina Fiallo and Sarah Jane Morris also star. Searcy directed from a screenplay by Andrew Klavan (credited for a teleplay), and Irish filmmakers Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney. [Read More]
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