"Right now we're fat and happy,' said @mrddmia, president of @Article3Project, a group that strategizes with Republican senators and the White House on judicial confirmations." nytimes.com/2020/10/27/us/…
“We have the first true conservative majority on the Supreme Court in 80 years. The president has done such an outstanding job on judicial appointments that we are out of federal circuit seats to fill. So Republicans could be complacent while Democrats are fired up.”
"But @mrddmia has not given up on the court as the path to igniting fervor on his side. He is pinning his hopes on court packing.
'Court packing is so much more of a culture fight,” Mr. Davis said, describing the Republican messaging on the issue."
"[@mrddmia] ran through a list of rights that he thought an expanded court would jeopardize: religious expression, free speech, gun ownership. 'Court packing is an extreme, clear and present danger,' he said."
“Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States is truly a historic moment. For the first time in more than 80 years, we will have a true conservative majority on the Supreme Court.” — @mrddmia
“This means that the Supreme Court will protect everyday Americans from government overreach and mob rule, whether it’s liberal politicians attempting to chase away Christians and other believers from the public square or otherwise punish them for their religious beliefs...”
“...silence conservatives on college campuses, or cancelling Americans who express differing views in other public places, ban law-abiding Americans from owning guns to protect themselves and their families, or destroy American entrepreneurs and jobs through the unelected...”
"According to the conservative Article III Project, which supports Trump’s nominees, all of the 15 judicial nominees waiting for a hearing would sit in courts in states with at least one Democratic senator with effective veto power over their advancement." njour.nl/s/709764?unloc…
"More than half of the outstanding nominees hail from California. Sens. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, and Kamala Harris . . .
. . . the Democratic nominee for vice president, have signed off on California nominees in the past but are less likely to do so as the year goes on. Others hail from New York and New Mexico."
Mike Davis [@mrddmia], president of the conservative Article III Project that supports [@realDonaldTrump’s] judicial picks, said he is considering buying ads that point out the Democratic Party Platform.
The left’s “radical court-packing scheme” would motivate [@realDonaldTrump’s] base for the November election, [@mrddmia] said.
“Republicans need to see, and maybe the Democratic platform will do it, that there is a clear threat to a conservative majority on the [Supreme] Court,” [@mrddmia] said.
Mike Davis [@mrddmia], former chief counsel for nominations for Senator [@ChuckGrassley] on the [@senjudiciary] Committee and now president of the Article III Project, says that . . .
“Senator [@ChuckGrassley] was the key figure in keeping the Scalia seat open, and on President [@realDonaldTrump’s] historic transformation of the federal judiciary.”
“Chairman [@LindseyGrahamSC] has said that he would move forward with a nomination, and I am confident that Senator [@ChuckGrassley] will fully support that nomination.”
"[@mrddmia], a fmr. Judiciary Committee aide who now boosts Trump's judges at @Article3Project, called Roe "an abomination" and said he understood Hawley "wants to make sure that these judicial nominees are actually conservatives instead of just pretending to be conservatives."
...[@mrddmia] still disagreed with Hawley's approach. "We don't have litmus tests for judges, and the reason is we're going to lose that fight every time."
But Mike Davis [@mrddmia], the founder of the Article III Project, an organization that says it takes a "brass knuckles" approach to supporting Trump judicial nominees, warned of the danger of conservatives wading into "judicial-activism."
"Parties before the court must get a fair shake — and not have their case decision precooked in a smoke-filled room in the Senate.”
“If conservatives legitimize the judicial-activism game, we will lose that game much more often than not — as many of these liberal results are oftentimes politically popular," Davis [@mrddmia] said.