Posted on 01/10/2017 11:42:21 AM PST by Pinkbell
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) declared Tuesday during his Senate confirmation hearing that he would respect the Supreme Court's decisions about both Roe v. Wade and same-sex marriage if he is confirmed as attorney general. While Sessions admitted he believes the ruling on women's right to abortion "violated the Constitution," he acknowledged that it is now "the law of the land." "I would respect it and follow it," Sessions said, while admitting he still thinks the Roe v. Wade decision was "colossally erroneous."
Sessions also indicated he agreed with President-elect Donald Trump that the debate over same-sex marriage is already "settled." "I will follow that decision," Sessions said, citing the Supreme Court's 5-4 vote in favor of broadening the definition of marriage.
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So was slavery at one time
Yes since the left is all about enforcing existing “laws of the land”.
I wasn’t aware of congress passing laws legalizing abortion or gay marriage.
Exactly - like immigration law. This law is unconstitutional, and it leads to the death of 1.3 million children per year. It wouldn’t be calling it the “law of land.” Slavery was once the “law of the land” too.
“If Liberals think their pet laws are immune to change, we need to disabuse them of that notion.”
Yep! They need to learn what a “constitutional amendment” is if they want to keep pushing this ridiculous garbage at the Federal level via some appointed-for-life black robed tyrants.
Just because they’re lazy and cannot mount a sane argument doesn’t mean their trashy pet projects should be imposed on the entire nation due to some interpretation of the US Constitution by some body of judges at one point in time. Makes ZERO sense.
These two laws were activist decisions.
So are the laws on immigration, but Democrats sure seem to think they can be ignored or changed.
He also said if that law was overturned he would enforce that law as well
As attorney general his job is to enforce the law not to decide if it is fair or not. If we want something changed that is our job. We hope that the USSC will do something about it
Even though we won, we just lost again. SMH.
No sir. Either change it or God will.
It goes without saying that SCOTUS decisions can’t be overridden by a US AG. But Congress has that authority to some degree and a new court can revise a prior court decision. Further, there are executive orders which can impact the way SCOTUS decisions are implemented - or not.
Conservatives should have learn a lot from the damn libs when it comes to promoting an agenda.
Whenever we get to these issues, our people tip toe around them. The Dems don’t care. They support abortion through 9 months - with Obama opposing protecting children born alive during an abortion. Why do we allow the media to dictate that there is something controversial about protecting unborn life?
As far as same sex marriage, I contend the Supreme Court didn’t have the right to change the definition of marriage - a definition that has proceeded the founding of this country.
Did you hear Ted Cruz today? He was great.
The point is, it’s not the AGs place to determine that. He enforces the law; he does not make it.
Therefore, we should be able to say that the US Supreme [sic] Court themselves ignored the "law of the land" by declaring unilaterally that no state laws forbidding abortion were Constitutional, even after 80-90 years of being in force, and without any comprehensible reason.
We are 44 years out from this decision of Roe v. Wade, which wasn't law but destruction of law. Some of us will live to see that day that Constitutional protection is again extended to all human beings.
And so was “separate but equal” under Plessy v Ferguson.
The President doesn’t have the authority to abolish gay marriage. And, I doubt he would if he could. DJT could not care less about gay marriage.
Leaky Leahey sounds like he is trying to set up Trump for impeachment based on that old tape. Why is this traitorous bastard not in jail?
What I would like someone to say is “yes, it is the law of the land. At one time, so was Jim Crow, so was segregation, so was whites/blacks only laws, so was Dredd Scott. However, over time and much bloodshed, these laws were deemed unjust and unconstitutional. Over the past few decades, over 60 million babies have been murdered by a segment of the medical and law industry more interested in making money then saving lives. As AG, I would follow the law but would work to get the law changed, just as I would any other unjust law.”
Well, like Nuremberg Trials, it WAS known to all people who had an ability to “think” critically, that any “Just” law ONLY promotes “public virtue” and can never be “Just” or constitutional, if it promotes illegal, unnatural dysfunctional “behaviors” that kill others or destroy the dignity and meaning of institutions. Any behavior (like sodomy and baby-killing) which treats human beings as a Means (object/slave) is unconstitutional—period. Every lawyer who doesn’t understand simple Natural Law Theory—that which created the US Constitution, needs to be disbarred. Or, if they are on the bench, they need to be tried for treason if they promote antithetical behaviors like baby-killing and sodomy. BTW, ALL Law promotes morality and the ONLY morality based in the US Constitution is Christian morality of individual Natural Rights from God only—never the State.
Now, saying there is a “right” to kill your own genetic offspring is not only vile, unnatural and evil, it is unconstitutional since Science proves a baby is separate and alive inside the womb. All people have Natural Rights in the USA.
And the promotion of sodomy and “sodomite marriage” is irrational and denies babies their biological mother or father (their Natural right), and a system which creates children out of Love and committed relationships—proven best system for civil societies (Natural family unit). To raise children to be emotionally healthy and flourishing takes a loving mother and father (non-sexist system), and to deny that truth or Natural Right is irrational and unnatural and a removal of Natural Law Theory from our legal system, which formed our Justice (virtue) system. Constitutional Law can never be antithetical to the individual natural rights of any human being.
The Leftists removed Right Reason and truth (science (God)) from our legal system which is unconstitutional. We need to put Right Reason and Natural Law BACK into our “legal” system.
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