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

[a little elbow grease]

Full title: Trump Court Prospect Accepted Assumption That Illegal Caught at Border Has Right to Abortion in U.S.

[fortheDeclaration]

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

[RideForever]

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

[familyop]

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
[Excerpt:]
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.

[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.

[KavMan]

I don't want anyone associated with BUSH!

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

[Wuli]

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.

[Don Corleone]

Trump will be, guess what, Trump?

[SaveFerris]

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

From Patriot Games. And a few other movies.

[familyop]

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.

[Fightin Whitey]

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.

[Mr. Lucky]

What?

[Luke21]

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.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Tough choice. Need someone with the wisdom of Solomon: an abortion or an anchor baby? Uggh.
 

[chiller]

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.

[TBP]

How can one even make an argument for that?

[Wuli]

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.

[Mr. Lucky]

Thank you.

[nonliberal]

One less anchor baby.

[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."

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.