President Donald Trump reacted to news that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring in real time on Wednesday, telling reporters that the search for a new justice will begin “immediately.”
“Hopefully we’re going to pick somebody who will be just as outstanding,” he said, referencing Kennedy.
Trump thanked Kennedy for his years of service and said he is a man of “tremendous vision” and “tremendous heart.”
“So I just want to thank Justice Kennedy for the years of tremendous service,” he said. “He is a very spectacular man. Really is a spectacular man. And I know that he will be around hopefully for a long time to advise and I believe he will be teaching and doing other things. So thank you to Justice Kennedy.”
He told reporters that his pick will come from an existing list of 25 “highly educated, highly intelligent, hopefully tremendous” conservative judges that he’s been referencing since the early days of his campaign.
Kennedy announced his retirement Wednesday afternoon, effective at the end of July.
President Trump reaction to Justice Anthony Kennedy retirement: "He's been a great Justice of the Supreme Court." #SCOTUS pic.twitter.com/oFJ7TJ31Jn
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Aw f***. They’re going to do it before the midterms.
We are so fucked…
I guess on the bright side this should ramp up Democratic motivation even higher for the midterms.
Tough to see Roe and Obergefell go, though.
If conservatives don’t like anything Congress or Executive branch does for the next generation, they have an automatic veto. This is so fucking wrong
Give SCOTUS a few years. Soon enough it’ll be gays back in the closet, prayer back in the schools, abortion illegal, school kids taught the planet is 6000 years old and evolution taught as science is the work of the devil, redlined real estate lending, the end of affirmative action hiring and education standards, smog in the cities, etc. The GOP is going to take us back to 1950 or kill us all trying.