Posted on 07/19/2005 8:55:06 PM PDT by CHARLITE
NARAL, the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, immediately lashed out at President Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court.
"If Roberts is confirmed to a lifetime appointment, there is little doubt that he will work to overturn Roe v. Wade," a NARAL statement said Tuesday night.
"As deputy solicitor general under the first President Bush, he argued to the Supreme Court that 'Roe was wrongly decided and should be overruled,' " NARAL also claimed. Abortion will likely be the most contentious issue surrounding Judge Roberts and his nomination.
When Bush nominated Roberts to the D.C. Court of Appeals in 2003, NARAL complained:
"We believe he was nominated in large measure because of his narrow view of constitutional rights, and it is for this same reason that the Senate should reject his nomination."
The pro-abortion group was particularly irked by Roberts' argument: "The Court's conclusion in Roe that there is a fundamental right to an abortion finds no support in the text, structure, or history of the Constitution."
Republicans control the Senate's Judiciary Committee by 10-to-8, and the full Senate with 55 seats.
Unless the Democrats filibuster, Roberts is a clear favorite to win confirmation.
If the Democrats do launch a filibuster, Republicans may finally unleash "the nuclear option" and do away with the Senate rule that allows a minority to block the majority will.
ACLU press release:
Herexigency: just another frustrated, drug-addled lefty.
To take just one fact from her blather, having survived it myself, CA is definitely not a `true-blue state'. Sure, they have LA and Frisc--btw, they love it when you call it that!--they can have them. Orange county, San Diego county, the agricultural valleys, eg. Fresno, Sacramento, etc., anywhere people make their own beds--'red' as blood.
So, if you're leaving, Herexigency, we'll keep all the food, the wheat, corn, beeves--and produce--and most of the states, and on both coasts.
You can keep your 'piss-christ', other 'art' and 'culture, and bad attitudes.
Waste of a zot otherwise.
Why is it that this possibility sounds pretty good, as a whole? Weeelllll, I guess it is because the moronic wanker socialists would dick things up so bad we would have to come in and straighten stuff back out eventually. What?! No net loss of territory, you say? We would get it all back after the leftists had starved, mugged, carjacked, aborted, and backstabbed each other into the dustbin of history. So take your pathetic little ball and bat and go home.
I am a pilgrim in an unholy land! I live in Marin County! Ground Zero for liberal stupidity. You know what... I have NO PROBLEM getting in these idiots face..I'm a contractor and CRANK talk radio all day, Beck, Rush, Savage...others, whenever anyone {not my clients, of course} complains or comments I just look at them and say "you got a problem?, I didn't think so!" I find they are just too stoned or stupid to take seriously. There are a lot more of us than that idiot thinks. Peace out!!!
Hmm...says he joined on the 15th of July.
I smell a DUmmie troll.
I lived in San Diego a long time ago, then El Cajon: Normal, nice people, a lot of military, retired for the most part--but with lunatic pockets. Then in La Mesa for a while: new home with four other young people. All had jobs, but kid that had the master suite kept three large Hefty bags full of homegrown in his closet--go in, take a handful, no problem . . . But now out of that fog, happily back in the midwest.
Most people like u and me grow out of that stuff, but not this ditzy chick. (Or mebbe she's just young)
Just for old times sake: 'Marin county, wow! Gnarly, cool (etc.)'
Hang in there (and see tag line)
NARAL, the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League......Sounds impressive....Not!
I think she might be feeling a little guilty about something, something which would twist her reality upside down in a terrible if she were to accept it. She is to be pitied if my instincts are correct.
They are "extreme"ly "naral"-minded, opposing a mainstream (by historical standards) judge like Roberts.
I caught that too, and winced a little as he said it. Cut the guy some slack though. In the big picture I have a very good feeling about this man, and will be praying for him, for wisdom and grace. Don't give up just five hours after his nomination.
L.O.L...women with hards on to kill men perhaps??......
Its not Roberts that I don't trust, its Dubya..
I haven't trusted him from the beginning but hoped I was wrong..
A nominated Supreme that thinks the U.S. is a democracy is a liability..
And the President that nominated him is a potential malefactor as well..
Bush has had quite a few benefits of the doubt from me already..
And I'm fresh out..
This is a joke,right?
Look at the COUNTY MAP of the US and you will see that the US is a virtual sea of red counties with pockets of blue, mostly in areas of poverty and urban blight.
One can hope!
Because the left thinks he's a legislator..
Talk about the left's SICs (Single Issue Voters)! This is gonna set new records for hysteria and hyperbole! :-)
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