{"id":25469,"date":"2017-10-16T04:56:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T04:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25469"},"modified":"2017-10-16T04:56:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T04:56:49","slug":"court-brings-cause-for-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25469","title":{"rendered":"Court brings cause for concern"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/AAtxJFe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25470\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/AAtxJFe-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/AAtxJFe-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/AAtxJFe.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, brother.<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump is predicting he could get to fill as many as four seats on the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>How does that grab you? I&#8217;ll tell you the unvarnished truth: It scares the ever-loving bejabbers out of me.<\/p>\n<p>The president already has picked Justice Neil Gorsuch for the highest court in the land; he replaced another conservative, Antonin Scalia, who died suddenly a year ago in Texas. Justice Anthony Kennedy is reportedly considering retirement. Who&#8217;s next? Might it be Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Try this one on for size: Justice Sonya Sotomayor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-is-reportedly-talking-about-supreme-court-justices-health-issues-privately-predicting-hell-be-able-to-appoint-4\/ar-AAtxJFo?li=BBnb7Kz\">Trump could swing court balance<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s four of them. Kennedy is considered a &#8220;swing vote&#8221; on the court; Ginsburg and Sotomayor are part of the so-called &#8220;liberal wing.&#8221; Ginsburg&#8217;s health reportedly has been getting more frail over the years. Sotomayor, one of the court&#8217;s younger members, suffers from Type 1 diabetes, which could inhibit her ability to continue.<\/p>\n<p>What might occur? Trump will get to appoint justices who&#8217;ll swing the court so far to the right that it could scare a whole lot more Americans than just yours truly.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I&#8217;m going to send good-health vibes to Justices Kennedy, Ginsburg and Sotomayor. We need them on the highest court in the land to maintain some semblance of balance and reason.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, brother. Donald J. Trump is predicting he could get to fill as many as four seats on the U.S. Supreme Court. How does that grab you? I&#8217;ll tell you the unvarnished truth: It scares the ever-loving bejabbers out of me. The president already has picked Justice Neil Gorsuch for the highest court in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25469\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Court brings cause for concern<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[400,1424,4056,5053],"class_list":["post-25469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-anthony-kennedy","tag-donald-trump","tag-ruth-bader-ginsburg","tag-us-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25471,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25469\/revisions\/25471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}