Posted on 01/20/2016 3:38:22 PM PST by JSDude1
When Ben Carson was rising in the polls, Donald Trump was quick to attack the former neurosurgeon for being "pro-abortion not so long ago."
The attack was more than a bit hypocritical because Trump himself was "very" pro-abortion not so long ago. In 1999, Tim Russert asked Trump if he would support a ban on "abortion in the third-trimester" or "partial-birth abortion."
"No," Trump replied. "I am pro-choice in every respect." Trump explained his views may be the result of his "New York background." Now that Ted Cruz has attacked Trump's "New York values," Trump's views on abortion will be getting a second look by many Republican voters.
During the first Republican presidential debate, Trump explained that he "evolved" on the issue at some unknown point in the last 16 years. "Friends of mine years ago were going to have a child, and it was going to be aborted. And it wasn't aborted. And that child today is a total superstar, a great, great child. And I saw that. And I saw other instances," Trump said. "I am very, very proud to say that I am pro-life."
When the Daily Caller's Jamie Weinstein asked Trump if he would have become pro-life if that child had been a loser instead of a "total superstar," Trump replied: "Probably not, but I've never thought of it. I would say no, but in this case it was an easy one because he's such an outstanding person."
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I have no idea who any of them would nominate, and I further have no idea which of them, if any, the senate would confirm.
Quite frankly, I’d be just fine with no more SCOTUS at all.
“We have a pretty good idea what’s in Cruz’s heart.”
No you don’t. Your a fool...
Funny, I would have expected him to tell Mark Halperin that his sister, a federal judge, would be a craptacular SCOTUS judge.
Worst SCTOUS judge ever in fact.
My sister would STINK as a Justice, Mark.
I can’t believe he didn’t say that instead.
If my sister supported partial birth abortions, I’d say it.
That is only partly true.
If the court determines something is unconstitutional, like their claim on gay marriage, the legislature is blocked from going forward with it.
If the decision is based on how a particular is written, the legislature can change how it’s written and fix it.
Thank you for being so civil...
Regarding being a fool, one of us is.
Time will tell.
History isn’t in your favor.
Sorry, that was supposed to be “... on how a particular law is written ...”
Just last summer Donald Trump said before defunding Planned Parenthood, we should look at their “good aspects.â€
Donald Trump would pick a pro-eminent domain judge before he would pick a pro-Constitutional judge who respects LIFE, liberty...........
Bush wasn’t exactly a conservative either, unlike Cruz.
Your right Donald Trump really is the Rorschach candidate for many, problem is I don’t trust the test!
No.
Well, that’s your business then.
I don’t want to “roll the dice” (as I and many did during the Bush years),’ I want a solidly originalist/constitutional court such as we KNOW we’d
have under Cruz.
“If the court determines something is unconstitutional, like their claim on gay marriage, the legislature is blocked from going forward with it.”
According to whom? The court?
Courts cannot write law. Only legislatures can write law. Look it up.
The court is required to block laws that are unconstitutional when that law is brought before it. They get the final say unless you change the constitution. Look it up...
“I want a solidly originalist/constitutional court such as we KNOW we’d have under Cruz.”
An originalist/constitutional court would issue opinions. Period. Exclamation point. I wish that Cruz would issue a statement that courts write opinions, not legally binding diktates. If we want to re-establish our constitutional republic, than Cruz needs to make the statement that the USSC is a body that writes opinions, not law.
It is a NY value, as explained by NY Governor Andrew Cuomo.
” if Governor Andrew Cuomo had his way, he’s prefer it to say “ever liberal”. He recently told conservative Republicans – specifically anyone who is pro-traditional marriage, pro-life or pro-guns – they “have no place in the state of New York”.”
Sure and I’d like Trump to make the same declaration..
“Sure and I’d like Trump to make the same declaration..”
Me, too. Somebody - Cruz or Trump - has to get our country back under control. We can’t have unelected judges and executive branch bureaucrats writing law. It’s totally unconstitutional.
This is good. We have you and me agreeing that the situation is currently untenable for a constitutional republic. That’s two. Let’s try to double that number. You ready?
Do people think he will give us more abortion than we have now? How can a president stop abortion? Reagan couldn’t stop it and now in fact it is far more widespread.
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