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Posted on 02/26/2016 9:25:06 AM PST by for-q-clinton
During Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate, presidential candidate Donald Trump tried to defend previous comments about how he would potentially nominate his pro-abortion sister to the Supreme Court.
Trump has faced criticism in some quarters from pro-life voters who point to a past interview he gave about his sister, who is a pro-abortion attorney.
As National Review reported in 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.â€
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.â€
Trump eventually said he was joking about the comments.
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During the debate, Trump sought to respond to pro-life Senator Ted Cruz, who has brought up Trump’s comment as a criticism for the kind of judges he would appoint.
TRUMP: Now, Ted’s been very critical — I have a sister who’s a brilliant…
TRUMP: … excuse me. She’s a brilliant judge. He’s been criticizing — he’s been criticizing my sister for signing a certain bill. You know who else signed that bill? Justice Samuel Alito, a very conservative member of the Supreme Court, with my sister, signed that bill.
So I think that maybe we should get a little bit of an apology from Ted. What do you think?
Apart from the fact that judges do not sign bills into law, pro-life attorney Matt Bowman of Alliance Defending Freedom indicates Trump is wrong on the point and that Justice Alito, when he was a lower court justice, not only did not agree with Judge Maryanne Trump Barry on opposing a bill to ban partial-birth abortions he went out of his way to indicate how he disagreed with her.
While some pro-life voters were shocked that Trump continued to defend Planned Parenthood others are shocked that Trump would defend his sister’s support for partial-birth abortions by falsely maligning a pro-life Supreme Court Justice who went to great lengths to be on record opposing abortion.
I’m not I’m posting to re-assure like minded people to hang tough there are others out there.
That being the case, perhaps you should ping Trump-opposers instead.
They have drunk the Koolaid and only a special intervening antidote will open their minds enough to even imagine the truth.
True, but it’s fun to remind everyone how blind and stupid the trump supporters are. So we should ping both.
This is a really hard thing for me. I wouldn’t call myself a one issue voter, but I just can’t fathom having a conservative candidate that hasn’t always fought for the life of the unborn child.
I just imagine myself before God and him asking me what was more important than stopping this holocaust and all I could say is, “Well, you know, Trump was going to build a wall...”
I don't know whether to call myself a one-issue voter or not, but long ago I determined that I will never vote for a Democrat for anything, purely and simply because empowering Democrats guarantees abortion-on-demand, which I can never countenance.
During the debate, Trump also talked about how Alito "signed the same bill" as his sister did.
Judges do not sign bills. Legislators do. All that clown-like orange dye must have seeped into Trump's skull. Or maybe he simply does not understand how government works.
I know I saw the same thing. But trump supporters probably don’t know what that means anyway.
No candidate is 100% what I want.
You find the one that can win, and spend the time praying for the 5% that he’s not.
With Obama one has to pray for almost 100% of the time for the evil to go away.
With Trump I can find the time for the 5% to change.
You mean the 5% that includes lying about pro-life justices to try to justify his past pro-death remarks?
With Obama one has to pray for almost 100% of the time for the evil to go away.
Red herring - 0bama isn't running in the GOP primary.
Celebrity and Wealth are seductive forces.
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