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he notion that Judge Amy Coney Barrett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit will be President Trump’s third lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court has the liberal progressives in cardiac arrest. They threaten Trump with another impeachment for doing what the Constitution allows him to do – appoint Supreme Court justices and lower court judges (he has done 300 so far) up to the very last second before he leaves office, assuming he is not reelected. But it looks increasingly likely that he will be, particularly if he makes such a stellar pick. Trump has promised...

Republicans need to ask themselves a couple of questions before they battle over Barack Obama's eventual nominee to replace Justice Scalia on the Supreme Court. Is there any good reason to allow this president to change the ideological composition the Supreme Court radically? What is the political downside of denying him? The GOP could start by making arguments about the Senate's duty to preserve the Supreme Court's integrity as a bulwark against the vagaries of democracy and executive abuse. And while that sounds like a fantastic case to me, I'm skeptical the average voter cares all that much about idealism...

Fr. Frank Pavone  Other Articles by Fr. Frank PavonePrinter Friendly Version   The State's Interest in Life April 19, 2007 On Wednesday, the Supreme Court upheld the ban on partial-birth abortion that was enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Bush in 2003. This is an event of historic progress for the pro-life cause, whose ultimate goal is to restore protection to every unborn child, at every stage of development. For the first time since Roe vs. Wade, the United States of America has actually banned an abortion procedure, rather than just regulated it.The pro-abortion forces attempted...