By Joe Milardo
A lot of people have brought up the fact
that they won't vote for Trump if he's the eventual nominee. I just want to put
something in perspective.
Justice Scalia's seat is vacant. Ginsberg
is 82 years old, Kennedy is 79, Breyer is 77, and Thomas is 67. Nowadays, the
data shows that the average age of a Supreme Court retirement or death occurs
after 75.
These are 5 vacancies that will likely
come up over the next 4-8 years. The next President will have the power to
potentially create a 7-2 Supreme Court skewed in their ideology.
Think about that... 7-2. If the next
President appoints 5 young justices, it will guarantee control of the Supreme
Court for an entire generation. And 7-2 decisions will hold up much more over
time than 5-4 decisions which are seemed to be lacking in mandate.
Hillary has made it clear she will use the
Supreme Court to go after the 2nd Amendment. She has literally said that the
Supreme Court was wrong in its Heller decision stating that the Court should
overturn and remove the individual right to keep and bear arms. Period.
Everyone saying that they won't vote for
one candidate or the other if they are the GOP nominee, please realize this. If
Hillary Clinton wins and gets to make these appointments, you likely will never
see another Conservative victory at the Supreme Court level for the rest of
your life.
Ever.
Joe Milardo is a local attorney and member of the Middletown Republican Town Committee
