Posted on 06/01/2009 10:38:50 AM PDT by pissant
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Thursday assured abortion-rights groups that Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor shares President Obama's views on constitutional protection for a right to privacy and a woman's right to abortion, the Washington Post reports. Although many abortion-rights groups have welcomed the nomination, some have voiced concern over Sotomayor's limited judicial record on cases involving abortion rights, especially the right to privacy that forms the basis for Roe v. Wade.
Gibbs said that although Obama did not specifically ask Sotomayor about abortion rights during preliminary interviews, the White House is certain she agrees with the president on the constitutionality of Roe. Obama and Sotomayor "talked about the theory of constitutional interpretation, generally, including her views on unenumerated rights in the Constitution and the theory of settled law," Gibbs said, adding that Obama felt "very comfortable with her interpretation of the Constitution being similar to that of his." In a 2007 campaign debate, Obama said he would not nominate "somebody who doesn't believe in the right to privacy," which the Supreme Court ruled gave women the right to terminate a pregnancy. Obama administration officials also said that they held private conversations on Thursday with groups on both sides of the abortion debate.
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It’s the Age of Obama.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is a dope...
Gibbs is making Sotomayor look like a sock puppet
Which for a cretin like Gibbs, is beyond irony
Of course. There was never any doubt. 0bama would never nominate someone who would anger the angry fang-toothed feminazis who consistently sent money to the democrats.
Obama: “Don’t worry folks! She keep allowing pregnant women to be able to kill their unborn babies”
The Left: “Whew”
The Republicans: “Hmmmm, lets attack Obama for...his date with his wife”
She’s also pro La Raza (being a member of the racist group whose name means “The Race”), so expect that she’d be in favor of the mexican reconquista of the southwest into the independent nation of Atzlan.
Can’t anyone be able to get out there and make the case that a woman who belongs to a group called “The Race” that thinks the mexican race is a ‘superior’ one, can’t anyone kind of bring up the fact that it’s kind of an Aryan racist naming convention - you know, that kooky group of guys and gals that brought us “The Master Race” phrase?
Anti-capitalism, anti-middle class taxpayers, anti-responsibility, anti-morals, anti-America, anti-freedoms, anti-Constitution, anti-thruth, anti-Christian, anti...
Don’t worry though. I am sure Obama and the dems will say it’s not a litmus test. They aren’t playing politics with the Supreme Court.
I thought litmus tests were bad.
ObamaSpeak to English Translation:
Obama specifically asked Sotomayor about abortion rights during preliminary interviews
"Now come on. Are you so foolish as to think I would EVER nominate anyone who wasn't every bit the enthusiastic supporter of infanticide that I am?" ---President Obortion
Life tenure let Souter cut loose from his moorings . . . .
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