I just love it when New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks
b/c I always wondered hat a boiled kale stem sounded like....
if it could talk.
Posted on 02/05/2017 11:14:30 AM PST by John Semmens
Following the nomination of federal appellate court judge Neil Gorsuch for the US Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia last February, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) announced a move to amend his state’s constitution to make a woman’s right to an abortion “safe from judicial meddling by a Supreme Court packed with Trump appointees.”
“The right of a woman to choose to terminate a pregnancy that was granted by the Court in their historic Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 must be saved from being callously snatched away after 40 years of successful operation,” Cuomo said. “The right to choose is too precious for us to squander. Protecting this right is a core value of our resistance to Trump’s tyranny. Embedding this right in our state’s constitution is the only sure way of immunizing our state from one of the atrocities this evil man would inflict upon an innocent population.”
Amending the New York State Constitution is no easy task. It could be achieved by calling a state constitutional convention, but that would expose other clauses of the constitution to possible amendment. A more narrowly focused amendment dealing solely with abortion could be accomplished if two successively elected legislatures passed an identical amendment bill that would then be referred to the voters. The earliest this could all be completed is 2019.
Not only might the time-consuming amendment process be too late to head off any US Supreme Court action on the issue, it night be futile. The 1973 Roe v. Wade decision overrode numerous state laws on the ground that the US Constitution’s right to privacy took precedence over any state’s laws. A Court decision reversing Roe v. Wade could find ample justification within the US Constitution to override state laws or constitutions. For example, the victims of the abortion procedure are subjected to cruel punishment (death) without being found guilty of a crime. This would appear to violate both the Fifth and Eighth Amendments.
The complaint by Kim Atkins, board chair of Planned Parenthood Empire State Acts, “that such an action by the Supreme Court would violate states’ rights” bears an ironic similarity to arguments made by Sen. John Calhoun (D-SC) on behalf of the South’s “peculiar institution” of slavery in 1838 and Sen. William Fulbright (D-Ark) on behalf of segregation in 1964.
In related news, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) was apoplectic over the nomination of Judge Gorsuch for the Supreme Court calling him “a maniacal advocate for placing the rights of the unborn over those of women. Fetuses aren’t people until they’re born. Yet, this judge has a record of putting concerns for the rights of these creatures above those of the women forced to endure their invasion of her body. For the sake of humanity the Senate must not confirm such a monstrous person for our highest judicial tribunal.”
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John, you’re getting so good at predicting the lefties next move that I suspect they read your posts for guidance on what to do to piss off the right next...: )
I have just the constitutional phrase for him: “Sex, liberty, and the right to kill babies!”
I just love it when New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks
b/c I always wondered hat a boiled kale stem sounded like....
if it could talk.
That is an insult to Kale everywhere.....what a maroon!
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I liked his dad at least at a standpoint of a decent statesman of the Democrat party before it went full socialist. How did his son turn into such a douche bag. He is a complete idiot. It’s the same dichotomy with Ronald Reagan JR.
To be truly Progressive about women’s rights perhaps a law could be passed that denies the vote to women who have not yet had an abortion.
I hope that Preet Bharara succeeds in sending Cuomo to prison.
I think his time is short, Preet is watching his every move and the state of NY is headed for the bankruptcy wall at Mach2. When it blows it isn’t going to be pretty.
The Fifth Amendment (”No person...shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”) and the Fourteenth Amendment (”nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”), taken individually or especially together, clearly prohibit abortion.
We need to reinforce that by whatever legislative means are appropriate.
The Constitution of the United States take precedence over any state constitution.
Aren’t both of them allegedly “catholic”?
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