Posted on 07/06/2018 8:57:40 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Despite what many of us want to believe, President Donald Trump is the front-runner in 2020. If you supported him in 2016, you have little reason to regret your choice -- he's working hard to fulfill all his campaign promises. Sure, the polls often show that Trump's approval rating is underwater. But voters are a lot more than just data points graphed onto projections.
No incumbent president in recent history has presided over a strong economy, not been enmeshed in a ground war and lost the next election. So, for those of us who desperately want to see a new president, just telling ourselves that a majority of the voters in key states will see what we see and feel how we feel isn't enough to actually win. It's going to take more than the constant tearing of garments and endless howls of outrage to beat him. It's going to take an outside factor -- like Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement.
There's no easily foreseeable reason the Senate won't be able to confirm whomever Trump nominates. In theory, Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, could join the 49 Democrats and slow the process, but it may not be realistic to expect every Democrat to stick together, particularly ones up for re-election in red states....
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Roe v. Wade was classic “judicial legislation”. This is much akin to Obama’s “executive legislation” via executive order. The problem with that is the courts and executive branch can’t really legislate. The validity of judicial and executive “law” is that it can be disregarded or changed at any time. Roe v Wade is not “law”.
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He certainly made promises in his 1948 “re”election campaign.
Strategy, scare Republicans into thinking it would be bad for us politically to overturn Roe.
Thoughts?
I’m not scare. Fill court wid constutionalists n let them handle it
bump
My reaction is “Bring it on.” This will motivate conservatives like nothing else, and liberals will realize that overturning Roe, by itself, will do nothing to end abortion on demand. Heck, there are several states (I know that MD is one) where the state constitution was amended years ago to create a “right to abortion” even if Roe is overturned.
The real battles start after Roe is overturned, with each state getting to legislate on abortion and Congress considering measures with national scope.
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