Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel On The Supreme Court, Sources Say

[brooklynite]

Source: Huffington Post

Donald Trump has made it clear he will nominate Peter Thiel to the Supreme Court if he wins the presidency, Thiel has told friends, according to a source close to the PayPal co-founder.

Trump “deeply loves Peter Thiel,” and people in the real estate mogul’s inner circle are talking about Thiel as a Supreme Court nominee, a separate source close to Trump told The Huffington Post. That source, who has not spoken to Trump directly about Thiel being nominated to the Court, cautioned that Trump’s offers often fail to materialize in real life.

It’s not clear whether Trump has indeed offered to nominate Thiel ― only that Thiel has said Trump would nominate him and that Trump’s team has discussed Thiel as a possible nominee. Both sources requested anonymity, given that Trump and Thiel have each demonstrated a willingness to seek revenge against parties they feel have wronged them. In Thiel’s case, he secretly financed lawsuits against Gawker.com with the intention of destroying the publication. He succeeded, and his role in the assault was only revealed in the final stages.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-peter-thiel-supreme-court_us_57d80d57e4b09d7a687f9b03

[bucolic_frolic]

1. My God the world is ending

Beyond unbelievable, incomprehensible

Stack the Supreme Court with Right Wing Morons

It's a line from National Lampoon, Watergate Era I think

[DonCoquixote]

2. OMG

get someone who has said Democracy cannot work, and who blames the failure of democracy on giving women the right to vote. O GAWD

[Funtatlaguy]

3. Isn't Thiel a Log Cabin Republican?

Would the social issues wing of the repug party go insane if he nominated a gay man?

[BlueEye]

6. Yes he is.

God forbid if Trump is elected, I think the interaction between his White House and Senate Republicans (especially the very conservative "Never Trump" crowd) would be a comedy/horror show of epic proportions.

[joeybee12]

13. Yes, and one of the most vile gay people in this country...

He basically agrees with fundies of gay marriage and other social issues...he's garbage, IMHO

[beaglelover]

17. He supports marriage equality according to the linked article.

[joeybee12]

19. In his RNC speech he called it a distraction,

as in not an issue people whouldbe talking about.

[beaglelover]

20. Well at least he does not want to overturn the marriage ruling, which is a tiny good thing.

Not that he'll ever be on the Supreme Court.

[tenderfoot]

24. He's also a total misogynist...

the miserable turd.

[sarae]

4. Good GOD

This guy?!

The secretive tech billionaire who recently admitted to funding a lawsuit meant to crush the media company Gawker is known for having some radical opinions. But in an essay published in 2009, he surprised many when he wrote that giving women the right to vote — by constitutional amendment in 1920 — was a blow to democracy.

Here’s Thiel, writing on Cato Unbound, a blog affiliated with the libertarian think tank:

Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/peter-thiel-women-democracy_us_5747079be4b03ede4413f6f5

[mpcamb]

5. Beware of people who make money by fondling yours, and then giving back

most of it.
It's generally a really bad deal.

[Odin2005]

7. Oh god, no...

[mnhtnbb]

8. He has zero experience practicing law. One year clerking after Stanford Law for a Reagan

appointee to the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. How appropriate that Trump--totally unqualified to be POTUS--would consider nominating someone for SCOTUS that would also be unqualified?

[cstanleytech]

10. Ya but being a lawyer isnt a requirement to become a SCOTUS judge

[milestogo]

16. Its hard to imagine the Senate confirming someone who hadn't been a judge

much less someone who wasn't a lawyer.

[totodeinhere]

18. Oh come on. Plenty of Supreme Court justices never served as a judge included

Earl Warren.

[milestogo]

28. That's one.

[cstanleytech]

21. Well its certainly unlikely today but it has happened before in our history. nt

[brooklynite]

11. "Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers"

"Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they?" -- U.S. Senator Roman Hruska on Nixon appointee Harrold Carswell.

[Politicub]

9. Disgusting. A Clarence Thomas for today.

And someone certain to gut whatever meager civil protections the American people have left.

[Justice]

12. Trump and Thiel have each demonstrated a willingness to seek revenge - that sums it up

[Megahurtz]

14. No way

Trump cannot win or it IS time to leave the country.

[rusty fender]

15. LOLOLOL!

If I were Thiel, I wouldn't expect Trump to keep his word

[Sunlei]

22. Only 8 more weeks before the republican loser is knocked off his perch.

[Funtatlaguy]

23. Actually it could be only 11 more days

I'm expecting a clock cleaning at the debate on 9/26.
I can't wait for it.
Even if all of the pundits brag on how Trump won because he didn't fall down and crap his pants.

[Sunlei]

25. live questions, with no quit the interview or walk away. And dominated live on stage, by a woman!

He hates that

[Gothmog]

26. We need to point out to Conservatives that Trump has abandoned the Heritage Foundation list

Many of the less insane GOP types were supporting trump because they were comfortable with a list of potential SCOTUS justices approved by Jim DeMint and the Heritage Foundation. https://thinkprogress.org/trump-says-he-will-delegate-supreme-court-appointments-to-the-heritage-foundation-f0a51790683c#.i783iabhg The judges on that list were mainly idiots but many conservatives like this list and were willing to vote for trump due to this list. Now Trump has abandoned the Jim DeMint/Heritage Foundation approved list and will appoint rich people with no qualifications to the SCOTUS

[Ruby the Liberal]

27. It will never fly

I can't imagine a non-term-limited senator (from either party) voting to confirm Thiel. This is just more stage blather.