Posted on 07/01/2018 9:03:59 AM PDT by House Atreides
There has been a lot of discussion on the possibility of Trump selecting Judge Barrett as his nominee for the current SCOTUS vacancy. Surprisingly (to me anyhow) there has been a lot of opposition to her expressed here by FReepers with a significant portion because she is a woman and thus viewed as prone to evolve. Many FReepers who I know to be women are among those opposed to her because of the view that women Justices are subject to this evolving.
Others oppose her because of concern that they dont know much about her. If you go to the linked site, you may learn some more about her and help fill in some gaps.
I completely agree. Without a verifiable paper trail on 2A, I can’t support Barrett at this point. Like you, I’m almost certain that I’d prefer Grant between the two for that reason.
How about some proof that she didn’t just do that for the show trial? She could be a plant...I need real world proof
Cruz tricked Trump into picking Sessions. Yep....Canadian Ted would have folded his tent early.
I am so totally disgusted by Cruz esp when I saw him evolve on Roy Moore deal. Not my guy.
As for Barrett, I am starting to get squeamish abt women in high places. And I am a gal.
Give me about an hour when I can get to a PC and I can post a link to a YouTube video of her agreeing with another commentator who says this Pope is a ‘good Catholic.’
And “real world proof” would be?
Dittos on the Cubanadian comments.
Agreed. The objections to her are based on nothing but prejudice. Reagan was given bad advice about O’Conner, who wasn’t a Federal judge and hadn’t—and never did—mature beyond the “splitting the baby” phase of jurisprudence.
What was Nino’s position on immigration?
It’s pretty clear there are some Freepers who don’t like her and question her judicial philosophy simply because she’s Catholic! The late Antonin Scalia was and Justice Thomas is a Catholic!
2A is the most important issue. We lose that, it’s over. The left shoved abortion upon America with ease. I would find it extremely difficult to reverse abortion. There are many women who are actually middle of the right and sway right who nevertheless are uneasy about eliminating “choice”. It’s pure emotionalism. We need an ironclad conservative originalist court.
Most of the Catholic Freepers here ignore what Pope Frank says, even the the Catholic Church dictates that the Pope is the “Vicar of Christ” on earth.
So this judge would probably ignore the pope too.
And aren’t justices supposed to be ugly? Can you have gravitas if you’re beautiful?
GOD, Family, Country. In that order you can never go wrong.
Agreed on 2A, and this isn’t the time to be taking risks on someone who *might* be good on the issue. This court will almost certainly be taking up a decisive 2A case within the next few years. I don’t want to find out the hard way that we took the wrong chance.
I’m not opposed to female SCOTUS justices.
We currently have FOUR!
Only about 36% of U.S. Court of Appeals judges are women.
This is the pool that Supreme Court justices should be chosen from. We already have a court that is 44% female!
Is it a good idea to make it 56%?
Males are a large majority in the pool of prospects. Why should they be a MINORITY on the Supreme Court?
They shouldn’t!
Oh, I almost forgot...
Thomas Hardiman
I never—I should say rarely—trust a woman who uses hyphens or three names.
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