Trump Fox News : Former Vice President Mike Pence praised the Trump administration’s success in shifting the federal bench to the right while speaking to a crowd of 1,200 evangelical activists at the annual leadership summit of the Family Leader, a top social conservative organisation in Iowa, the first-in-the-nation presidential caucus state.
The opinions of Trump Supreme Court justices have enraged social conservatives
Pence praises the justices, but activists in Iowa respond with a “golf clap, not a booming cheer.”
DES MOINES, Iowa – DES MOINES, Iowa – It was a line that you’d expect to get a round of applause for.
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“Over 300 conservatives have been nominated to federal courts at all levels, including Justice Neil Gorsuch, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
Isn’t she a force to be reckoned with?” Pence informed the audience.
There was modest applause for the former vice president’s comment, but no standing ovation.
The audience may have been fatigued because Pence was the final big speaker of the daylong conference.
However, the reaction could be additional evidence that social conservative voters are dissatisfied with the Supreme Court justices picked by then-President Trump, who many believe have failed to deliver.
Evangelical voters accepted Trump’s numerous problems in favour of his promise to appoint conservative judges to the federal courts, and massively supported him in both his 2016 presidential election success and his 2020 reelection defeat.
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And Trump kept his word, with a big helping hand from then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
The nomination of Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett has altered the Supreme Court’s power balance to a conservative 6-3 majority.
However, a high court that liberals fear and conservatives admire has failed to deliver as predicted, leaving those on the right disappointed.
Bob Vander Plaats, president and CEO of Family Leader, told Fox News that Pence “received a golf clap, not a booming applause.”
“There’s no doubt” the rank and file in Vander Plaats’ group are dissatisfied, he added.
“I think they’ve been less than satisfied with Kavanaugh and even Amy Coney Barrett.”
“What I think you saw there was a lot of over-promising about if we win the Supreme Court, if we get the justices, watch out, they’ll decide in accordance with the Constitution, the original intent,” he said.
Some significant Supreme Court verdicts did not sit well with conservatives during the recently ended term.
The Supreme Court did not strike down the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare by many Americans, which has been a longtime GOP ambition.
The court also sided with a transgender student who refused to use the school toilet that was assigned to his sex at birth, a contentious subject among many conservatives.
While the court concluded that a Catholic social services organisation in Philadelphia could flout city rules by refusing to cooperate with same-sex couples applying for foster children, the narrow scope of the decision disappointed some.
After the decision, three conservative Supreme Court justices – Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch – appeared to blame Barrett and Kavanaugh for being too cautious.
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from a florist in Washington state who refused to construct a floral arrangement for a same-sex couple because of religious concerns about same-sex marriages.
A CHRISTIAN FLORIST WHO REFUSED A SAME-SEX COUPLE SAYS THE SUPREME COURT’S REFUSAL TO TAKE HER APPEAL WAS “DEVASTATING.”
The former president is equally dissatisfied.
“I’m quite disappointed. I worked hard for them, but I was dissatisfied with several of their decisions “After the ObamaCare judgement, Trump told Real America’s Voice network host David Brody.
NEW: President Trump tells @DBrodyreports that he’s “very disappointed” with Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh on SCOTUS Obamacare ruling. “I fought very hard for them.”
Watch the rest of the interview on #TheWaterCooler today on #RealAmVoice @Justthenews pic.twitter.com/WaJJl9g5cK
— Real America's Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) June 21, 2021
“So far, we have seen little from either Barrett or Kavanaugh to warrant conservatives’ high hopes for them,” conservative pundit, TV host, and author Ben Shapiro told Fox News last week.
While disappointed, evangelicals point out that the 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court has yet to hear a major abortion case.
But that will soon change, as the Supreme Court announced in May that it will hear an abortion rights case next term, which is considered as a major challenge to Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalised abortion statewide decades ago.
Mississippi’s appeal of lower court decisions striking down a state ban on all abortions after 15 weeks, with the exception of medical emergency or severe foetal abnormalities, will be heard by the Supreme Court.
The case will most likely be heard in the fall, with a decision due in June of next year.
The ultimate verdict on Trump’s Supreme Court candidates is far from written, according to a major national social conservative political leader who asked to remain unnamed in order to talk more freely.
“Most, I believe, are taking a wait-and-see approach. There have been some setbacks, but there have also been significant victories for religious liberty, and there has yet to be a major abortion case.
“We’ll see,” the president remarked, adding that Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett “are tremendous upgrades over Hillary Clinton’s nominees and may turn out to be quite good.””
Vander Plaats agreed, emphasising that “The verdict is still pending. We’ll be keeping a close eye on a number of instances that are likely to come before the court.”
“We believe that’s a good hint that (the justices) would have the votes to start eroding the validity of Roe v. Wade,” he added, referring to the upcoming Mississippi case.
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