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Trump’s Choice


President Trump has said that is going to nominate a woman to be the next Supreme Court Justice. At this point there appears to be two front runners and two in the second tier. The two front runners are Amy Coney Barrett and Barbara Lagos.

In the second tier there is Joan Larsen and Allison Rushing.

From the WSJ:

Judge Amy Coney Barrett, 48 years old, was nominated by Mr. Trump to the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in May 2017 and confirmed by the Senate that October in a 55-43 vote. A graduate of Notre Dame Law School, Judge Barrett clerked from 1998 to 1999 for Justice Antonin Scalia, then practiced law at a Washington, D.C., law firm before returning in 2002 to Notre Dame as a professor of constitutional law.

A Trump appointee, Judge Barbara Lagoa, 52 years old, has served on the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals since December, after being confirmed by the Senate in a mostly bipartisan 80-15 vote. A Cuban-American and Miami native, Judge Lagoa served briefly on the Florida Supreme Court as the first Hispanic woman on the state’s high court. She also spent more than a dozen years as an intermediate appellate judge in Florida before being elevated by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. From 2003 to 2006, she worked as an assistant U.S. attorney in Miami.

From my perspective President Trump certainly likes all of these picks, but in the month before the election which of the top two picks could possibly enhance his prospects in November? The Dems are really po-ed that President Trump will undoubtedly replace their beloved liberal RBG with a conservative Justice. Based on the expected nasty confrontation that will occur during these confirmation hearings, my question is “who potentially will the Dems piss-off more?”

Let me ‘splain:

The nasty behavior of many Democratic senators during the Kavanaugh hearing more than likely influenced the 2018 midterm Senate elections. Now rationally one can also expect that the behavior of the Dems during the upcoming confirmation hearings will also be outlandish, so my question is, “which group will the Dems potentially offend more.”

Amy Coney Barrett is a fervent Catholic, and I think that it is reasonable to expect that her religious faith will be attacked. Likewise Barbara Lagos is Hispanic, more precisely Cuban American. Although I am not exactly sure how, the Dem senators will undoubtedly attack her also.

So from the perspective of the American voter, given that both of the front runners will be insulted, the insults to which candidate would be more advantageous for the President’s re-election? In other words would it be better for him if the Dems attack a Catholic or a Hispanic? Both of these groups constitute significant voter blocs – the Catholics nationally and the Hispanics, both nationally, and especially in the battleground state of Florida.

Yes! Yes! This SCOTUS pick should be best female candidate . . . however if the two top tier candidates are neck-and-neck, will the President allow the upcoming Dem insults influence his choice? (Might it be possible that the Dems will try to foil this strategy, and will insult neither? . . . “No!”)

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