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Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, has released a list of 11 potential Supreme Court justices he plans to vet to fill the seat of late Justice Antonin Scalia if he’s elected to the White House.

Trump’s picks include Steven Colloton of Iowa, Allison Eid of Colorado and Raymond Gruender of Missouri.

Also on the list are: Thomas Hardiman of Pennsylvania, Raymond Kethledge of Michigan, Joan Larsen of Michigan, Thomas Lee of Utah, William Pryor of Alabama, David Stras of Minnesota, Diane Sykes of Wisconsin and Don Willett of Texas. Trump had previously named Pryor and Sykes as examples of kind of justices he would choose.

The news comes as Trump is working to bring together a fractured Republican Party and earn the trust of skill-skeptical establishment Republicans who question his electability in the general election and conservatives in his party still weary of his commitment to their cause.

In a statement, Trump said the list “is representative of the kind of constitutional principles I value” and said that, as president, he would use it “as a guide to nominate our next United States Supreme Court Justices.”

His campaign stressed the list was compiled “first and foremost, based on constitutional principles, with input from highly respected conservatives and Republican Party leadership.

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So basically a bunch of Scalia 2.0s who will work to inhibit liberal progress at every step.

Actually, some of them make Scalia look like Ginsburg :deadbanana: 

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Lion Heart

William Pryor: would have let states jail LGBT people for having sex in their homes

In a 2003 legal brief arguing to uphold a Texas law criminalizing consensual LGBT sex, Pryor compared it to “polygamy, incest, pedophilia, prostitution, and adultery” and argued that states should be free to prosecute gay people as criminals. He said the rights of LGBT people as a group are not protected by the Constitution.

“This Court [the Supreme Court] has never recognized a fundamental right to engage in sexual activity outside of monogamous heterosexual marriage, let alone to engage in homosexual sodomy,” Pryor wrote. “Such a right would be antithetical to the ‘traditional relation of the family’ that is ‘as old and as fundamental as our entire civilization.”

He also said homosexuality was harmful and that Texans needed protection from it.

“Texas is hardly alone in concluding that homosexual sodomy may have severe physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual consequences, which do not necessarily attend heterosexual sodomy, and from which Texas’s citizens need to be protected.”

He also argued there was “no fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy just because it is done behind closed doors… Because homosexual sodomy has not historically been recognized in this country as a right — to the contrary, it has historically been recognized as a wrong — it is not a fundamental right.”

Lambda Legal also notes that Pryor cast a deciding vote that blocked Florida LGBT couples from adopting children in need of homes.

:saladga:  https://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/trump-scotus-pick-william-pryor-would-have-let-states-jail-lgbt-people-for-having-sex-in-their-homes/

 

 

Anytime someone tries to argue that Trump is "Pro LGBT" I will bring up Pryor's name. :) 

 

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LebaneseDude
6 minutes ago, Lion Heart said:

Anytime someone tries to argue that Trump is "Pro LGBT" I will bring up Pryor's name. :) 

He loves the gays clearly. He's very sorry that he has to **** them over. It'll be great though!

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Goosey
13 minutes ago, LebaneseDude said:

He loves the gays clearly. He's very sorry that he has to **** them over. It'll be great though!

We have the best shortlists. Is this the best shortlist or what? Don't we love our shortlist, folks?

"I am the world's greatest person that does not want to let people into the country."—US President Donald J. Trump
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Just now, Goosey said:

We have the best shortlists. Is this the best shortlist or what? Don't we love our shortlist, folks?

More like a shortbus.

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Luiz
11 minutes ago, LebaneseDude said:

More like a shortbus.

:deadbanana: 

I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
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Goosey
6 minutes ago, LebaneseDude said:

More like a shortbus.

Wrong.

Just like his fingers, Trump's bus is not so short.

It's an older model MCI. The tail lights look like an MCI-12, but the headlights look like an MCI-9. 

Either way, it's 40 feet long.

Donald's bus
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Standard MCI-12
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"I am the world's greatest person that does not want to let people into the country."—US President Donald J. Trump
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20 minutes ago, Goosey said:

Wrong.

Just like his fingers, Trump's bus is not so short.

It's an older model MCI. The tail lights look like an MCI-12, but the headlights look like an MCI-9. 

Either way, it's 40 feet long.

Donald's bus
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Standard MCI-12
1998MCIMC127-394.JPG

 

 

 

:air: 

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Spyro
3 hours ago, LebaneseDude said:

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Do me a favor and send this list to any BernieOrBust person who's voting for Trump.

Spyro the Dragon
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LebaneseDude
27 minutes ago, Spyro said:

Do me a favor and send this list to any BernieOrBust person who's voting for Trump.

Luckily all my friends so far who are/were Bernie supporters are going to vote for Hillary.

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