Hobby Lobby lawyer who beat Obamacare wins seat on federal appeals court

The Washington Times ^ | April 24, 2018 | Alex Swoyer

[jazusamo]

A lawyer who led the fight against Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate, eventually winning the Hobby Lobby case before the Supreme Court, won confirmation by the Senate Tuesday to a federal appeals court.

Senators voted 50-47 to confirm Stuart Kyle Duncan to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Only one Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, broke with his party to support Mr. Duncan.

Other Democrats voiced opposition to Mr. Duncan as an “unfit ideologue” who fought women’s access to reproductive healthcare. They also said his defense of state laws requiring photo-ID to vote, among other voting changes, amounted to voter suppression for minorities.

“He has made a career out of fighting to restrict the rights and legal protections of the vulnerable and those who are powerless,” Sen. Ron Wyden, Oregon Democrat, said.

[jazusamo]

Oregon's Ron Wyden seems to be at odds with voter ID, typical RAT.

[fwdude]

Very good news!!! We need a lot more pro-freedom constitutional conservatives on these courts.

[SMGFan]

http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/conservative-court-nominee-highlights-smoother-path-bench

[jazusamo]

Bump!

[Buckeye McFrog]

translation: 47 members of the U.S. Senate wish to see as many dead babies as possible.

[NorthMountain]

Only one Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who is running scared, broke with his party to support Mr. Duncan.

[jazusamo]

Good writeup, thanks for linking.

[pstwwl]

When all or virtually all of the Dems appose a judge, you know it’s a high quality nominee.

[pstwwl]

When all or virtually all of the Dems oppose a judge, you know it’s a high quality nominee.

[mrsmith]

Outstanding.
(Also shows we need a replacement for McCain ASAP.)

[jazusamo]

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[backwoods-engineer]

women’s access to reproductive healthcare

Translation: maintaining the Hell-spawned fiction that a woman who solicits the violent murder of her unborn child is seeking "healthcare".

[fwdude]

I think this was more of an inane “resist” gesture and would have been the same for any nominee of Trump.

[JME_FAN]

WINNING!

[gibsonguy]

Absolutely correct we are the point where any nominee that gets more than a few Rats to confirm is almost certainly a very bad pick. I’m looking at you Wray.

[freedumb2003]

who fought women’s access to reproductive healthcare baby killing parts shops.

SOBs should use the correct term.

[Midwesterner53]

Excellent!

[ripnbang]

Manchin just needs to switch parties and be done with it.

[Flavious_Maximus]

Here you have the massively insane left wing ideologues of the democRAT party complaining about someone else being an ideologue.

A note to democrats: take that giant log out of your eye before complaining about the splinter in your opponents eye.

[Mr. Lucky]

Well said.