Posted on 10/09/2018 6:46:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This is absolutely correct. Even if Kav or Roberts is personally pro-life, they will not have the courage to be the 5th vote to overturn this. Can you imagine the outcry of the Left if such a case were being argued and decided in the Supreme Court? That will probably bring about actual Civil War, and Roberts will not be the one to decide that. He will almost certainly vote to not overturn, even if he is personally pro-life, as it will bring about actual Civil War. Only if there are 6-7 conservatives on the Supreme Court should such a case be brought. That would be our only chance. We cannot risk it before that.
Exactly right.
The judge’s only ruling on abortion came last year, when he dissented on an appeals-court decision that allowed an illegal alien teenager in federal custody to get an abortion.
Kavanaugh wrote that the government “has permissible interests in favoring fetal life, protecting the best interests of a minor, and refraining from facilitating abortion.”
New findings - the route to rendering Roe nugatory.
“...Susan Collins’ make-or-break speech Friday was actually a damning indictment of how little vetting we did before appointing him to lifetime power.”
Underfkucing statement of the century, but for different reasons in my own case.
RvW is not law. Worse, it’s based on shaky ground.
But while everyone is fighting over a decision by the Court and the very ill-defined 2A Congress will never get anything done.
To a purpose, I say.
That is a thin strand of opinion to rely on. I agree with someone above who said K will NOT by himself overturn Roe by being the 5th vote. R will not allow it, even if A, G, T are for it. We need 6-7 for legitimacy...
Wishful thinking.The US Supreme Court answers to nobody.No Justice is bound by any promises he/she might have made...or might have appeared to make...to any President or Senator.
Psst...I’ll let you in on a secret: They aren’t going to overturn Roe or Planned Parenthood v. Casey. SCOTUS never explicitly overturned Lochner v. New York either.
Roe will slowly die the death of 1000 judicial cuts. It will be be chopped away exception by exception, until the exceptions swallow the rule.
My gut tells me he’ll be way closer to Kennedy than Scalia. He clerked for Kennedy.
I hope I’m wrong.
Also I wonder how this nominating experience will impact his rulings. Will he try to make the people who crucified him like him by voting more liberal than he would have, or will he vote more conservative as pay back?
Totally agree with this and I’ve been telling people about this since....
Steve King, Twitter (The Iowa representative, immigration hawk):
“Soon, babies like this little angel will be protected in the womb by law.”
https://twitter.com/SteveKingIA
That’s a Republican congressman who wrote that... but I’ve got to wonder. On one of the news channels, they are saying there are about 6 or 8 cases heading to the Supreme Court on abortion.
Yeah, I am very concerned. We might see something a year or so down the line, maybe after 2020. I don’t think we will see action soon unfortunately. Maybe some piecemeal pro-life decisions.
According to Cliff Kincaid, Collins even received a Planned Parenthood award: http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/kincaid/181008
That’s part of the problem, PP is a big lobby, I told everyone before this, I hope Kav goes through but as said, he’s Kennedy’s replacement and probably just a hair more conservative. We’ve got to hope for the best and pray.
PP is on congressional staffs, all kinds of stuff, but guess what? Unfortunately, we just didn’t have the dadgum votes.
Roe verses Wade was an abomination against states rights. Law was made up by Judicial Fiat in a totally unconstitutional act by judicial activists on the Supreme Court. They cited a right to privacy as the premise. Do I have the right to kill my son in the privacy of my home? This was not bad law but a radical court usurping the legislative branch. That is worse than bad law.
Although I abhor abortion I also realize that the taking of human life as in execution for criminal acts or abortion is up to each and individual Republic of our nation.
Roe verses Wade should be overturned and laws concerning abortion returned to the individual Republic States. Then the final solution is morality and not law.
Oddly each and every one of those babies could have loving homes with childless couples that desperately want them. Abortion is a cruel and selfish act.
Sigh.........the concern trolls needed something else to “speculate” on...I’d wager they also went semi-ballistic when they heard he voted 93% with Garland...without having a clue of what the cases were and whether Garland happened to be right on them...
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