Just One Judge: Why the Supreme Court is the Key Issue For the 2008 Election

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Catholic and pro-life ping!

In considering the Supreme Court with McCain as president and a Democratically controlled Senate, I am worried about the next appointee.

However, if an older judge retires and a conservative judge is nominated and the Senate rejects the conservative, we win by not compromising.

With fewer judges, our majority grows by liberal ones retiring. My concern is in compromising.

I’m far more concerned about the 2nd amendment being overturned. Another Souter or Stevens on the court and we will be fighting jack-booted thugs breaking down our doors and sweeping our homes with metal detectors. It happened in New Orleans and will certainly happen under 8 years of the Messiah of the Marxist left.

to restore the Constitutional guarantee of Life, or to allow the killing of innocent unborn children to continue.

And soon to be added to the list, the elderly, and infirm. Hitler would be proud.

ARTL offers Nat’l RTL $10,000

Press Release
May 2008

$10,000 Cash Offered to Nat’l RTL
from American RTL to name ‘one’ pro-life justice

See this also at Yahoo Denver Post CovenantNews USA Today etc.

“American Right To Life is offering attorney James Bopp $10,000 for National RTL,” said the group’s president Brian Rohrbough, “if he can name a single justice on the current U.S. Supreme Court who has ever written, or joined in an opinion, that the unborn child has a right to life, whether in a majority ruling or a dissent.”

“In 1981, after president Ronald Reagan agreed he would sign federal personhood legislation for the unborn, National Right to Life and their longtime attorney James Bopp actually opposed that effort claiming they supported a states’ rights approach,” says the group’s site AmericanRTL.org. “A quarter century later notice that NRTL and Bopp have long opposed all state personhood efforts.”

On May 13, Colorado pro-lifers turned in 131,000 signatures exceeding by 55,000 the number needed to force a statewide vote to acknowledge in law the personhood of the unborn child.

“National Right to Life has misled the pro-life community to think that this is the wrong time to advocate personhood because we need one more Justice on the Supreme Court to have a pro-life majority,” said Rohrbough. “But if we added a Justice who would uphold the right to life of the unborn, then we would have only one such Justice. The failed long-term strategy of regulating the killing of a fetus has left America without a single Justice who knows that it’s wrong to kill an unborn baby; National RTL’s compromise will never produce a pro-life Supreme Court.”

Even Dr. James Dobson, a supporter of the failed regulation strategy admits that: “Ending partial-birth abortion... does not save a single human life.” And in an article about NRTL’s failed PBA ban, Notre Dame Law School’s professor emeritus Charles Rice said, “Every justice now on the court accepts the Roe holding that the unborn child is a non-person... The situation remains as described by Justice John Paul Stevens in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.” For Stevens had written that “the Court... rejected, the argument ‘that the fetus is a “person”’. ... there was no dissent...” And Clarence Thomas wrote in his Stenberg dissent that “a State may permit abortion,” and Antonin Scalia wrote in Casey, “The states may, if they wish, permit abortion-on-demand...”

“American Right to Life will give a $10,000 cash prize to National if their general counsel James Bopp can name even a single U.S. Supreme Court Justice who has ever written or joined in any ruling or dissent advocating the personhood of the unborn,” said Steve Curtis, ARTL’s vice president and former chairman of the Colorado Republican Party. “To make their strategy appear successful, National Right To Life has misled the pro-life movement into believing that abortion accomplices like Samuel Alito, John Roberts, Thomas and Scalia are pro-life.”

In 2002 Scalia said, “I will... strike down a law that is the opposite of Roe v. Wade. ... One wants no state to be able to prohibit abortion and the other one wants every state to have to prohibit abortion, and they’re both wrong...” In 2004 Scalia claimed, “Take the abortion issue... there’s something to be said for both sides.” And on April 9, 2008 Scalia said, “You want the right to abortion? Create it the way most rights are created in a democracy. Persuade your fellow citizens it’s a good idea - and pass a law.” And then Scalia even joked about the actual killing of the child by using the phrase, “split the baby,” to much laughter, from the students, and from himself.

“National RTL claims success in Antonin Scalia but he is not pro-life; like all the Republicans on the Court, he is a legal positivist, which is a courtroom moral relativist,” Rohrbough said. “Like their Dred Scott counterpart that ruled a black man could be owned as property, the current Republican Supreme Court is wicked and will only learn about the right to life of the unborn from the advancing personhood wing of the pro-life movement.”

Contact:
National RTL can contact Donna Ballentine
1-888-888-ARTL (2785)
office@AmericanRTL.org
http://www.americanrighttolife.org/news/artl-offers-natl-rtl-10000

Since the libs on the Supreme Court are the likely ones to need replacing rather than the 4 solid conservatives, it doesn’t strike me as important as it otherwise would be.

Even fipflopper Kennedy is not that old or ill compared to say, Stevens or Ginsberg.

The lower courts are another matter.

What Colin Powell said about the prospect of two more conservatives on the court was disgusting.

Roe Vs Wade is important. However, I have no knowledge that the USSC would overturn the ruling even by the conservatives sitting there today. Now Heller is in extreme danger of betting gutted to mean nothing. That my friends is a reason to vote. As ususal Conservatives are going to lose BIG and the Constitution is going to be a dead letter. Sad. We got so close and the fools that run this party are giving away the country.