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Posted on 05/16/2019 11:51:02 AM PDT by jazusamo
WASHINGTON – The Senate on Thursday confirmed Wendy Vitter’s appointment to the federal bench as Republicans overcame strong opposition from Democrats who criticized the nominee’s stand against abortion.
Maine Sen. Susan Collins was the only Republican to join Democrats and independents in opposing Vitter’s nomination, in the 52-to-45 vote.
Vitter has been waiting for confirmation since President Donald Trump nominated her for a U.S. District Court seat in New Orleans nearly 18 months ago. The nomination expired in the last session of the Senate with no action. A former prosecutor, Vitter has served more recently as general counsel for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans.
“Ms. Vitter’s impressive legal career includes experience in private practice and a decade in the New Orleans Parish district attorney’s office, where she handled more than 100 felony jury trials,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Thursday in arguing for Vitter’s confirmation.
Vitter stands as the 107th judge confirmed since Trump took office in January 2017, as he and McConnell have pushed to remake the courts, installing conservatives who will serve for years. Under Trump, the Republican-led Senate has confirmed two Supreme Court justices, 40 circuit court judges and 65 district court judges.
Vitter drew ire from Democrats after a judicial watchdog group found statements she had made against abortion that were not included in the extensive background disclosure forms she was required to provide to the Senate.
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Vitter has served more recently as general counsel for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans.
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Wow, that is a fulltime job these days.
Sadly, that is likely true.
Susan Collins is a pill.
What are you implying? Do you know something, or are you just trying to make hip-sounding noises?
Yeah, being general counsel for an entity that owns extensive property, has multiple operating entities, and employs hundreds of (mostly lay) people is a full time job. So what?
“Susan Collins is a pill.”
That was the polite term my Mom used to use all the time. That understates it a million-fold.
A very good sign...
I was responding to someone else’s post. I have no personal knowledge about anything. The poster I was responded to was implying that there may have been sexual abuse going on. The New Orleans Archdiocese admits it.
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It’s always a full-time job. A Catholic diocese in the USA oversees dozens of parish churches, elementary schools, high schools, charitable works of various sorts, employment of hundreds or thousands of people from building maintenance men to the Bishop, contracts with utilities, builders, and suppliers … having a few top-notch lawyers on staff is absolutely essential, particularly in the very litigious USA.
Does age come in to play here?
I would like to see her stay in the position for a long time.
Sen. Patty Murray said that was "dangerous rhetoric."
Apparently the crushing and dismemberment isn't so bad, it's the "rhetoric" that'll kill ya.
That was the polite term my Mom used to use all the time. That understates it a million-fold.
We used to use the phrase back in the 60’s.
It’s a fun way of saying something bad. :)
A cyanide pill to be specific.
Funny, rhetoric was a mandatory part of my education.
Crushing and dismembering babies must have been an elective.
I was just implying that the Catholics need a big team of lawyers since there are so many pedophile lawsuits against them these days. That was all that I meant by my post.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Patriots are reminded that even if all Supreme Court justices were pro-abortion, it remains, since the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect having an abortion as a right, that abortion remains a state power issue, not the business of the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification feds.
In other words, and with all due respect to the family and friends of the late Terri Schiavo, the Supremes should have sent Roe v. Wade (Roe) back to the states as a state power issue just like they did in Terri’s case imo.
Comparing Roe with Terri’s case, the misguided, post-FDR era Supreme Court is showing double-standards with respect to state sovereignty imo.
In fact, using inappropriate terms like "concept" and "implicit" here is what was left of the 10th Amendment-protected state sovereignty after FDR's justices got finished with it in Wickard v. Filburn.
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
"In discussion and decision, the point of reference, instead of being what was "necessary and proper" to the exercise by Congress of its granted power, was often some concept [???] of sovereignty thought to be implicit [??? emphases added] in the status of statehood." —Wickard v. Filburn, 1942.
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MAGA!
Insights welcome.
She is 58, but that means nothing, except if she is healthy and not accident prone she probably has a good chance of being there for awhile. But accidents & illnesses happen that can change one’s life in the blink of an eye.
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