It's happening!!!!!

[Silentweapon338]

Mergie, you said it yesterday about lady Ginsberg.

Oh, my would you detractors finally give the man some credit it if loads the court up with good guys?

http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/89ae...ef40a97014007e

Big cases, retirement rumors as Supreme Court nears finish


WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court enters its final week of work before a long summer hiatus with action expected on the Trump administration's travel ban and a decision due in a separation of church and state case that arises from a Missouri church playground.
The biggest news of all, though, would be if Justice Anthony Kennedy were to use the court's last public session on Monday to announce his retirement.
To be sure, Kennedy has given no public sign that he will retire this year and give President Donald Trump his second high court pick in the first months of his administration. Kennedy's departure would allow conservatives to take firm control of the court.
But Kennedy turns 81 next month and has been on the court for nearly 30 years. Several of his former law clerks have said they think he is contemplating stepping down in the next year or so. Kennedy and his clerks were gathering over the weekend for a reunion that was pushed up a year and helped spark talk he might be leaving the court.
"Soon we'll know if rumors of Kennedy's retirement are accurate," one former Kennedy clerk, George Washington University law professor Orin Kerr, said on Twitter Friday.
When the justices take the bench Monday, they are expected to decide the case of Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Missouri, which was excluded from a state grant program to pay for soft surfaces on playgrounds run by not-for-profit groups. The case is being closely watched by advocates of school vouchers, who hope the court will make it easier to use state money to pay for private, religious schooling in states that now prohibit it.
Missouri has since changed its policy under Republican Gov. Eric Greitens so that churches may now apply for the money.
Also expected in the next few days, though there's no deadline by which the court must decide, is a ruling on whether to allow the administration to immediately enforce a 90-day ban on visitors from six mostly Muslim countries.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, Trump's first Supreme Court nominee, could play a pivotal role in both the travel ban and church playground cases.
In all, six cases that were argued between November and April remain undecided. Three of those, all involving immigrants or foreigners, were heard by an eight-justice court, before Gorsuch joined the bench in April.
If the eight justices are evenly divided, those cases could be argued a second time in the fall, with Gorsuch available to provide the tie-breaking vote.

[Mergie Master]

It had to happen soon. Otherwise they would have to prop her up a corpse like "Weekend at Bernie's".

So it's Kennedy. Dang he's younger than Ginsburg. Looks like he's in better health too.

[Palmetto Bug]

Thank God we don't have Hillary picking the next batch of justices! If Trump does nothing else the rest of his term(s), his choice of justices will make it worth all the tweets and drama.

I think the next most important difference he can make is tax reform. Politicians use our taxes to buy votes. A simpler system with no, or extremely few, credits or exclusions will take away a lot of the illegitimate power Congress has carved out.

I doubt it could get through but I'd like to see Trump push the idea of eliminating capital gains taxes for stocks of US owned and controlled companies. The economy would utterly explode, private investment would soar and companies from all over the world would be moving here.

Capital gains on stocks is double dipping by the government. When you buy a stock, you are essentially buying a portion of a company. That company gets taxed on everything it does then you get taxed again on any profit that is shared and value that is increased, all at no rick to the government. And to the folks that would say "it's a tax break for the wealthy and Wall St fat cats", everyone who has a 401K or mutual fund is part of Wall St. Most of us have our retirement accounts vested at least partially in the market.

Inheritance taxes are immoral too. They are directly punitive to strong families. Wealth is best built over generations. Inheritance taxes take money from strong families and redistribute it to broken ones.

If Trump replaces Kennedy and Ginsburg with Conservative justices, our threatened Constitution has a chance of surviving.

[Fish]

Trump will have an opportunity to replace two leftist hacks in the immediate future. My hopes are that he chooses wisely and that chuck schumer's head explodes.

[Saltydog235]

Kennedy has always been in the middle on issues. Trump can swing the court by going strong conservative. It'd be nice if he can also replace Ginsburg and Breyer. That would tip the court for a while to come.