Would Justice Kennedy prefer Trump or Pence replace him?
When those rumors popped up a couple of weeks ago about Justice Kennedy considering retirement, it made me wonder what might be better. Do we really want him deciding based on the possible impeachment of Trump?
For Pence to get to name a Justice would be his fulfillment of the wet dream his "Mother" (the term he uses when referring to his Stepford wife) could never match.
We know that the Evangelical Dominionist is mainly concerned with social issues.
He wants to roll back to abortion being murder, marriage only a man and a woman, prayer in schools, no separation of church and state, yadda yadda yadda, praise heyZeus, amen.
Kennedy knows this. And, I doubt he likes the idea of Pence replacing him with a total social neandrathal. I think Kennedy is more of the give it all to the corporations kind of republican than the evangelical type. Of course, with Gorsuch we got both and more. I'm afraid he will be Scalia on steroids only with a prettier smile and gentler demeanor.
So, maybe, just maybe , Kennedy will just stick around just to see what's going to happen with Muellers report and/or the midterms.
I think that Trump has already fulfilled his deal with The Heritage Foundation types with Gorsuch. With the next vacancy, Trump might want to put his own stamp on the court. Hell, he might even let it be a family decision. What if the supposedly social liberal Ivanka and Jared convinced Donald to pick his sister. She is a judge and supposedly a fairly liberal one. Or, he could just throw that threat out there to get Bannon and his bunch of isolationist nutjobs all on edge. We know how Trump loves to stir the pot even in his own staff.
Anyway, for us, is either Trump or Pence picking the next Justice just a matter of picking a poison. Or is one really better than the other.?
