The GOP's SCOTUS litmus test
by digby
Well, their presidential front runner's anyway:
Donald Trump on Wednesday fired back at Hillary Clinton, remarking that he would likely nominate Supreme Court justices who “would look very seriously at her email disaster.”
The former secretary of state has been under fire over her use of a private email server during her time at the State Department and called out the Republican front-runner in a speech Monday highlighting the impact the Supreme Court should have on this election. Clinton invoked Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. and asked Wisconsin voters what kind of justice a President Trump would nominate.
“Well, I’d probably appoint people that would look very seriously at her email disaster because it’s a criminal activity, and I would appoint people that would look very seriously at that to start off with,” Trump said in a phone interview with ABC's “Good Morning America.” “What she’s getting away with is absolutely murder. You talk about a case — now that’s a real case.”
The New York billionaire added, “If she’s able to get away with that, you can get away with anything.”
Not knowing how the judicial branch of the government works isn't quite as alarming as not knowing how the world's nuclear umbrella works but it's not good. This is the man many Republicans think should nominate the next Supreme Court justice.
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