Supreme Court Justice Kennedy has announced his retirement, effective July 31st, giving Trump his second Supreme Court appointment. News sources everywhere are frantically covering his campaign list of 25 SCOTUS candidates, all of whom are of course decidedly “conservative.” But this week’s two court decisions upholding his travel ban and protecting discrimination against the LGBT community will have emboldened him in his simple-minded way, and he’ll want to please his “base.” What better way to do that than nominate “Judge” Jeanine Pirro, one of his most consistent and vitriolic supporters from Fox News? And Trump has made it clear that he values “loyalty” above everything else, meaning fealty to him. How the hell else did we end up with Jeff Sessions, Scott Pruitt, Ben Carson, Betsy DeVos, Ryan Zinke, Kellyanne Conway, Stephen Miller, Sarah Sanders and the rest of the utterly immoral, incompetent administration now in place?
This will have repercussions for decades to come – Trump will move civil rights and human dignity back to the 19th century.