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 don’t know much about her. If you go to the linked site, you may learn some more about her and help fill in some gaps.
“Barrett graduated from and later taught at Notre Dame Law School. Notre Dame’s Law School has a reputation of being more conservative than the Ivy League law schools.”
Yeah, like that liberal moonbat pro-queer Pope. No thanks.
Charles Evens Hughes would probaby not have agreed with you.
I’ve heard her described as one of the strongest originalists we have, comparable to Scalia.
With all the rest, she would be a very good choice. And the left would be somewhat more restrained in attacking a woman nominee.
Precisely!
Why are so many FReepers so ill-informed about Roe v. Wade? People, you have to know what you’re talking about before you have any chance of convincing others...
Roe v Wade is largely a states rights issue, reversal would return the power of decision making over abortion to the states as it was prior to 1973. How many states would continue to offer abortions? Look at the Hillary map and you’d pretty much have the answer, but the others would once again be allowed to pass legislation governing abortion in their states, as it should be.
RE: One of the big issues in the populist movement in Brexit and other EU countries is that their Constitutions are trumped by Brussels and the EU agreements. Globalism is crony capitalism on steroids
And what makes you think that Ted Cruz will want to emulate something like the EU?
Abortion will be legal but some states will limit it...and the court will go along..
They may even limit it because of medical advancement
RE: Abortion will be legal but some states will limit it...and the court will go along..
That should have been the decision in Roe v. Wade instead of the SCOTUS imposing legal abortion on the entire country.
Same applies to gay marriage.
Her rulings from the bench.
How about, after a court decision, each Justice be required to write a brief report, stating the part of the Constitution they used to form their opinion, and cast their vote?
This would require them to at least think about their guiding principles, rather than their emotional “wisdom”.
Some accountability, as this, would put an end to much of the activism.
True statement.
True, but I don’t know what other means we have of even trying to ascertain their position, lacking a track record.
actually many people have three names.
I truly don’t know, but taking the entirety of his rulings on other matters in context, just as a speculation, I’d guess it to be in line with upholding the laws of the land as written and as based on the Constitution (that a nation has the sovereign right and duty to protect its borders. So I suppose I should have said “illegal immigration”).
In general, you are right about women and their vulnerability to emotional arguments and evolving, but, there are some great ones who are exceptcions. Maggie Thatcher, Jean Kirkpatrick, Ayn Rand, Phyllis Schafley. If we find one of those, don’t discriminate because she’s a women. Too many men have evolved in the DC pressure cooker, too.
Isn’t this the same judge the vile Diane Frankenstein raked over the coals and accused of being “too Catholic?” If so, I like this nominee already!
That stance is indeed emotionalism. They would never make the argument that slavery is OK, or a private “choice” or even should be left to the states. I don’t know why they’d see abortion (murder of infant humans) as any different. Unless they’d go as far as making the disingenuous argument that it’s not murder, that humans in the womb aren’t fully human.
I’d agree with at least kicking it back to the states, as an incremental tactic.
I didn’t think that Notre Dame university was especially conservative in recent times anyway, unless the Law College is a different matter.
7 children, 2 adopted from Haiti (hello Clinton Foundation/missing children)1 special needs (did not abort if aware of this while pregnant).
I’ve never been there, but that Pope is a flaming liberal moonbat.
His past support has been in that direction and his Goldman Sachs executive wife signed on to a Globalist plan for the U. S. without contradition or comment against by Ted AFAIK.
I knew all the details better after research in 16 that pushed me to be an early Trump supporter.
Hope this helps though.
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