Posted on 01/25/2010 11:34:34 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
This will drive libs apoplectic.
I think Stevens is going down this summer. Man’s 89 years old. Unless he wants to die at the bench, and many of them do, he’s got to retire sometime.
It does suggest that although Bush wasn’t perfect, he wasn’t the dunce he is made out to be either.
It IS worse than the holocaust. The only atrocities it compares to is Stalin’s reign of terror and Mao’s cultural revolution.
I could possibly see Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, and Alito voting to restore regulation of abortion to the states (i.e. refuting it as anything the federal government is empowered to regulate). That would not eliminate abortion, you can bet Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, California, etc would put an abortion law on the books within a month even if Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, etc might potentially ban it. But it would make it something you could debate within your community again, so that would be something.
The thing is, who is the 5th vote? Forget about Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Stevens, and Breyer. Kennedy might be the only possibility, though he seems to have come down on the side of placing precedent on a pedestal higher than the constitution itself on this issue.
Which is the way the Constitution reads. Anything else, is illegal.
Agreed. But still pray for changed hearts before changed laws...
Everytime I hear libs or those ignorant of our true history refer to our Founders strictly as 'slavemasters', I raise this point on abortion and usually the conversation goes silent.
It would make all the sense in the world, wouldn't it? But I remember listening to a court watcher say that he has a big ego and badly wants to be the oldest SCJ in history (maybe it was longest serving, I don't remember). This watcher really thinks he's going to hang on another three years.
He also thought Ginz would too, personally, I don't know about her health.
Roe v. Wade, minority set-assides, and ALL States' Rights rulings that have eroded the Constitutions' intent and meaning ALL need to be re-visited, and found Un-Constitutional, and correctly put us back on course, if it's not too late already.
If SCOTUS rules that life begins at conception, thre’s not a whole lot that the states can do.
“a gift that will keep on giving for conservatives for decades”
As long as someone doesn’t crank up the power on their seizure machine..
I doublt that it will be illegal by Federal law since the current fight is over whether the Federal government can make law allowing or disallowing abortion. Doing away with Rowe will send the decisions back to the states where it belongs under the constitution which does not address it in any way, shape or form.
If a State wanted to make abortion legal, it would at least be somewhat Constitutional. Then the voters of that State could deal with the sanctity of life and their own politicians.
Yes. As it should have been from the get go.
How do you like Roberts now, Ann Coulter?
They all believed Ted Kennedy when he said that overturning Roe v. Wade would lead to women being subjected to back-alley abortions.
Oh yes, I think it would. 10th amendment and all that. The thing is, we'd get a real patchwork quilt of abortion laws. In New York, abortion would probably be legal into the 3rd trimester, in Virginia maybe it would be legal in cases of rape or incest. In Texas maybe it would be illegal everywhere. So then people would go across state lines and eventually the Supremos would declare it was a matter of interstate commerce and regulate it anyway. A federally protected right to abortion is a sacred cow to liberals, they will not let it go.
That’s where it belongs...states...
10-4. I used to get grief as well but went ot the HTML help pages and learned about the /sarc switch although it is not a real command. Just put that at the end of your sarcastic comments and it eliminates the need for additional qualifiers.
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