{"id":44345,"date":"2020-09-10T18:51:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T18:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44345"},"modified":"2020-09-10T18:51:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T18:51:49","slug":"potus-makes-strange-scotus-ploy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44345","title":{"rendered":"POTUS makes strange SCOTUS ploy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23SCOTUS%20%23POTUS%20%23abortion&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cruzted_trumpdonald_030316getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32200\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cruzted_trumpdonald_030316getty-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cruzted_trumpdonald_030316getty-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cruzted_trumpdonald_030316getty.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have been intrigued by Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to roll out the names of possible U.S. Supreme Court appointments should he win a second term as president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I come down to this notion: Trump is playing with fire by throwing out names while he is in the midst of a campaign that might rile the dickens out groups of voters who detest the philosophies of the prospective nominees.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has gotten the most buzz out of the list of 20 names tossed out there by Trump. You know this guy, whom I have labeled the Cruz Missile owing to his rather mercurial political trajectory.<\/p>\n<p>He actually wants to be elected <em>president<\/em> one day, which to my way of thinking suggests he wouldn&#8217;t want to end up on the high court.<\/p>\n<p>But back to the point. Trump&#8217;s tactic here puts his re-election effort in some jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>All of the names he has floated are, for example, likely to be avidly anti-reproductive rights advocates. They all would oppose a woman&#8217;s right to end a pregnancy. How do you suppose that&#8217;s going to play with suburban women, who already are tilting strongly away from Trump and toward the candidacy of Joseph Biden?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know Trump has his support base that thinks the tactic is working out just fine. I just consider it a huge gamble at this juncture of a campaign that by all objective measure isn&#8217;t going well.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose, therefore, I shouldn&#8217;t spend too much time worrying about any of this.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; I won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23SCOTUS%20%23POTUS%20%23abortion&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com I have been intrigued by Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to roll out the names of possible U.S. Supreme Court appointments should he win a second term as president of the United States. I guess I come down to this notion: Trump is playing with fire by throwing out names while he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44345\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">POTUS makes strange SCOTUS ploy<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[122,1424,3688,6363,4537],"class_list":["post-44345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-abortion","tag-donald-trump","tag-potus","tag-scotus","tag-ted-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44345","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=44345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44346,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44345\/revisions\/44346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}