Posted on 05/03/2008 7:16:41 AM PDT by Darren McCarty
The controversial Roe v. Wade abortion-rights ruling will be overturned if John McCain is elected president, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin told a Baton Rouge audience Friday.
“It’s gone,” Toobin, also a legal affairs staff writer at The New Yorker, said after giving a speech about the U.S. Supreme Court at LSU’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center.
“Maybe not during his first year or second year, but it will be overturned,” Toobin said of the possible election of McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and a U.S. senator for Arizona.
Toobin said overturning the case won’t mean all 50 states will outlaw abortion, but many of the so-called “red states,” or more-conservative states, would adopt abortion bans.
“We’re talking maybe 15 to 20 states, including this one,” Toobin said of Louisiana.
“But you will still have no change in states like California, New York and Illinois,” he said.
Toobin is the author of the 2007 book “The Nine — Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court.”
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I do know that Obama and Hillary will appoint leftist judges. McCain at least voted for Roberts and Alito.
Note to CNN, Please rephrase this sentence. It has been used since 1980 with Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Robert Dole, and George W. Bush inserted in place of McCain.
Is there no original thought left @ CNN???
Not as long as the Democrats hold the Senate. Even 55-45 (R) there was a lot of difficulty overcoming filibusters.
Roe v Wade overturned means democracy wins.
Toobin was one of those ambulance chasing “experts” during the OJ case that appeared ad nauseum on TV. Now he has become an expert on everything. His opinion means nothing.
True, true... but we can all still dream, right?
Democrats “fear mongering”.
What, didn’t you know that Republican Presidents could overturn laws and SCOTUS decisions? It’s only through the brave moral stands taken by liberal democrats that we have any rights left at all!
Mark
They forgot to mention that children will starve, the water will be polluted, and that senior citizens will have to eat dog food to survive.
Actually, this time they have a point. Two liberal justices will probably not last another term. Not sure McCain could get a real conservative on the court, but anything he got in would be an upgrade to Ginsburg. This is the most conservative court in my lifetime and conservatives have a 15 year youth advantage on the liberals. Conservatives are in great shape in we can keep the Dems out of the White House, where they could reload the court with liberal youth.
No, it means our representative republican form of government wins. "Democracy" helps keep ROE vs. Wade intact.
It would be worth voting for McCain to have Roe overturned.
I don’t know...McCain is liable to put Obama, Hillary, or Bubba on the Court in order to maintain his “maverick” credentials.
(A) Roe v. Wade was bad legal decision. But then the courts have the agenda and need an excuse to acheive the ends.
(B) The court would (i) need a case to hear to bring challenge to the previous decision, and (ii) need “conservative” appointments seated by Congress. If the Republicans couldn’t acheive that goal WHEN THEY RAN CONGRESS, they aren’t likely to get it through under McCain who is to the left of Bush.
(C) Ultimately it will take a Constitutional Amendment against abortion to take this issue out of the hands of activist judges and politicians. There is a consititional amendment to prohibit slavery even though our Constitution speaks of freedoms and rights. Adding an Amendment to the Constitution to protect the lives of ALL Americans does not concede that abortion was “constitutional”, it forever declares (until an amendment to repeal) that abortion is specifically UNCONSTITUIONAL.
It is a shame and tragic that there have been upwards of 50million abortions in our country. THAT is our citizenry that has been terminated “necessitating” the importation of new migrant workers who owe allegiance and their paychecks to their homelands. Mexico even encourages them to vote in both countries.
I say take the issue out of the hands of politicians who “promise”, as they have done for 30 years, to hold “the right position” on abortion. Abortion may be the law of the land but no law says my tax dollars have to go to it and Congress hasn’t even done away with that.
This is a wedge issue that the Democrats and Republicans both use. In the end abortion remains so the liberals win on it. And they get my tax money to kill babies.
Perhaps, but one of the few things McCain has been promising conservatives is appointing conservative judges. McCain is a lot of things (many not so good), but he is usually a man of his word.
Is anyone stupid enough to think McCain cares about abortion? He will put whoever his handlers tell him to put on the court.
Which American voters does this prospect upset?
Toobin and his ilk, would like us to believe this relieves us of “poor, fatherless kids. (can you say “eugenics”?)
In fact abortion largely preserves the selfish and irresponsible behavior of the very young and the middle and upper class in America.
God save us from the Leftists.
Hit one on the nose, of course but even a stopped clock is right two times a day!
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