Trump Praises His Sister, a Pro-Abortion Extremist Judge

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner ^ | August 27, 2015 | Ramesh Ponnuru

[Steelfish]

Trump Praises His Sister, a Pro-Abortion Extremist Judge by Ramesh Ponnuru August 27, 2015

Donald Trump told Mark Halperin yesterday that his sister, a federal judge, would be a “phenomenal” Supreme Court justice. He also said that “we will have to rule that out now, at least.” If he ever becomes president, let’s hope he rules it out permanently. Maryanne Trump Barry came up in my book The Party of Death for writing one of those heated judicial decisions in favor of giving constitutional protection to partial-birth abortion.

She called a New Jersey law against it a “desperate attempt” to undermine Roe v. Wade. It was, she wrote, “based on semantic machinations, irrational line-drawing, and an obvious attempt to inflame public opinion instead of logic or medical evidence.” It made no difference where the fetus was when it “expired.”

So: The right of abortionists to make a child “expire” by partially extracting her from the womb, sticking scissors in the back of her head, vacuuming out her brain, and crushing her skull to complete her extraction, is right there in the Constitution. But let’s please not have any “semantic machinations.

[theoilpainter]

Very carefully. Trump is fun to watch, and I love his anti PC stance, but he is no conservative. People like his style ( so do I) but are overlooking the fact that he has scant conservative credentials and, from his numerous flip flops, apparently no core beliefs. They are reading into him their own conservative beliefs and pretending they are his.

People also did this with Obama.

I’m not voting for Trump.

[Williams]

People here despised Huckabee in the past. He was great in the debate maybe a great VP. Right now I’d take Huckabee, Trump, Cruz. He’s third only because the other two have more media savvy and more world experience to date.

In watching Cruz my reaction was he will make a great president in 4-8 years.

But I would gladly take Cruz now.

[JmyBryan]

Trump isn’t a conservative. I’m voting for him, because he’s a principled patriot.

[Helicondelta]

Why Trump is a conservative

1. Pro life since at least 2011, wanted to ban partial birth abortion as far back as 2000.
2. Says no funds for Planned Parenthood, while they do abortions.
3. Pro Traditional marriage. "Gay rights is not my thing."
4. Pro capital punishment "Capital punishment isn't uncivilized; murderers living is"
5. Hold Judges accountable
6. Opposes "Common core is a diaster" Teach citizenship, quit "dumbing down".
7. Anti education unions (2000)
8. For school choice
9. "Climate Change is a hoax"
10. "No Cap-and-Tax"
11. For drilling our own.
12. On Environment "Good development enhances the environment"
13. Stressed the importance of a strong family & culture of life (2015)
14. Supports Israel
15. Opposes Iran deal and letting Iran obtain the bomb.
16. Wants to crush ISIS quickly.
17. Wants a military so strong no one will challenge us.
18. Against unbalanced trade deals that kill American jobs.
19. Against warrantless government surveilance of citizens.
20. Is against having a high national debt. Warns that $24T is a point of no return.
21. Againt gun control
22. For assault weapon ban but says the AR-15 shouldn't be considered an assault weapon.
23. Wants to repeal Obamacare and replace it with market driven polices and increased competition among insurance companies.
24. Wants to increase military spending.
25. Will close the border to illegals
26. Will send the criminals and sponges back.
27. Will deport all illegals but will let the hard working ones go through the legal process to come back.
28. Against Anchor babies
29. Knows unemployment is much higher than official stats.
30. Will bring jobs back through better trade negotiation.
31. Attended military academy and Wharton Business School.
32. Stood up for Birthers and challenged Obama on his fraud.
33. Believes USA is "the greatest force for freedom the world has ever known"
34. Wants to honor commitments on Social Security and Medicare, which we can afford to do if he gets the economy going full steam.
35. Wants to reduce the fraud in disability and other programs.
36. Against marriage penalties in tax code.
37. Wants to reduce income taxes and eliminate corporate tax.
38. Wants to rebuld our infrastructure.
39. Wants to apply welfare-to-work to 76 other welfare programs (2011)
40. Doesn't have time for political correctness.
41. Not afraid to call out either party or both when they are wrong.
42. Not a puppet to campaign donators.

 

[Conscience of a Conservative]

Trump is NOT a Conservative. The so called “hatchet jobs” are merely Conservatives presenting evidence of this obvious truth.

I agree 100%, for all of the other NRO articles I've seen about Trump. He's no conservative, and there's no reason a conservative publication should be expected to support him.

This article, though, is a "hatchet job." There's no reason to criticize him for saying nice things about his sister. And to do so risks your credibility when you criticize him for the (many) legitimate reasons.

[PGalt]

Good pic of Hillary Sanger Clinton. It looks like she just came from a baby dissection at the Planned, Pre-Meditated, Progressive, noParenthood, Taxpayer Forced-to-Fund, Profit Abortuary.

[skippyjonjones]

Yeah, he should just call his sister a bitch and slap her in the face. You guys have lost it.

[Abby4116]

Headline is a little misleading.

"The other panelists were Judge Leonard I. Garth and Judge Samuel A. Alito, who wrote a separate but concurring opinion. Judge Alito said he favored finding the New Jersey law unconstitutional, stressing that any limits on abortion must have an exception for the preservation of the health of the mother."

I doubt anyone would consider Alito Pro-Abortion.

[Jane Long]

Complete meltdown.

[hoosiermama]

Read part of he opinion the other day. What she was saying was the argument given was not consistent with the previous ruling. It was more of a technical decision than a moral nr ethical opinion

IMO This is a hit piece.
Barry spoke for the confirmation of Sam Alto at his Supreme Court confirmation

[parksstp]

Look, saying nice things about a family member is one thing.

Saying you “think they’d make a great SCOTUS Justice” given their judicial opinions?

Once again this comes back to integrity and trust. Nobody has the foggiest idea where Trump stands on anything when he says everything.

[Above My Pay Grade]

I would normally agree about a praise for a family member, but when a Presidential candidate says someone would be a “phenomenal Supreme Court justice” I think it is relevant, family member or not.

[Lopeover]

LOL!

[Conscience of a Conservative]

Yeah, he should just call his sister a bitch and slap her in the face. You guys have lost it.

Who do you mean "you guys"? I was disagreeing with the article...

[silverleaf]

Oh no, Trump’s sister is a liberal!

No pure conservative has any of those liberal relatives in their families!
Ask Dick Cheney!

Definitely makes him unfit to be president of the U.S.

[skippyjonjones]

Wasn’t meant for you. “You guys” was for the TDS bunch.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

I would normally agree about a praise for a family member, but when a Presidential candidate says someone would be a “phenomenal Supreme Court justice” I think it is relevant, family member or not.

I would generally agree about saying that about a judge, but Trump would obviously never nominate his sister to the Supreme Court (again, she's way too old, she's his sister, and in any event, he's not going to be President anyway). So, given that, I view it as a pretty inconsequential statement that was meant to be nice about his sister...

[FreeAtlanta]

[Abby4116]

It doesn't sound as if his sister is any more liberal than Alito since they concurred in the decision.

It was a bad law - had already been struck down by one court as unconstitutional, mirrored a Nebraska law that was struck down by the USSC the month before.

[stars & stripes forever]

America cannot tolerate another pro-abortion president.