Posted on 08/28/2015 10:42:13 AM PDT by fungoking
Donald Trump told Mark Halperin yesterday that his sister, a federal judge, would be a “phenomenal” Supreme Court justice. He also said that “we will have to rule that out now, at least.” If he ever becomes president, let’s hope he rules it out permanently.
Maryanne Trump Barry came up in my book The Party of Death for writing one of those heated judicial decisions in favor of giving constitutional protection to partial-birth abortion. She called a New Jersey law against it a “desperate attempt” to undermine Roe v. Wade. It was, she wrote, “based on semantic machinations, irrational line-drawing, and an obvious attempt to inflame public opinion instead of logic or medical evidence.” It made no difference where the fetus was when it “expired.”
So: The right of abortionists to make a child “expire” by partially extracting her from the womb, sticking scissors in the back of her head, vacuuming out her brain, and crushing her skull to complete her extraction, is right there in the Constitution. But let’s please not have any “semantic machinations.”
Laws against partial-birth abortion had strong bipartisan support. They were attempts to mark an outer limit to the abortion right of Roe. If unborn children could not be protected within the womb, could they at least be protected when partway out? That would be illogical, said Judge Barry. But if the location of fetal death does not matter, then it could hardly matter if the child was all the way outside the womb. Laws against infanticide, too, must be dismissed as irrational line-drawing. The intellectual architect of the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, Hadley Arkes, mentions Judge Barry’s decision in his book on the origin of that law, explaining that it was in part designed to head off the dangerous implications of such rulings.
The Supreme Court eventually ruled that partial-birth abortion could be outlawed—but it did so by a margin of one. It’s understandable that Trump would praise his sister. But when candidates praise relatives who have served in public office—whether they’re members of the Bush, Paul, Clinton, or Trump families—voters are entitled to keep those relatives’ records in mind.
Trump is loyal to his family. His sister was originally appointed a Federal Judge by Bush 41.
Not surprising considering he shared her opinions on this up until the magic of 2011.
“Phenomenal” is faint praise coming from Trump. That word gets tossed around a lot. “The salads at this place are phenomenal.”
Hit piece. She voted exactly the same as Sam Alito. It was a technical ruling not on merits of argument. Read the actual ruling.
it’s Trumpian for “bless her heart”
A thread from yesterday with some 100+ comments if anyone is interested.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3330070/posts
Thank you.
When did we start listening again to the elitists at National Review?
So Trump’s not supposed to say positive things about his family now?
Do you have any family members? It’s what you would say.
Stop with the TDS.
Most people hate their sister. This is an important strike against Trump.
My kid sister's a "progressive" and I *do* love her.But never in a million years would I want to see her within 1000 miles of the Supreme Court.
Bump.
NRO for Bush and the GOPE
LoL.
So what?
George Bush’s father gave us David Souter!
Which one do you think has done worse for the abortion cause?
Wow—there is nothing those weenies at NR won’t stoop to try to smear Trump. (They, who always go for the Establishment mush, suddenly are upset that Trump doesn’t pass their purity test?!?)
He can praise his sister and still be against abortion............
Trump is SO loyal to his family....
(All respond together:) "How loyal is he?"
He's SO loyal, he thinks his sister would be a GREAT SCOTUS justice!
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