Posted on 03/06/2009 9:15:49 AM PST by EternalVigilance
In a move that should give social conservatives great pause, Governor Sarah Palin has appointed a former board member of Planned Parenthood to the Alaska State Supreme Court.
Palin appointed Anchorage Superior Court Judge Morgan Christen to the state’s highest court on Wednesday. Along with Christen’s former board member status with Planned Parenthood.
There is no disputing Palin’s appointment of Christen will cause the Alaska Supreme to lean left and will ensure a more activist court when it comes to gay marriage, and abortion. The Christen appointment is key because she replaces justice Warren Mathews, one of the dissenting votes striking down the parental consent legislation.
The Governor, who early on won the support of Alaska liberals after she pushed through an enormous, unprecedented tax increase on the oil industry, seems to be back in their good graces with this appointment.
ADN liberal bloggers responded to Palin’s Supreme Court appointment writing,
“Ohmigawd!??The governor's been taken over by space aliens.??What an improvement!”
“Wow. Way to go Palin! I can't believe I just said that. But hey, credit where credit is due.”
“Glad to see a woman in the position to balance out the court. Good for Palin for keeping bible thumper beliefs out of the court system and honoring the separation of Church and State.”
“This is the one good action that Sarah Palin has taken over the past three years. And I have no problem admitting it. Great pick!!!! So even if the wing-nut parental consent bill passes, the state Supremes now have enough votes to overturn it as unconstitutional.”
Granted Palin would have had to put up a fight to block the appointment of the far left Christen to the court. Under Alaska law the judicial council made up mostly of liberal lawyers gets to filter out candidates who do not hold a leftist background. The governor must pick from the names forwarded.
But former governor Frank Murkowski during his term fought the process and at first refused to name any of the names submitted to him. The liberal media beat him up pretty bad over it and he eventually caved.
If Governor Palin would have taken on this fight, it probably would have ended up in court. If she had taken up the fight and asked for all the candidates’ names that applied to be forwarded, it would have brought to the public’s attention that trial lawyers control the third branch of government in Alaska. But with the governor refusing to spend any political capital on this issue, it is sure to disappear from Alaska’s political landscape.
The governor caving into trial lawyers also guarantees an activist court will continue to push its agenda on the people of Alaska. It will continue to stand between you and your child, continue to redefine marriage and block development.
Palin appointing Christen kills any move by the legislature to pass parental consent legislation. The new court with Christen on it will surely strike down any new laws. This is one of the reason Palin’s caving is confusing. Just recently held a news conference standing side by side with conservative lawmakers sponsoring new parental consent legislation.
Refusing to fight for parental consent laws is risky for Palin. It clearly will help her avoid controversy from the liberal media. But conservatives supporting her won't like the fact she appointed a former Planned Parenthood board member to Alaska’s highest court.
Many of the governor’s conservative supporters have ignored her high taxes and liberal anti free market policies. They support her simply because she says she is pro-life and is open about her faith. But the Christen appointment proves that while the governor lives the pro-life message in her personal life, she is not willing to spend political capital on the issue in her political life.
I could care less about Fagan. This isn’t about him in any way. He’s not the Governor of Alaska, or the darling of misguided Republican conservatives.
And, you don’t demand those you support be principled and not put their stamp approval on liberal justices. She HAD a choice — to pick NEITHER of these liberal justices and let the Alaskan Judicial Council make the pick. Nor she her record is stained with picking a pro-abortion, leftist judge.
He is the one repeating the charge without even the slightest fact checking.. You are putting your faith in his research.
Your stated view of the facts of the matter self-identify you, then. I’m glad.
Hogwash.
A FReeper posted this on a related thread and I felt it was good to repeat here:
This is nothing but a well designed execution of part of Alinsky’s plan to use your opponents creed against them.
Be ready for more the same to breed discontent and divide Palin’s support.
She is walking in a perpetual, electoral minefield simply by exercising effective government for the state of Alaska.
Take these words to heart . . .
———— dare to cheat, dare to win ————
. . . this is the one constant you can count on from the marxist opposition.
LOL!!! Meee Tooo! And How!
Better duck, there'll be a zillion star struck Palinites trying to defend this now.
Hey, something I can agree with. Unfortunately, it is clear that you don't care about Fagan -- as long as you can use his lies to smear someone you have decided fails your purity test, you really don't care that he's lying or what his motivations for doing so are.
This is nothing but a well designed execution of part of Alinsky’s plan to use your opponents creed against them.
Be ready for more of the same to breed discontent and divide Palin’s support.
She is walking in a perpetual, electoral minefield simply by exercising effective government for the state of Alaska.
Take these words to heart . . .
———— dare to cheat, dare to win ————
. . . this is the one constant you can count on from the marxist opposition.
thaDeetz
* The head of the Alaska Family Council -- a Christian pro-family, anti-abortion group -- on Wednesday sent an e-mail to thousands of people asking them to urge Palin to pick Smith, not Christen.
* The group didn't really approve of either finalist
Sarah Palin did what she swore to uphold upon becoming governor of Alaska. Anyone doubting her pro-life, let alone pro-conservative, values is a despicable slanderer.
No surprise the feckless cretins at the AIP wish to propagate this smear campaign. When a 'party' has to scratch and claw to garner even .005% of the popular vote I'd reckon they'd do anything, no matter how sinister, to besmirch authentic and endeared pols such as Sarah Palin.
Your entire post negates natural law and what the Founders called self-evident truth: That our right to life comes from our Creator, and that the protection of such is the very purpose of government.
Thatt’s the Stephen A. Douglas Democrat, Gerald R. Ford Republican, position, which the polar opposite of the Reagan pro-life plank that to this day remains in the Republican Party platform, even though Republican leaders completely abrogate it en masse.
Really? Did you look at the candidate applications before you posted this? Did you look up Christen to see what other groups/sites are saying about her? Did you check into the history of the group that Christen was on the board of to see if they where what was claimed? Did you check to see if this so called pro-life group was legitimate, including cross referencing any associations? Did you check to see what other pro-life groups said about this and Christen? You'll notice that FReepers did all of this on the other thread that is linked above.. we didn't knee jerk, we dug..
OR....
Did you find or receive this article and just post it because it fit your template?
I’m not “using his lies.” I’m simply reporting that Governor Palin just appointed someone who is going to continue the destruction of the very moral basis of our free republic. If you can’t live with that, tough.
Let's see... you're claiming Christen is a former PP board member (false) and is pro-abortion (unproven/unknown) on the basis of Fagan's article. So, yes, you are using his lies, and doing so blindly because they advance your agenda.
The ends do not justify the means.
Once in the blue moon you get one right. Big Whoop.
That’s my point!
The people of today’s country have lost SIGHT of natural law and the intentions of our Founders! Why do you think we have Barack Obama in the White House?!
Your position of ideological purity is fine and dandy, but the states’ rights position of overturning Roe v. Wade will result in LESS abortions, FASTER. AND IT DOES NOT EXCLUDE RETURNING TO A PREDOMINANT VIEW OF NATURAL LAW, AS IT SHOULD BE.
What don’t you get about that? We currently have people excepting of the idea that we can be judge, jury, and executioner of the unborn. It’s an idea backed up by decades of liberal indoctrination!
Until we can fix that, your position of ideological purity on this matter will change NOTHING. And more unborn babies will die.
Pro-Life is Pro-Life. I’m not going to exclude someone who pursues overturning Roe v. Wade to let the states decide as being pro-choice. It’s ridiculous and counterproductive.
Sounds like the choices that the American voter had last election.
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