Posted on 06/28/2018 12:04:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The campaign against the presidents zealots will be a major test of strength for civil rights and abortion rights groups. A new Democratic lion is needed
Republican president who is eager to build a clear, conservative majority on the United States supreme court and too sure of his political ground overreaches. He picks a rightwing zealot for the open seat created by the retirement of a justice. At stake in the subsequent political battle over his nomination is the constitutional right of American women to have an abortion.
This was the Washington drama that unfolded in 1987 when the president was Ronald Reagan, and his supreme court nominee was the controversial Robert Bork. Over a quarter of a century later, history is about to repeat itself in the latest crucial political test of the Donald Trump era.
Anthony Kennedy, who this week announced his retirement as a justice of the supreme court, was a decent man. His decisions upholding gay rights and legalising gay marriage will earn him a deserved place in history. Although some of his votes on abortion cases were bad, at the most pivotal moment in a watershed 1992 decision he voted to uphold the Roe v Wade supreme court decision to safeguard a womans right to an abortion. Granted, Kennedys votes in this latest term were consistently awful and solidly conservative, but there were other crucial moments when he was the swing vote and chose to uphold human rights and decency. His replacement, if Trump gets his way, will have none of those moderating tendencies.
Already Trumps first court pick, Neil Gorsuch, has formed an unholy alliance with the most rightwing justice, Clarence Thomas....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
The left has experience trashing good people. Bork. Thomas. Trump. They will throw everything they have at the nominee. They will find some whore willing to say that he did such and such thing, they will pay her big bucks, and cnn will go wild with the story for 4 weeks.
“Already Trumps first court pick, Neil Gorsuch, has formed an unholy alliance with the most rightwing justice, Clarence Thomas....”
Winning.
I sure hope they don't like him/her.
You mean the Democrats need a new womanizing drunk to smear Trump’s SCOTUS picks?
That was a belch.
Yeah... but at least we have the internet now.
If we had it then, we might have been able to save Bork.
The Left is in a world of hurt right now.
That’s why it is vitally important this is a solid pick.
We’ll have the lifetime of the next pick to pay for whatever mistake is made.
The wrong pick, and we’ve got a 5-4 upside down situation on our hands.
We should be praying for Trump to get the best person possible.
So, it was ok for liberal presidents to pack the court with all liberal picks, but Conservatives can’t do that, huh?
Sorry jackasses, but “affirmative action” doesn’t cover political ideology.
Trump can give you a big ol’ “I WON” just like oblammo did, and to the winner, goes the spoils.
We had to “man up” and endure eight years of the commie muslim, now it’s your turn.
“Donald Trumps nominee for the supreme court will have to be resisted: New Democratic lion needed”
The old “Lion of the Senate” is now worm shit....which he basically was before he cacked. Thank you Lord.
Yeah but the best part is theres nothing those but wipes can do about it. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!
The Guardian you say ?
So British interference is ok, ALLEGED Russian is evil and people should be killed for it?
Got it. Those are the rules.
True dat.
What's Anthony Wiener doing?
Teddy Kennedy knew this full well and was very, very good at it. Teddy Kennedy is dead. And anyone stupid enough to try to strike a deal with the likes of Chuck Schumer deserves what he gets.
Since when did interpret the laws based on the constitution become extreme right wing? For interesting reading read the opinion on any case from both ginsberg and thomas. Then read ginsberg versus a junion high school girls essay, then play which one was written by the junior highschooler
OK, that was funny.
Buying ramen noodles and Cheetos in the prison store.
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