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Donald Trump’s nominee for the supreme court will have to be resisted: New Democratic lion needed
The Manchester Guardian ^ | June 28, 2018 | Jill Abramson

Posted on 06/28/2018 12:04:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The campaign against the president’s 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 woman’s right to an abortion. Granted, Kennedy’s 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 Trump’s first court pick, Neil Gorsuch, has formed an unholy alliance with the most rightwing justice, Clarence Thomas....

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; babyharpseals; mediawhorejill; nazidemocrats; scotus; summerofdemocrathate; supremecourt; thebabyharpsealcure; theyarecomingforyou; theyrecomingforunext; trump; trumpscotus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Judge Napalitano.


21 posted on 06/28/2018 12:20:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=600><p>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Whenever, the Brits try to meddle in our country’s politics and tell us who to pick as a president or our Supremes.

I wish that my ancestors had killed more elite Brits in our two revolutionary wars.

Also, we lost a lot of good men or had seriously hurt men defending these sob’s in WWI and WWII. My Dad was seriously injured in a training accident in WWI and was on a disability for the rest of his life. Why did we bother saving these human rectums.

$crew the elite Brits and their Muslim mayor of London.


22 posted on 06/28/2018 12:21:11 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump: "Families of American citizens murdered by illegals are permanently separated from them!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

One doubts that the Guardian staff even understand what strict construction of our Constitution requires—or why it is essential for the continuity of America. Manchester, today, is better in soccer than journalism.


23 posted on 06/28/2018 12:22:52 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it. But don't break it. Don't break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That's not being faithful to what this country's about." "We're not campaigning anymore, the election's over."
- Barack Obama
24 posted on 06/28/2018 12:24:31 PM PDT by SunStar (Democrats piss me off!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What’s the life expectancy of a 68-year old practicing homo?


25 posted on 06/28/2018 12:24:38 PM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM! for sure!)
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To: dsrtsage

Since when did “interpret the laws based on the constitution” become extreme!.

Ever since we kicked their butts in our two revolutionary wars with these elite rectums!

Remember, these are the Brits who brought slavery to America and profited on it.


26 posted on 06/28/2018 12:25:20 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump: "Families of American citizens murdered by illegals are permanently separated from them!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There is, of course, no such “right” in or implied in the Constitution. It is a Court decided “right” and nothing more.


27 posted on 06/28/2018 12:26:09 PM PDT by arthurus (qet)
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To: Billthedrill

Teddy Kennedy is dead! Hooray! The stupid, fat, drunk, killer had it coming, for a long time.


28 posted on 06/28/2018 12:29:05 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: MUDDOG

[At the time of the Bork nomination, Ted Kennedy, the Democratic senator and liberal lion, roared loud and long]

That’s only because he was half loaded and wasn’t wearing any pants so he had to stay seated.


29 posted on 06/28/2018 12:29:08 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This fight is going to be huge. Trump should nominate someone just a small sliver to the left of Gorsuch, with even more impeccable credentials.


30 posted on 06/28/2018 12:30:32 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: dsrtsage

[Since when did “interpret the laws based on the constitution” become extreme right wing?]

Since it became a “living” document.


31 posted on 06/28/2018 12:31:09 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
San Fran Nan IS the U. S. Senate minority Lion.

LOL

32 posted on 06/28/2018 12:31:27 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: Celerity

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.

Posted by Celerity

Thanks!

I will be using this.


33 posted on 06/28/2018 12:32:30 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump: "Families of American citizens murdered by illegals are permanently separated from them!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

As Lancey Howard used to post:

Ted Kennedy(D, Hell)


34 posted on 06/28/2018 12:35:01 PM PDT by LeonardFMason (426)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Robert Bork. Over a quarter of a century later, history is about to repeat itself

Nope. The Left no longer has a monopoly on the dissemination of information

35 posted on 06/28/2018 12:37:13 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Did someone call for a Democrat Lion?

36 posted on 06/28/2018 12:43:49 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

that was a different era, they will not be able to “bork” this nominee no matter what this cow says


37 posted on 06/28/2018 12:46:15 PM PDT by Baladas
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To: I want the USA back

remember how Trump picked Gorsuch? He just sent a car thru the back of the house, and flew in by military plane so the MSM will not know who he really picked..


38 posted on 06/28/2018 12:46:56 PM PDT by beergarden
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“You mean the Democrats need a new womanizing drunk to smear Trump’s SCOTUS picks?”

Ronald Reagan was a wonderful man and a great President; however, he wasn’t a honey badger, let the woman murderer Kennedy get away with this garbage, and never really mounted a serious offensive to protect Bork and get him confirmed. OTOH, we can count on our PRESIDENT Trump to fight for our SCOTUS nominee like a female honey badger fighting for her cubs when threatened by a Grizzly Bear.


39 posted on 06/28/2018 12:48:00 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There will be some new democratic lyin’ needed.


40 posted on 06/28/2018 12:48:48 PM PDT by tinyowl (A is A)
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