Posted on 02/05/2016 10:11:13 AM PST by wagglebee
DERRY, NH, February 5, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) - Hillary Clinton has a litmus test for Supreme Court nominees - several, in fact. At a Democratic event on Wednesday, Clinton unveiled her criteria in selecting a judge for the nation's highest court.
“I do have a litmus test, I have a bunch of litmus tests," she said.
"We’ve got to make sure to preserve Roe v. Wade, not let it be nibbled away or repealed,” she said.
There have been over 58,000,000 abortions since the 1973 court ruling legalizing abortion in all 50 states, according to National Right to Life.
That echoes her recent call to arms speech before Planned Parenthood last month, when she stated that taxpayers must fund abortion-on-demand in order to uphold the "right" of choice.
“We have to preserve marriage equality,” Clinton said, referring to last summer's Obergefell v. Hodges case, a 5-4 ruling that redefined marriage nationwide. “We have to go further to end discrimination against the LGBT community."
Her views differentiate her from the Republican front runners. Ted Cruz has called the court's marriage ruling "fundamentally illegitimate," and Donald Trump told Fox News Sunday this week that he would "be very strong on putting certain judges on the bench that I think maybe could change things." Marco Rubio has said he won't "concede" the issue to the one-vote majority.
All Republican presidential hopefuls say they are pro-life and will defund Planned Parenthood.
Her husband, Bill Clinton, raised the makeup of the Supreme Court early last month in New Hampshire, saying it receives "almost no attention" as a campaign issue.
On Wednesday, Hillary said "the next president could get as many as three appointments. It’s one of the many reasons why we can’t turn the White House over to the Republicans again.”
Clinton said her judicial appointees must also reverse the Citizens United ruling on campaign finance and oppose a recent decision striking down a portion of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. In 2013's Shelby County v. Holder, justices struck down Section 4(b) of the act, which said that certain states and jurisdictions had to obtain permission from the federal government before changing their voting laws.
At one time, most politicians frowned upon any "litmus test" for judicial nominees, emphasizing the independence of the third branch of government. "I don't believe in litmus tests," Jeb Bush told Chuck Todd last November.
But with the rise of an activist judiciary in the middle of the 20th century, constitutionalists have sought to rein in the power of the bench.
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The foremost litmus test is that the Constitution is whatever so-called “progressives” want it to be so that they can puts their mad schemes.
Republicans are not allowed litmus tests.
Question: Anyone know what the litmus test should REALLY be? Seriously?
Kill the babies and open the borders. Worked out well in Western Europe.
For one, if they know anything at all about the Constitution, they're disqualified.
There is no mention of how much Hillary will charge for each Supreme Court seat. So the list is obviously incomplete.
The Constitution, but beyond that:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
Contributions to the Clinton Foundation would definitely be a factor.
A cross between Ma Barker, Boss Hogg and Ernst Rohm.
If 58,000,000 isn’t GENOCIDE, I don’t know what is.
The amazing thing is that they are doing to themselves.
-Question: Anyone know what the litmus test should REALLY be? Seriously?-
The Supreme Court was designed to determine whether legislation passed by Congress was allowed under the constitution. It has, however, become its own ruling body, finding -rights- that are outside what the Founders intended. This has been going on for a long, long time. I do not see a path back to the original purpose. However, a good start would be to term limit the judges. Honestly, it is astonishing some of them can live to tomorrow, lrt alone decide the constitutionality of laws.
I take it her picks use scalpels as pens.
Judges MUST want to kill unborn.
This is more important than freedom. The most important thing in the world to Hillary is ABORTION. Judges are to be brilliant slaves to the constitution, abortion is not mentioned in the constitution, and this is still issue number one, to kill inconvenient babies so that adults can have orgasms any time they want with anyone including young teen girls.
Does anyone really think about this? Killing babies is more important to her than anything in the constitution that needs protecting.
Scary looking Feminist judges who support abortion-on-demand up until the baby enters first grade.
The Senate GOP would confirm them too.
My litmus test is this:
If you can find Gay Marriage and Abortion in the Constitution, but nothing in the Bill of Rights about bearing arms, I don’t want you on the bench, hell, i don’t even want you in my country.
The first litmus test she conceived of politically was when she was on the committee working to impeach Nixon. She worked to make sure Nixon was not allowed a lawyer to represent him during his impeachment trial. A clear no-no constitutionally, and she got fired from the committee for it.
Her second political litmus test was the very day she and her husband became president of the United States, she handed him five executive orders to sign which only had to do with abortion.
All of her litmus tests seems to point to the fact that she is allergic to the Constitution.
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