President Donald Trump instead named 48-year-old Judge Amy Coney Barrett of Indiana, a favorite of the president’s conservative base.
But the full significance of their loving words was not lost on peers and teachers in Hialeah, the blue-collar enclave outside of Miami where Antonio and Araceli settled after fleeing their native Cuba in 1966. Decades later, conservatives are still stung that President George H.W. Ms Lagoa has helped render judgments in about 12,000 cases and written more than 400 opinions, Mr Panuccio estimated. The Republicans are said to be making the case that the longtime judge and devout Catholic has the legal chops to do the job and the conservative background to appease the GOP base, these people said. González was the 5-year-old boy found floating in the ocean after his mother and others drowned while trying to flee to the United States. Graduating from Monsignor Edward Pace High School the same year as Lagoa was Tom Duffin, a former friend and now the school's Athletic Director. The law was passed by the Republican-controlled state Legislature after voters approved a constitutional amendment that ended the state’s lifetime voting ban for most felons.
But on a personal level I can tell you she is a devoted spouse, a devoted daughter and a devoted mother to her three beautiful daughters. “Here’s a Hialeah girl who‘s a great student who made her family proud from the moment she was born. On Friday, as word emerged in Washington that Trump had made his selection, Barrett was spotted piloting her Honda minivan into her driveway in South Bend, Indiana, climbing out with a reusable Whole Foods grocery bag and greeting two of her children with hugs. In written answers, she recalled how the group's powerful executive vice president, Leonard Leo, had traveled to Orlando to interview finalists for the federal bench. Ms Lagoa was born in Miami and grew up in Hialeah. Lagoa regards herself as a 'originalist', a legal philosophy that believes in a strict application of the law exactly as it was intended by its authors. | Wilfredo Lee/AP Photo, By GARY FINEOUT, MARC CAPUTO and MATT DIXON.
Barrett is a committed Roman Catholic.
Kavanuagh said he didn’t recognize Guttenberg and didn’t intend to slight him. Lagoa would bring some legal baggage with her to a confirmation hearing. Once on the federal court, however, Lagoa did not recuse herself from a case that she had heard while on the Florida Supreme Court. MIAMI — Leading Florida Republican politicians are launching an all-out effort to convince President Donald Trump to nominate federal Judge Barbara Lagoa to the U.S. Supreme Court — a move they say would boost his reelection chances in the must-win swing state.
By then, questions had already begun to arise inside the White House about Lagoa's ties to the Bush family, given Jeb Bush had put her on a state appellate court. As the child of exiles who fled Castro’s Cuba on what were known as “freedom flights” in 1966, Lagoa’s story aligns with the themes echoed at the GOP convention, which featured two Cuban Americans on consecutive nights waxing poetic about the American dream and the horrors of totalitarian socialism. MURDERERS, PEDOPHILES RELEASED ON TECHNICALITIES. Lagoa (pictured in her high school yearbook) graduated from Florida International University in 1989 and Columbia Law School in 1992, before working for the next decade as an associate attorney for a string of Miami law firms, representing banks, insurance companies and corporates, Lagoa is pictured fresh faced with a headband and short hair in her 1985 high school yearbook, Banned from studying law when he refused to swear allegiance to Fidel Castro's stifling communist regime, Antonio pledged instead to give his own children every chance in life and he followed through as his only daughter Barbara is a potential Supreme Court nominee, Antonio and Araceli Lagoa took out a full page senior ad in the youngster's high school yearbook to congratulate their only daughter, writing: 'You have come a long way, and we are very proud of you, Barbie'. As a Cuban American, Lagoa was seen as boosting the president’s re-election effort in Florida, a crucial swing state that Trump needs to win. Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg has since revealed he contributed $16m to the Florida Rights Restoration Collation to pay fines and get felons back on to voting rolls in time for the election. Advocates for Ms Lagoa sent text messages and placed calls over the weekend to officials in the White House and the Justice Department, as well as prominent attorneys who have sway with Mr Trump's top aides, according to several people with knowledge of the discussions. Jeb Bush appointed her to Florida’s 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal in Miami. Trump's determination to fill the seat so close to the November General Election has sparked outrage among Democrats but longtime admirers say Lagoa's humble immigrant backstory should inspire people of all political hues. She also acknowledged having attended an annual Federalist Society conference and celebration hosted for judges at Disney World.
Barbara Lagoa emerged this weekend as a leading contender to take the Supreme Court seat held by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. "And that's of concern when you come to big issues that large numbers of people have fought for years in this county.". Jesse Panuccio, a longtime Florida attorney and former third-ranking official in the Department of Justice in the Trump administration, echoed Amandi and said the pick of Lagoa could “energize” an important slice of the Florida electorate. Jeb Bush appointed Lagoa to Florida's 3rd District Court of Appeal in Miami, where she served for 13 years, rising briefly to chief judge. "I spent most of my time at the dessert reception speaking with lawyers and other judges, as well as their children, about non-legal matters (for example, our children, our day on the rides at other theme parks at Walt Disney World)," she wrote. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium.
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Create a commenting name to join the debate, There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts, There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts. In public, Trump attempted to build suspense around his pick, praising Lagoa even though sources said he had cooled on her privately early on. Republican victory in Supreme Court battle could mean millions lose health insurance in the middle of a pandemic, Ruth Bader Ginsburg: 13 of the Supreme Court Justice’s most inspirational quotes, Biden warns confirming Supreme Court justice before election would cause ‘irreversible damage’ and promises to nominate a Black woman if he wins, You may not agree with our views, or other users’, but please respond to them respectfully, Swearing, personal abuse, racism, sexism, homophobia and other discriminatory or inciteful language is not acceptable, Do not impersonate other users or reveal private information about third parties, We reserve the right to delete inappropriate posts and ban offending users without notification. She had no high-profile rulings on the matter in the nearly 500 decisions she wrote as a state appeals court judge or in other decisions during her brief time on the Florida Supreme Court justice and, since late last year, a judge on the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Leading Florida Republicans, including DeSantis, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio are reportedly trying to persuade the President that nominating a popular Cuban-American would boost his reelection prospects in a must-win state where the Hispanic vote could prove pivotal. 'I've always told students to dream big, shoot for the stars, don't set limitations on yourself. “Democrats always play the race card. In contrast, Lagoa’s views on abortion are little known. Lagoa agreed that Losada was denied his legal right to defend himself after the trial judge couldn't make sense of his replies and instead appointed a public defender.
Does she bring a different life experience to the Supreme Court? Both are bases of the Democratic Party, but Hispanic voters are more winnable for Republicans, in part because Cuban-Americans tend to vote heavily Republican.
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