I found the Collins speech to be odd too. It was a speech that suggest that Roe was in no danger. I didn’t like that.
This speculation is way premature.
Kavenaugh has elected to turn over several judicial determinations. He is not above it, because he believes the Constitution speaks for itself, where.it.speaks.at.all.
Roe was determined on privacy rights and the rights of the mother, but, not the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It was wrongly decided, taken from the States, taken from Congress, taken from established precedent of being against the law. Roe was lawless.
Kav is a practicing Catholic. What kind of Catholic, we will see.
In other words, precedent isn’t a goal or an aspiration. It is a constitutional tenet that has to be followed except in the most extraordinary circumstances.
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This kind of thinking can be dangerous when the precedent is wrong.
Chuck Grassley said today if a SCOTUS seat opens up in 2020, he will not do anything if Trump nominates another justice.
UNBELEIVABLE AND UNACCEPTABLE!!!! Grassley, if you refuse to do your job as judiciary chairman, you need to be FIRED from your chairmanship!
Cocaine Mitch needs to have a Come to Jesus Meeting with Grassley. Don’t let us down, Mitch!!!!
Roe is “settled law” just like Plessy v. Ferguson and the Dred Scott decision were settled law. They were overturned and the wrongly decided Roe v. Wade case will be overturned in time.
The Truth will out!
No they should not. What the alternative?
This is why Conservative Inc is the most pathetically intent political moment in history. Instead of celebratinf the 1st down they sit in the stands mindlessly bitching the team doesn’t score a touchdown on every play.
If anyone expects Roe vs. Wade will be suddenly overturned on a 5-4 vote, they are going to be disappointed.
That is not how it is going to happen. Conservatives are not going to ignore precedent.
It is very possible that the freedom of states to regulate abortion can be gradually restored. Eventually, better science can replace Blackmun’s junk science of trimesters. Maybe states will be able to prohibit abortion after the point where the fetus is viable, or the point where it can be demonstrated that the fetus can feel pain,both of which are moving closer and closer to the moment of conception.
We did not become a people that it kills its unborn in a s single moment, and we will not expiate this practice in a single moment. It is a long struggle and the tide is only slowly beginning to turn.
No judge who is openly, or even plausibly, anti-abortion will be confirmed by this or any other Senate.
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.”
“...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.
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.
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...