OPINION:
The Supreme Court never got a mention in the first presidential debate — and why would it — whomever is elected to the White House will decide the balance of power in the nation’s highest court.
A victory in November for Mrs. Clinton would give the court its first liberal majority since the Vietnam-era. A new nine-member court could change the nation’s trajectory on abortion, looking to chip away at more restrictive state laws, it could pursue gun control, and be more receptive to class-action lawsuits and EPA regulations.
Mrs. Clinton, unlike Donald Trump, hasn’t released a list of names she would recommend to the court, saying only that Congress should confirm President Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland. That’s the politically correct thing to say right now — but if Mrs. Clinton wins in November, there’s no doubt she’ll name her own, more liberal choice to the bench.
There’s been some speculation that Loretta Lynch, the attorney general of the Department of Justice, could be on Mrs. Clinton’s short-list. Mrs. Clinton already floated the idea to The New York Times in July, that she would like Ms. Lynch to stay on and serve in her administration.
After the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, Ms. Lynch became a favorite of some to be Mr. Obama’s nominee to replace the conservative justice. Ms. Lynch asked the White House to take her name from the running because the nomination process would curtail the effectiveness of her role as AG.
Since that time, she’s done her job.
In July, Ms. Lynch met former President Bill Clinton on the tarmac at a Phoenix airport, and then a week her department decided not to indict Mrs. Clinton for mishandling classified information, despite overwhelming evidence proving she did.
“The meeting was described by Lynch as purely innocent with topics about grandchildren and golf. Bill no doubt was delighted with a second grandchild and the message to Lynch was his grandchildren may have two grandparents who served as President, but only if there is no indictment of Hillary,” Richard Henry Lee, of the American Thinker, wrote at the time.
“Left unsaid also is the possibility that Lynch would be at the top of the list of candidates to replace Justice Scalia on the Supreme Court. Lynch was appointed as US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York in 1999 by Bill Clinton, and no doubt Lynch was grateful for the opportunity to serve in that capacity. The only higher office for Lynch would be an appointment to the Supreme Court,” he wrote.
It would also open the door to disgraced FBI Director James B. Comey. He then could rise as Attorney General.
This, folks, is how Clinton Inc. works. You have to consider every possibility. Not one is too corrupt or out-of-bounds.
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