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Trump Court Prospect Accepted Assumption That Illegal Caught at Border Has Right to Abortion in U.S.
cnsnews.com ^ | 7/8/18 | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 07/09/2018 3:50:01 PM PDT by a little elbow grease

(CNSNews.com) - Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia by President George W. Bush, accepted the assumption in a dissenting opinion he filed last October in the case of Garza v. Hargan that a teenage illegal alien caught at the border and put in detention has a right to an abortion in the United States.

At the same time, Kavanaugh conceded that “this case presents a new situation not yet directly confronted by the Supreme Court.”

Kavanaugh argued that in saying the illegal alien teen had a right to abortion in the United States he was accepting the government’s assumption regarding existing Supreme Court precedents.

Kavanaugh did say that the majority of the appeals court was mistaken in saying the illegal alien had “a right to immediate abortion on demand.” [Emphasis added.] He argued the government could delay the abortion while seeking to find the illegal alien a sponsor.

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KEYWORDS: court; kavanaugh; trumpscotus; upreme
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1 posted on 07/09/2018 3:50:01 PM PDT by a little elbow grease
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To: a little elbow grease

No one knows how anyone is going to rule on the SC.


2 posted on 07/09/2018 3:55:43 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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To: a little elbow grease

In the 60’s Mexico was the place to go to get an abortion.


3 posted on 07/09/2018 3:57:34 PM PDT by RideForever
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To: a little elbow grease
Well, isn't that a greasy piece. Kavanaugh's opinion was against government providing that abortion, which was all that he could do in that case.

While we're at, let's have a look at the person who gave the list of potential nominees to President Trump. Leo reportedly has some influence over who was selected.

Leonard Leo
Wikipedia
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Career
Leo served as National Co-Chairman of Catholic Outreach for the Republican National Committee, and as the 2004 Bush presidential campaign's Catholic Strategist...Leo organized efforts in support of the John Roberts and Samuel Alito U.S. Supreme Court confirmations...Leo has been published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Huffington Post.[8][9][10] He is a board member of the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast and a member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.



4 posted on 07/09/2018 4:04:58 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: familyop
This bio entirely overlooks Leonard Leo's most important position, his real source of influcence, that as executive vice president of the Federalist Society which is an constitutional-conservative organization whose members are mostly lawyers and a lot of judges.

His choices must have the broad support of a rather smart, well informed and high powered membership or he would be gone in a New York second, and without the support of the membership candidates forwarded to the President would go nowhere.

I don't want to take anything much away from him and making the Federalist society an influential advocate for rule of law / constitutional conservatives is a noble and creditable thing to do. But the power behind this so-called throne is a very very powerful membership.

5 posted on 07/09/2018 4:20:49 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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I don't want anyone associated with BUSH!

They gave us Souter, Roberts & wanted to nominate Harriet Miers

6 posted on 07/09/2018 4:37:16 PM PDT by KavMan
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To: a little elbow grease

All district court judges error when making their own decisions, when not doing their own due diligence directly on the Constitution itself, and the law but instead of that just take as “the law of the land” any Surpreme court precedent. That “precedent” applies to that court that made it alone, and no district court MUST acquiesence in it (accepting it can be over ruled) and no future Supreme court is bound by it either.


7 posted on 07/09/2018 4:38:05 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: AndyJackson

Trump will be, guess what, Trump?


8 posted on 07/09/2018 4:38:26 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: RideForever

That’s where a Hollywood (minor) star went to get hers.

From Patriot Games. And a few other movies.


9 posted on 07/09/2018 4:48:16 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: AndyJackson

Yes. I only posted an excerpt, and it was cherry-picked. And yes, the Federalist Society is very influential. For example, if Don Willett, a Texan, is chosen to be the next Supreme Court justice, I will be surprised, indeed.

My prediction is that the next Supreme Court Justice will be Catholic and from the northeast. And I wouldn’t count out a woman with a very small record of court opinions.


10 posted on 07/09/2018 4:56:12 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: fortheDeclaration
No one knows how anyone is going to rule on the SC.

We all know how Ginzberg and Sotomeyer will vote, and 90% of the time how Kagan will vote.

Republicans evolve.

Leftists attack.

11 posted on 07/09/2018 4:59:38 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Wuli

What?


12 posted on 07/09/2018 5:02:03 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: KavMan

I don’t want anyone associated with BUSH!
They gave us Souter, Roberts & wanted to nominate Harriet Miers

If you are counting like that, they gave you Thomas and Alito too.


13 posted on 07/09/2018 5:05:56 PM PDT by Luke21 (The Hill sucks.)
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To: a little elbow grease
Tough choice. Need someone with the wisdom of Solomon: an abortion or an anchor baby? Uggh.
 
14 posted on 07/09/2018 5:18:30 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: a little elbow grease

Relax gang. None of the candidates has what I, or you, or the next guy would consider a perfect record, but they’re all at 99%.. Any of the top 4 are solid, solid conservatives, and more importantly there are no Souters.


15 posted on 07/09/2018 5:26:25 PM PDT by chiller (If liberals didn't have double standards, they'd have none at all.)
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To: a little elbow grease

How can one even make an argument for that?


16 posted on 07/09/2018 5:27:27 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Mr. Lucky

A “precedent” is NOT the United States Constitution and no one set of Supreme Court Justices are truly “supreme”, only the Constitution, which other sessions of the Supreme Court can over-rule and that process begins with a lower court that makes an argument/case-decision outside of or against an early SCOTUS precedent. The idea that the Supreme Court justices are singularly the supreme law of the land, is an invention of a group of sessions of the Supreme Court and has no foundation in the Constitution itself.


17 posted on 07/09/2018 5:29:30 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wuli

Thank you.


18 posted on 07/09/2018 6:13:56 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: a little elbow grease

One less anchor baby.


19 posted on 07/09/2018 7:24:07 PM PDT by nonliberal (Sent from a payphone in a whorehouse in Mexico)
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To: AndyJackson
"This bio entirely overlooks Leonard Leo's most important position, his real source of influcence, that as executive vice president of the Federalist Society which is an constitutional-conservative organization whose members are mostly lawyers and a lot of judges.
His choices must have the broad support of a rather smart, well informed and high powered membership or he would be gone in a New York second, and without the support of the membership candidates forwarded to the President would go nowhere.

I don't want to take anything much away from him and making the Federalist society an influential advocate for rule of law / constitutional conservatives is a noble and creditable thing to do. But the power behind this so-called throne is a very very powerful membership.
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And now we know who the nominee is. If Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society did have much influence, it may have been a sober, analytical and objective influence in favor of our Constitution including our First Amendment. Thank you for your informative reply.


20 posted on 07/09/2018 7:42:24 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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