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Justices Roberts and Kavanaugh Betray Pro-Lifers. As Expected
Creative Minority Report ^ | December 10, 2018 | Matthew Archbold

Posted on 12/10/2018 4:38:46 PM PST by ebb tide

Justices Roberts and Kavanaugh Betray Pro-Lifers. As Expected

Come on. Who didn't see this coming?

After all the push and fighting pro-lifers did to make sure Robert Kavanaugh took a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, how could we not have expected to be betrayed as soon as possible? Roberts is Roberts. I mean, that ship has sailed. He's on the organ donor waiting list for the first spine transplant.


CNN:
The Supreme Court Monday rebuffed efforts by states to block funding to Planned Parenthood.

It left in place two lower court opinions that said that states violate federal law when they terminate Medicaid contracts with Planned Parenthood affiliates who offer preventive care for low income women.
It would have taken four justices to agree to hear the issue, and only three conservative justices -- Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch -- voted to hear the case.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh appeared to side with the court's liberals in not taking up the case -- showing an effort to avoid high-profile abortion-related issues for now.

Roberts and Kavanaugh "likely have serious objections," said Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at the University of Texas School of Law. "But such votes seem to be a signal that they would rather avoid contentious, high-profile disputes for now, at least where possible."
Even CNN can't come up with some constitutionalist argument to support their pro-abort brethren. All they've got is that Roberts and Kavanaugh want to avoid "contentious, high profile disputes." Uhm, what did they think the Supreme Court did? Its actual role is to settle disputes of the contentious variety.

Justice Clarence Thomas pretty much called them wusses in his dissent. "What explains the Court's refusal to do its job here?" Thomas wrote.
"I suspect it has something to do with the fact that some respondents in these cases are named Planned Parenthood."

I wrote a book called "Faith Under Fire: Dramatic Stories of Christian Courage." Let's just say these two wouldn't qualify.

So, it turns out that Planned Parenthood has a right to taxpayer money. At least until we see how that spine transplant turns out.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; contraception; kavanaugh; pp; ppjusticekavanaugh; ppjusticeroberts; ppjusticethomas; ppscotus
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To: ebb tide

Too bad Ted Cruz isn’t on the court.


21 posted on 12/10/2018 4:58:25 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Digger; Pinkbell

Yep (I feel sick!)


22 posted on 12/10/2018 5:00:31 PM PST by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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To: Alberta's Child

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>> “The Supreme Court has apparently left standing two opposing decisions in different cases.” <<

Awww, who is looking?


23 posted on 12/10/2018 5:02:29 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Ann Archy

But they are par for the laity, and have been since the sixties.


24 posted on 12/10/2018 5:03:00 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: ebb tide

He’s been compromised. The way to change this country is to control the courts. Evil owns them. We thought with the Senate majority and a pro-life president things would change. Not gonna happen. The DS’s power that will never be stopped.


25 posted on 12/10/2018 5:03:36 PM PST by Terry Mross
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To: ebb tide
CNN + a mind-blogging ignorance of cert from #FakeNews and the blogger who stepped in it + a book pimping.

What could go wrong...

26 posted on 12/10/2018 5:05:48 PM PST by StAnDeliver ("Mueller personally delivered US uranium to Russia.")
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To: Pinkbell

If it was an actual strategy, our friends on the SCOTUS would have also done it.

This is treachery. But it’s not unusual from those who Trump surrounds himself with.

I really, really really really wish Trump would let the good people in. He just keeps appointing these swamp critters.


27 posted on 12/10/2018 5:07:00 PM PST by Celerity
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To: Vermont Lt

Jesuits??? How important?


28 posted on 12/10/2018 5:09:07 PM PST by codder too
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To: Celerity

Kav got bad light in hearings from the media, now he wants them to like him.


29 posted on 12/10/2018 5:09:39 PM PST by inchworm
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To: ebb tide

This is un-possible. We had all those wimmenses pounding on the door to the supreme court telling us we needed to impeach Kavanaugh because he was single handedly going to make abortion illegal all across the galaxy.


30 posted on 12/10/2018 5:10:43 PM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: ebb tide

Never trusted his over the top female favoritism along with the Catholic SJW advocacy.


31 posted on 12/10/2018 5:12:48 PM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: ebb tide

Kavanaugh? As expected?

Where was it previously said he was not Pro-Life?

I missed that part of the confirmation.


32 posted on 12/10/2018 5:15:49 PM PST by CharleysPride (Peace, Freedom and Prosperity. Thank you, President Trump.)
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To: Pinkbell

It’s become a rhetorical weapon to use in beating others about their logical, argumental heads.


33 posted on 12/10/2018 5:16:49 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Vermont Lt

I think the left hoodwinked us with their Kavanaugh outrage. Many knew what kind of justice he would be just as Roberts has turned out to be. The circus hearings were meant to pump up the “blue wave”. The left Alinski us like a violin.


34 posted on 12/10/2018 5:20:27 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Celerity

If it were good strategery, the four Stalininst/Maoist/PolPotists/Fachists would have voted to take the case, so they could make new Law on this issue for a Decade.


35 posted on 12/10/2018 5:21:55 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: ebb tide

so far, ONLY Pres. Trump can be trusted.
the judiciary, the DOJ, the corrupt FBI,
the clowns, and the GOP are weasels like no-name.


36 posted on 12/10/2018 5:22:24 PM PST by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: ebb tide

Unless you know the details of the case, realize that there may be good reason for SCOTUS to not take _that_ case in particular. Rulings must be very precise, and bad cases lead to bad precedent.


37 posted on 12/10/2018 5:27:13 PM PST by ctdonath2 (The Red Queen wasn't kidding.)
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To: ebb tide

Not only wasn’t there any decision here, this wasn’t a even case about funding PP. This was a case about standing, and whether supporters of PP could maintain a lawsuit.

The question before the Supreme Court WAS NOT whether States could withhold funding from PP. The question was whether individuals can bring a lawsuit Under the Medicaid Act.

People who don’t know the law really shouldn’t spread CNN propaganda.


38 posted on 12/10/2018 5:28:09 PM PST by TexasGurl24
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To: ebb tide

Kavanaugh is as conventional and conformist as the day is long. I had no doubt of his innocence in the alleged sexual assault affair, because I knew perfectly well that he didn’t have the imagination to sexually assault a woman.


39 posted on 12/10/2018 5:31:29 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: ctdonath2; TexasGurl24
Rulings must be very precise, and bad cases lead to bad precedent.

Like Roe vs Wade which Kavanaugh has already stated, during his confirmation, was a precedent that he would not overturn?

40 posted on 12/10/2018 5:34:36 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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