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Elections have consequences for the Supreme Court ---If a seat opens up, Trump must fill it---
The Boston Herald ^ | 08-27-2019 | Herald Staff

Posted on 08/27/2019 11:56:29 AM PDT by calvincaspian

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EVERY GOP Senator must we WARNED that “cooperating with” the LEFTIST DIMocRATS on “vetting” any SCOTUS nominee by President Trump will be LETHAL for their fund-raising & re-election chances.

Personally, I’m sick to death of RINOs & DIMocRATS = I want them ALL G-O-N-E, GONE from every position of public trust.

Yours, TMN78247


41 posted on 08/27/2019 2:50:02 PM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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To: cuban leaf
"I’m hoping we get Amy."

I did a quick search some time back, and some reservations arose.

Barrett adopted two children from Haiti. How might that affect her thoughts in regards to immigration issues? Where do Catholic charities stand on immigration and borders?

Also,...

Catholic Judges in Capital Cases [Information in re. Amy Coney Barrett]
Marquette Law Review, Notre Dame Law School ^ | 1998 | Amy Coney Barrett, John H. Garvey
Posted on 07/03/2018 2:29:31 AM PDT by familyop

Catholic Judges in Capital Cases

Amy Coney Barrett, Notre Dame Law School
John H. Garvey

Document Type
Article

Publication Date
1998

Publication Information
81 Marq. L. Rev. 303 (1997-1998)

Abstract
The Catholic Church's opposition to the death penalty places Catholic judges in a moral and legal bind. While these judges are obliged by oath, professional commitment, and the demands of citizenship to enforce the death penalty, they are also obliged to adhere to their church's teaching on moral matters. Although the legal system has a solution for this dilemma by allowing the recusal of judges whose convictions keep them from doing their job, Catholic judges will want to sit whenever possible without acting immorally. However, litigants and the general public are entitled to impartial justice, which may be something a judge who is heedful of ecclesiastical pronouncements cannot dispense. Therefore, the authors argue, we need to know whether judges are legally disqualified from hearing cases that their consciences would let them decide. While mere identification of a judge as Catholic is not sufficient reason for recusal under federal law, the authors suggest that the moral impossibility of enforcing capital punishment in such cases as sentencing, enforcing jury recommendations, and affirming are in fact reasons for not participating.

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Reprinted with permission of Marquette Law Review.

Recommended Citation
Barrett, Amy Coney and Garvey, John H., "Catholic Judges in Capital Cases" (1998). Journal Articles. 527.
https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/law_faculty_scholarship/527

(Excerpt) Read more at scholarship.law.nd.edu ...

42 posted on 08/27/2019 3:24:26 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: cuban leaf

We do need someone who is strong on the Second Amendment and has a record to show for it, though. Too many of the Democrats have been disseminating promotions of violence while being most obsessed towards disarming conservatives. The time ahead could very be dangerous, if Democrats are allowed to do that.


43 posted on 08/27/2019 3:28:41 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: canuck_conservative

McCain might even show up.


44 posted on 08/27/2019 6:55:33 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: semantic

Opinions and a certain body part.

Everybody has one.


45 posted on 08/27/2019 8:30:24 PM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: DoodleDawg

So the Biden Rule was not about lame duck status but a coming election?


46 posted on 08/28/2019 4:45:46 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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To: fortheDeclaration
So the Biden Rule was not about lame duck status but a coming election?

Yes. He said it in a speech on the Senate floor in 1992 and meant it for Bush, who was not a lame duck at the time.

47 posted on 08/28/2019 5:16:33 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: fortheDeclaration
So the Biden Rule was not about lame duck status but a coming election?

Yes. He said it in a speech on the Senate floor in 1992 and meant it for Bush, who was not a lame duck at the time.

48 posted on 08/28/2019 5:16:34 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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