Current Events > Ramaswamy gives his possible SCJ candidates and, oof

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/vivek-ramaswamy-2024-poll-supreme-court-b2376694.html

Biotech entrepreneur and Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy on Monday released a list of 16 people he'd nominate to the U.S. Supreme Court or federal appellate courts if he becomes president, making him the first in the party's field to itemize his possible top judicial appointments.

Ramaswamy's list includes Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah as possible nominees for the nation's top court, as well as elevating federal judges who struck down President Joe Biden's airplane mask mandate and the FDA's two-decade-long approval of the abortion pill.

Ramaswamy's own list includes prominent conservative legal names. He said he'd only nominate Cruz or Lee if it wouldn't change the balance of the U.S. Senate, which Democrats currently control by a two-vote margin. Another prominent name on the list for the high court is Paul Clement, who served as former President George W. Bush's solicitor general.

Ramaswamy also proposes elevating several district court judges to the nation's appellate courts. He cites Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an Amarillo-based federal judge whose April ruling against the abortion pill was full of language of anti-abortion rights activists and was swiftly put on hold by appellate judges and then the Supreme Court.

The list also includes Kathryn Mizelle, who Trump nominated at age 38 to a judgeship in Florida and who struck down Biden's air travel mask mandate last year.

An additional prominent conservative judge who makes Ramaswamy's Supreme Court list is James Ho, another Trump nominee to a position on the Texas-based Fifth Circuit Court of appeals whose rulings are full of conservative political rhetoric. Ramaswamy said Ho first came to his attention because the judge quoted his own book, Woke, Inc., in one of his rulings.

It's a good thing this guy will never get anywhere near the presidency, I imagine NightmareMD has a lot of free time to...enjoy himself over this news.

This guy keeps being a petty dipshit

Ramaswamy's list includes Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah as possible nominees for the nation's top court, as well as elevating federal judges who struck down President Joe Biden's airplane mask mandate and the FDA's two-decade-long approval of the abortion pill.

Is he genuinely this stupid or is he making a cynical attempt to woe the worst of the right?

darkace77450 posted...

Is he genuinely this stupid or is he making a cynical attempt to woe the worst of the right?

I don't think he's trying to "woe the worst of the right", he specifically won't criticize Trump for anything, especially for judicial picks.

I think he's trying to establish himself as a candidate separate from the rest, which I'll give him that he's not as cookie-cutter as the majority of Trump's "opposition", however he still falls into the lane of just being a right-wing extremist, which at times means going even further than Trump.

Starks posted...

This guy keeps being a petty dipshit

So your typical republican politician then.