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Hillary Clinton reveals her ‘litmus test’ for Supreme Court picks
LifeSiteNews ^ | 2/5/16 | Ben Johnson

Posted on 02/05/2016 10:11:13 AM PST by wagglebee

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To: wagglebee

Gosh, I’m shocked.


21 posted on 02/05/2016 10:28:14 AM PST by Cymbaline ("Allahu Akbar": Arabic for "Nothing To See Here" - Mark Steyn)
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To: tet68

And a portion of those babies would have grown up to be Democrat voters....wouldn’t even Hillary see that as important as importing them?


22 posted on 02/05/2016 10:31:23 AM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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To: tet68

The Nazis had to round up the people they objected to and ship off to camps. The Libs con them into believing that they have the right to kill their children and happily take themselves in to achieve the same result.


23 posted on 02/05/2016 10:37:29 AM PST by Lockbox
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To: Rurudyne
"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.'"

The guy talks like a third grader.

24 posted on 02/05/2016 10:38:19 AM PST by fwdude
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To: wagglebee
"I do have a litmus test, I have a bunch of litmus tests", she said.
They have to know how to find the little man in the boat.
25 posted on 02/05/2016 10:40:29 AM PST by Trillian
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To: fwdude

Obama is a very smooth talker. So is Cruz. So there you go.


26 posted on 02/05/2016 10:41:26 AM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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To: wagglebee

But wait a minute - If Republicans have litmus tests for their SCOTUS picks - OH NO, UH-UH, THAT’S A NO-NO.


27 posted on 02/05/2016 10:42:58 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: NJRighty

I have a litmus test for all liberal nominees. Put them all in a room with only a hose hooked to a running truck exhaust for ventilation. Those who turn blue have passed the litmus test.


28 posted on 02/05/2016 10:44:18 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: wagglebee
Does she mark “Worshiper of Molech” as her religion?
29 posted on 02/05/2016 10:46:13 AM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: fwdude

Me being critical of so-called “progressives” is not me laying out an argument for Trump.

The man is quite intelligent, so I think he’s adopted an idiom, a false mode of expression, that he believes will relate to people and the sometimes overt crudeness of his mannerisms reflects an attitude about those he is trying to approach.

It is, I believe, a cynical form of conviviality.

I can, sadly, see it. Not necessarily how Trump does, though. Many on the right have been reluctant to embrace the good arguments for constitutional governance because those undermine the foul, fetid waters of FDR’s legacy. The left has been dominated by various forms of mindlessness ever since it came to adopt a revolution-like notion of progress from things rather than to something, or landmark-less wondering on the mudflats of moral madness and ethical duplicity.


30 posted on 02/05/2016 10:56:31 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: bigbob

Not to mention the 58 MILLION taxpayers!


31 posted on 02/05/2016 10:58:04 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Jim Robinson; Gen.Blather; Buckeye McFrog

My Answer is also the Constitution but I would add...

...as written and originally understood and intended.

Therefore, any nominee of SCOTUS Justice should be investigated and queried based on their adherence and commitment to 1) read the Constitution as is and 2) if there’s a genuine dispute about the meaning of what is written, a good faith effort to find, not what the Justice himself thinks is moral and good, but the original understanding and intent of the ratifiers.

Such dedication and diligence demands a rare thing these days, especially in government: a selfless faithfulness in applying the facts of the case to the law (the Constitution) as is and intended, leaving it to others (the legislature) to change the law (Constitutional amendments). The constitutional duty of a judge or Justice is NEVER to change the law but apply it as is and as intended.

Also, such dedication and diligence, as well as understanding the Constitution among the general population, could turn SCOTUS back into the judicial branch the Constitution intended it to be: NOT to make national law, but a judicial body to decide certain “cases and controversies” whose decisions IF CONSTITUTIONAL are limited and binding ONLY on the parties of that particular case and a precedent for subsequent cases with similar facts and questions of law.

As with the rest of the federal government, the power of SCOTUS has expanded into a kind of oligarchy, way beyond what the ratifiers contemplated.


32 posted on 02/05/2016 11:00:03 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: PATRIOT1876

It’s rude to imply that Hillary is a worshiper of Molech. What did Molech ever do to you to rate that kind of insult?


33 posted on 02/05/2016 11:04:07 AM PST by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more then you seem.")
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To: joshua c

I hereby suggest that anytime the Clinton Foundation is referenced in text, it should properly be referred to as The Clinton Human Fund


34 posted on 02/05/2016 11:37:36 AM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: wagglebee

Her litmus test is more power for her and her friends.

Unfortunately, The Don is very similar in this regard.


35 posted on 02/05/2016 12:01:22 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Gen.Blather
The Supreme Court was designed to determine whether legislation passed by Congress was allowed under the constitution.

You may have been taught this in Ninth Grade Civics, but it's a myth.

36 posted on 02/05/2016 12:03:47 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Jim 0216
Question: Anyone know what the litmus test should REALLY be? Seriously?

Yes. Repeal of the judicial presumption of statutory jurisdiction.

37 posted on 02/05/2016 12:07:39 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Jim 0216

Well I agree.

My answer is on post #32 and includes your POV.


38 posted on 02/05/2016 12:24:18 PM PST by Jim W N
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To: wagglebee
””We’ve got to make sure to preserve Roe v. Wade, not let it be nibbled away or repealed [emphasis added],” she said."

Note that the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect the so-called right to have an abortion, the ”constitutional” right to have an abortion wrongly politically ”amended” to the Constitution from the bench by pro-abortion activist justices.

People like Hillary who push constitutionally unprotected abortion rights to win votes from low-information citizens have to make sure to preserve an activist justice majority in order to likewise preserve the so-called ”constitutional” right to have an abortion.

So the ongoing threat of repealing things like abortion and Obamacare, since these policies were wrongly established outside the framework of the Constitution, has actually given corrupt DC politicians an ongoing campaign promise to win votes from low-information citizens.

39 posted on 02/05/2016 12:38:59 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: tet68

Important comment.


40 posted on 02/05/2016 2:26:17 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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