VIDEO: Sotomayor: Partial-Birth Abortion Case Is "Settled Law"

Real Clear Politics ^ | July 14, 2009 | Real Clear Politics

[ianschwartz]

Judge Sonia Sotomayor says Gonzales v. Carhart, a case regarding partial-birth abortion is "settled law."

[CharlesWayneCT]

She is saying a lot of the right things, but the question is how will she feel about it in a year or two when she has to answer to nobody.

If her answers today are truthful and binding, she may in the end not be any worse than David Souter.

[the long march]

Yeah and the Dred Scott case was settled law until it wasn’t. What a lunatic

[wardaddy]

David Souter

that was bad enough CW

[ml/nj]

I guess that means that "Roe" is settled law too. The only thing these folks do not consider settled law is that stuff the Madison and the boys came up with in 1787-91.

ML/NJ

[subterfuge]

“Partial birth” abortion is NOT settled law. What an idiot.

[Dan Middleton]

You know Carhart upheld the ban on partial-birth abortion, right?

[DYngbld]

She will say anything to get the nomination. I don't trust her.
I really don't think she knows the difference between the legislative, executive, or judicial branches of government.

[subterfuge]

When was that and when was the original ruling?

[ex-snook]

Dred Scott was settled law.

[ZULU]

“the question is how will she feel about it in a year or two when she has to answer to nobody”

BINGO!!!!

Like her boss she is a damned liar. Judge her not by what she says, but by her record.

And her record exposes her as a shameless sexist racist and an individual who has no concept of the Constitution and Constitutional Law. Most of her decisions which reached SCOTUS were overturned and that says it all.

Her sole qualification is her ethnicity and the fact that she shares her boss’s opinion that the Constitution is really nothing but a scrap of paper created by a bunch of dead old white guys.

[USNBandit]

....and more recently Kelo.

[yongin]

Sonia has past rulings on race and gun control are dreadful. However her ruling abortion aren’t as bad. No doubt, she’ll uphold Roe. However, she may uphold resonable restrictions on abortions (i.e parental consent, bans on taxpayer funding and late term abortion). So Sonia may be a marginal set up from Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

[Dan Middleton]

It was a 2007 decision, on appeal from an Eigth Circuit ruling holding the ban unconstitutional in 2005. Just Google the case name. Gonzalez v. Carhart upheld the ban. Sotomayor saying that's settled law is a good thing...the problem is that she probably doesn't mean it.

[subterfuge]

A two year old ruling is not “settled law” in my book, I don’t care if it was affirmed or not.

[pogo101]

“I’m sorry, Mr. [Thurgood] Marshall. ‘Plessy’ is settled law, after all. Go away.”

[Dan Middleton]

Very well. I just suspect half the people reading this thread don’t know what the outcome of the case was, though that won’t stop them from posting.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[the long march]

Exactly.

[CharlesWayneCT]

That is a good point. IN fact, it should be considered an error in judgment for a supreme court nominee to suggest that a case so recent qualifies as “settled law”.