Dawn Johnsen May Receive Recess Appointment, Perhaps Supreme Court Seat

Life New ^ | 2/10/10 | Steven Ertelt

[Jacquerie]

I don't think the pubbies can prevent recess; it is up to the Speaker and Majority Leader. Backbone is not an issue.

[mojitojoe]

You lie. you bastard!!!

Most hateful president I can think of in my lifetime.
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He is a weak, hateful, little half man. A narcissist x 1000000000000000000000.

[katiedidit1]

However, alot of damage may be done in the meantime. Two years can result in a nightmare. Look at Obama’s first year in office.

[Palmetto Patriot]

11 Months.

Next Congress convenes in 2011.

[omega4179]

His religion is Government. Home to those that would fail in a free enterprise job.

[Lexinom]

As the former legal director for the pro-abortion group NARAL, Johnsen argued in a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court that denying a pregnant woman the right to demand unrestricted abortion is to subject her to slavery, which was outlawed by the Thirteenth Amendment after the Civil War.

This siren of Hell needs to read the Fourteenth Amendment, esp. this part: "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; 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."

[businessprofessor]

If only just her abortion views were radical. She has radical views across the spectrum of issues.

[Marty62]

Are they planning an unexpected vacancy??

One of the conservs?

[calex59]

Recess appointments are temporary.

[Christian4Bush]

Correct, the next Congress was seated in January, 2007 after the 2006 elections. If Obama makes a recess appointment now, the next Congress begins in January, 2011.

So the solution seems to be win the Senate (and the House), and then not ONE fothamucking recess appointment.

[dennisw]

Johnsen is a Methodist who teaches Sunday school.[22] She and her husband, community development finance executive John Mark Hamilton, have two children.[4] Hamilton unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana’s 8th congressional district in 2000, but was defeated in the primary.[4]

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

If she succeeds one of the current 4 pro abortion clowns there's be no particular problem.

Unless you're a particular pre-born baby in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[Candor7]

Obama whines about obstructionist Republicans after he has had Reid and Pelosi lock ALL Republicans out of Legisative conferences for a year?

Buahahahaha!

When will Obama morph into a real politician instead of a whining wimp?

[Gay State Conservative]

Unless you're a particular pre-born baby in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I understand this.The point I was trying to make was that if Hussein replaces one of the four Communists already on the court with a Communist that unborn baby will be no worse off than before.The *big* problem begins when he replaces one of the decent Justices currently serving with a Communist.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Obama is in a quandary regarding SCOTUS retirements. If Ginsburg and Stevens retire this year Obama will have to either nominate moderates or else watch the Senate go GOP in November. If they wait until 2011 to retire Obama will have to nominate moderates because there will be 48 GOP Senators and Obama won’t have the votes to confirm judges as liberal as Ginsburg or Stevens. And if they wait until after the 2012 elections to retire there may well be a Republican president and a Republican Senate, and their replacements would be of the Roberts or Alito types.

Obama could have gotten three liberals confirmed in 2009, but only Souter retired. It is entirely possible that SCOTUS will lean a bit more to the right overall after Obama’s first (and likely only) term. Nobody thought that possible back in November 2008.