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Former Bush AG on SCOTUS revisiting other rights: ‘they very well may go there’ (of course, Gonzales likes Roberts' opinion)
The Hill via Yahoo ^ | June 28, 2022 | Jared Gans

Posted on 07/01/2022 7:09:20 AM PDT by DoodleBob

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales (R) said the conservative members of the Supreme Court may look to review other current federally protected rights, such as access to contraception and same-sex relations, following the court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade

Gonzales, who led the Justice Department under former President George W. Bush, told CNN’s Kate Bolduan on Tuesday that Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned the constitutional right to abortion established in Roe, specifically emphasizes that the court’s decision should not be taken to put other rights at risk.

But Gonzales said the risk to other cases based on the right to privacy is something he would be concerned about.

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Gonzales said the best way to protect abortion rights is to push for a constitutional amendment at both the federal and state level or a federal law.

He said his philosophy is similar to that of Chief Justice John Roberts in terms of change. Roberts voted to uphold the Mississippi law that bans abortion at 15 weeks being considered in the Dobbs case but did not go as far as his conservative colleagues in voting to overturn Roe.(emphasis added)

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; dobbs; gonzales; prolife
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Absent any public comment from Bush, this is the clearest indication of how Dubya feels about Dobbs. It reminds me of my favorite Bush meme, coming out right after Trump won and Dubya started opening his big fat yapper.


1 posted on 07/01/2022 7:09:20 AM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

Alberto Gonzalez, the Harriet Miers of Attorney Generals.


2 posted on 07/01/2022 7:10:50 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: DoodleBob

Thats another MOFO who’s elevators didnt go all the way up and down.


3 posted on 07/01/2022 7:17:12 AM PDT by crz
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To: DoodleBob

It is the defeat of the pillar the US Supreme court has used to unlawfully defeat state laws; the penumbras and emanations , that will no longer be in effect. Federal rights created by a court aren’t rights at all. Humans have inalienable rights granted by God. The job of governments is to protect all of those rights and preventing wrongs.


4 posted on 07/01/2022 7:17:47 AM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: DoodleBob

Yea, the Bushes suck.


5 posted on 07/01/2022 7:19:16 AM PDT by stevio
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To: DoodleBob
"When you've got a precedent and society relies on it for a long period of time, there's certain expectations that arise," Gonzales said. "So, you know, it's a jolt to our system."

There's no doubt in my mind that this guy would have been a slave master in the 1850s ... or would have been arguing the winning side in the Dred Scott case.

6 posted on 07/01/2022 7:22:55 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: DoodleBob
The intellectual level of just about every analysis I've seen of the Dobbs, Bruen or EPA decisions is absolutely appalling.

Each case was well decided based on the Constitution and the law, but the actual legal arguments are almost never examined. They are all characterized as the Court being willful, "activist," or imposing its own judgment. Each decision is in fact based on closely argued readings of plain text and previous precedent in EPA.

I listened to Market Watch yesterday afternoon (the voice of globalism). Discussing the EPA decision, they had some law professor decrying with horror the possibility that SCOTUS might be reviving the pre-New Deal court-packing delegation doctrine, i.e., that there are limits to how much policy making power agencies have without clear legal authorization.

The most radical parts of both Dobbs and Bruen was the use of historical analysis: the SCOTUS is strongly suggesting that the only appropriate standard of Constitutional review is what would have been acceptable in the 19 century or pre-New Deal court. I can only hope this means a revival of the Commerce Clause as a restriction of Congressional authority. Maybe even a revival of Lochner.

The Left made it possible for everyone to accept that SCOTUS might create earthquakes in settled law: now it's biting them in the butt as SCOTUS seeks to restore a genuine interpretation of the Constitution and to strip away the unlawful accretion of power by Fedzilla and the states.

7 posted on 07/01/2022 7:25:52 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: cotton1706

Missing the point (as usual) and the MSM just parrots the bit.

RvW was bad law because it inferred a right — basically made it up. If something is not even alleged to in the Const as a right, it ain’t. That does not mean that congress cannot pass a law creating such.
But, in the RvW case a right was made up out of thin air and it was so politically incorrect to question it millions were murdered.

If the other issues do not depend upon a right made up as coming from the Const, then they will be OK. If there is a law affirming such right, they are bullet proof from the SCOTUS.


8 posted on 07/01/2022 7:26:05 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: DoodleBob

No more Bushes, no more Clintons, ever.


9 posted on 07/01/2022 7:29:07 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: DoodleBob

GW and Carter having institutes or “brain tanks” is a rather
disconcerting thing.

Neither of them has a freaking clue.

“Hey lets start an institute. There are lots of people out
there who need confusing.”


10 posted on 07/01/2022 7:36:24 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
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To: DoodleBob

the LEFT is arguing there is a God given right to murder your baby

it just aint so


11 posted on 07/01/2022 7:42:08 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: Alberta's Child

Boom. You nailed it 100%.

Now to get rid of Wickard v filburn


12 posted on 07/01/2022 7:54:56 AM PDT by Republican in occupied CA (I will not give up on my native State! Here I was born, here I fight and die!!)
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To: DoodleBob

Democrats passed socially-altering laws in places where they have a majority and then used the courts to nationalize those policies. The only thing being revisited is the tyranny of the minority on the majority. What isn’t a federal issue is being returned to localities where it belongs.


13 posted on 07/01/2022 7:59:11 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: bobbo666

The MSM seems to forget that the Demonrat party supported SC decisions that IGNORED rights enumerated in the Constitution.

Roe totally disregarded this right, just as the S C decision supporting slavery disregarded the “right to liberty”.
Today, the current crop of DEMONrats seem hell bent on urging people who are
MISERABLE to disregard and destroy their opponents “right to happiness”.


14 posted on 07/01/2022 8:04:20 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! There)
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To: stevio

ALL Bush League Republicans suck, including those still in office, like Grahamnesty, Tillis, Cornyn, Hoeven and Rubio who are still plotting to assist the Democrats to a permanent majority with amnesty for illegal aliens.


15 posted on 07/01/2022 8:08:48 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: milagro

In essence, the Left seems to support the pursuit of MISERY, not “happiness”.


16 posted on 07/01/2022 8:09:42 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! There)
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To: DoughtyOne
Neither of them has a freaking clue.

D1, you are giving them way too much credit or absolution.

They know what they are doing.

They have an agenda.

Its called Globalism and they intend to make government the same all over the world, and same in a way neither you nor I agree with or want.
17 posted on 07/01/2022 8:23:45 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: DoodleBob

Yeah, I don’t think please clap Jeb said anything either.


18 posted on 07/01/2022 8:27:51 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: SoConPubbie

It’s kind of a chicken and the egg thing. Which came first?

Were they idiots before they backed the One World Order,
or did they become idiots at the moment they backed it?

To my way of thinking, they are of course choosing to back
something we know will be very bad, but you’d have to be
an idiot not to see the pitfalls that come along with this
sort of thing.

These are the same folks who thought letting China
manufacture everything we need, would be a great idea.

They may see the downside up front, but they never quite
make the connection to how bad it really will be.


19 posted on 07/01/2022 8:44:13 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
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To: DoodleBob

Bring me to the Vomittorium because I want to PUKE.

Bush and all his minions exposed. The light has shined on the Bush Cockroaches.

Especially Roberts. Dirt bag freak show.

Roberts acts like he’s in the closet and someone knows about it.

Blackmail and extortion.


20 posted on 07/01/2022 8:45:50 AM PDT by Chuck N
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