Justice John Paul Stevens Announces His Retirement. We Need a Pro-Life Justice

Catholic Online ^ | 4/10/10 | Deacon Keith Fournier

[tcg]

On Friday, April 9, 2010 a significant retirement announcement made the National news, Justice John Paul Stephens is leaving the bench. His departure must be a rallying cry for all those who recognize the true fundamental human rights issue of our age, the right to life from conception to natural death.

Justice Stevens is by all accounts a gentleman and an intellectual. His demeanor has earned him the respect and admiration of many, including his colleagues on the bench who disagreed with many of his judicial opinions. The most notably wrong among those opinions was his support of the majority in the horrendous 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood v Casey. In that case the Court left in place the egregious holding foisted upon the Nation in the opinions of Roe and Doe, essentially denying the preeminent and fundamental human Right to Life to an entire class of persons, our youngest neighbors, children in the womb.

Two sentences from that horrid opinion call to light the fundamental failure of the current Jurisprudence which is undermining true liberty in of our Nation, "At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life. Beliefs about these matters could not define the attributes of personhood were they formed under compulsion of the State." Talk about what Pope Benedict rightly identified as the "Dictatorship of Relativism"! ...

There can be no doubt of how the supporters of killing children in the womb under the newspeak pretext of "choice"- and having it protected as a "right" by the Police Power of the State - consider Justice Stevens' significance. ...

[tcg]

The "800 pound Gorilla" in the room in the coming selection and appointment of a replacement for Justice John Paul Stevens is this legal construct called an "Abortion Right." Its' manufacture by the Supreme Court out of what it called the "penumbra" of the 14th Amendment began the current Cultural Revolution in the United States. The "Culture of Death" it unleashed has spread throughout the West. It also set up the ongoing misuse of the 14th Amendment´s "Equal Protection of the Law" as a cover for what amounts to a radical remaking of the culture through judicial opinions.

[OCCASparky]

Pro-life justice under Obama? Good luck with that.

[fatnotlazy]

We need a pro-life justice.”

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Good luck with that. If the nomination goes through before the November elections, we will be stuck with yet another of Obama’s atheist/agnostic/marxist cronies.

[muawiyah]

The Acolytes of the Anti-Christ can't see far into the future. You'll notice that Obama appears unable to anticipate much of anything beyond the next party, and certainly has no idea what may happen as other "nuclear powers" hire non-nuclear powers to levy war against our interests abroad ~ that's just way beyond what he, or they, can imagine.

Here that gives us, the people, an edge. Obama cannot possibly anticipate what someone is going to do on the USSC, even though he figures he does have some idea based on their personal ideologies and their affiliations with such groups as "women", "young", "university", "professor", "left wing stuff", "Union Member parent", and so forth.

Not all of 'em are whack jobs ~

[random_user_827]

Justice John Paul Stevens Announces His Retirement. We Need a Pro-Life Justice

I wouldn't hold my breath...

[bahblahbah]

It’s not going to happen... and you don’t need a “pro-life” justice... you just need one who things Roe was a terrible decision worthy of being reversed so it can be resolved legislatively...

[mkjessup]

We Need a Pro-Life Justice

We do indeed, but what we need and want, and what we're going to get from this illegal 0bamunist regime are two different things.

If George Tiller hadn't been off'd by Scott Roeder, Tiller being an enthusiastic baby-killer like 0bama, would be on the short list to fill the vacancy.

[raybbr]

Poor Deacon Fournier, wasting all his talents on this. Obama would sooner appoint a monkey than a pro-lifer.

[alloysteel]

“This is no time to go wobbly.”

What we need is a sufficiently honest and hard-headed minority in the Senate to filibuster EVERY nomination sent up by Resident (Pres_ent) Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., or Barry Soetoro, or Mr Michelle Robinson, or Sock-Puppet, supposedly the son of an out-of-control teenager and a Kenyan exchange student, until we have a nominee who will announce his (or her) intention to uphold the principles as would be expected of John Roberts, Samuel Alito, or Antonin Scalia.

One thing we may be sure of, nobody of that caliber will be offered by the now failing nascent obama regime. Therefore, the Supreme Court shall have to open next October with only EIGHT Justices on the seat, and we shall see either 4-4 unresolved results, or 5-3 highly decisive decisions.

If another Justice should step down, or be unable to fulfill the duties of the office, the court would then be reduced to seven members. The same provisions would hold, that the replacement for the now missing second member of the court be scrutinized at least as hard as the Democrats resisted confirmation of some of George W. Bush’s nominees.

Hardball cuts both ways.

[atomicweeder]

Here's what I fear might happen -- Obama will select a moderate, with less-than-liberal attitude about abortion. Then Dems in Senate will vote him/her down.

Then he'll appoint a radical and tell America "hey, I tried to put a conservative on the bench."

[Sudetenland]

I thought he already has

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Stevens was the only Protestant justice left on the Supreme Court.

Let's see if Obama makes it a complete shut-out for the Reformation.

Who could have imagined things would end up like this?

[ccmay]

We all need a pet unicorn that craps Skittles, too.

[Christian_Capitalist]

Stevens was the only Protestant justice left on the Supreme Court.

Well, in a manner of speaking. I'd say that Stevens was a PINO, but that sounds like an insult to a good red wine. (smirk)

[Drew68]

We Need a Pro-Life Justice

And I need to win the Powerball. The odds are about the same.

[italianquaker]

Why would odumbo want to punish women with a baby?

[italianquaker]

honestly there is no way odumbo would do this but people do win powerball

[P-Marlowe]

Stevens was the only Protestant justice left on the Supreme Court. Let's see if Obama makes it a complete shut-out for the Reformation.

Somehow I doubt that Stevens was a genuine "Reformation" Protestant.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

So leave the seat empty. I see no reason to allow Obama to appoint another activist.

[Mariner]

Don’t put it past Obama to appoint a pro-life Marxist.