Also from this article: The bigger problem is that Trump's general hostility toward limited government conservatism indicates that he would not want to appoint a constitutionalist to the Supreme Court. Trump still supports allowing the government to seize private property for commercial use, and a Supreme Court justice who shares this view will almost certainly be a liberal activist on issues across the board. Even if Trump wanted to appoint a constitutionalist, there's no reason to think he'd know how to pick one in the first place.

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Big question: Who do you Trust more on the Courts?

Every projection shows Trump getting crushed by Hillary so it’s a moot issue.

Donald Trump on Abortion

I am now pro-life; after years of being pro-choice:

Donald Trump shocked attendees at the conservative CPAC conference in February when he declared himself pro-life after years of supporting the pro-abortion position. Several months ago, when questioned about his position, Trump responded by saying the public "would be surprised" by his stance and, in an interview with Laura Ingraham from Fox News leading up to the conference, Trump characterized himself as "pro-life" and he repeated that apparent reversal when he told the audience at CPAC, "I am pro-life" and pledged to fight for the reversal of ObamaCare, which contains abortion funding loopholes.

As the 2012 race intensifies, pro-life advocates must call upon Donald Trump to further explain his stand on important pro-life issues like Supreme Court nominations and repeal of the pro-abortion Obama healthcare law.

Source: Steven Ertelt in LifeNews.com , Apr 8, 2011

I changed my views to pro-life based on personal stories:

Q: Evangelicals want to feel secure that they're going to have a nominee that's solid on those social issues.

A: One thing about me, I'm a very honorable guy. I'm pro-life, but I changed my view a number of years ago. One of the primary reasons I changed [was] a friend of mine's wife was pregnant, and he didn't really want the baby. He was crying as he was telling me the story. He ends up having the baby and the baby is the apple of his eye. It's the greatest thing that's ever happened to him. And you know here's a baby that wasn't going to be let into life. And I heard this, and some other stories, and I am pro-life.

Q: So those stories did change you, they came around and changed you?

A: They changed me. Yeah, they changed my view as to that, absolutely.

Source: David Brody interview on CBN.com , Apr 8, 2011

I am pro-life; fight ObamaCare abortion funding:

Billionaire Donald Trump told the Conservative Political Action Conference that he's thinking about running for president. His remarks drew lots of applause and cheers from the crowd, who will play a key role in grass-roots organizing for the eventual 2012 GOP presidential nominee. "I'm well acquainted with winning," Trump said. "That's what this country needs now."

Source: The America We Deserve, by Donald Trump, p. 31-32 , Jul 2, 2000

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15 posted on 01/16/2016 10:51:28 AM PST by true believer forever (Trump 2016 - I never knew an entire country could have an ephiphany!)

It depends on what “Great Deal” he wants.

Yes. Next question.

Would he be pro gay Marriage? Yes. Next question.

Would he appoint conservative judges? No. Next question.

Is he a con artist. Yes. Next question.

Trump would fund planned parenthood. He said it. Trump trashed Cruz for not making deals with dems who want to fund planned parenthood.

It depends on what’s going on at the time and what will make America Great.

He never defined “pro-life”. Nobody asked him when life begins or whether he was anti abortion. He’s about as pro life as some of the politicians he has donated to. Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid.

Only if we could have aborted Obama.

Divide and conquer. Oldest war move on the books.

I trust Cruz ON the court......less so in the White Hut.

Question??? Which would you rather have Cruz on the SC for the rest of his life, or Cruz in the WH for 4 (8) years?

Cruz on the Court would protect us for generations.....

Put the round plug in the round hole.......its Elementary!

Trump would fund planned parenthood. He said it.

Truth is not your strong suit I see.

Trump has repeatedly said that PP needs to be defunded completely, and refers to the recent videos as he does so.

As mentioned in related threads, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to appropriate tax dollars to pay for abortions.

In fact, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified, in broad terms, that Congress cannot appropriate taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue which Congress cannot ustify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, paying for abortions not among those enumerated powers.

”Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

The reason that the corrupt Washington cartel has been appropriating taxes for years to pay for abortions is because pro-abortion activist justices not only stole legislative branch powers to establish such a right from the bench, but they breached the Founding States division of state and federal government powers and stole 10th Amendment protected state legislative powers to do so.

So even if Trump is a pro-abortion president, it remains that the House does not have the constitutional authority to appropriate revenues to pay for vote-winning abortions.

Remember in November !

So if patriots elect Trump, or whatever conservative they elect, they will also need to elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its Section 8-limited powers to support the president.

Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.

As long as we have a court that is going to decide the direction of our society for us without recourse, then that’s what it’s going to do.

No one’s positions on those issues matter except for the court’s positions.

In fact, no one’s positions on any issues matter except for the courts positions, should the court decide to decide whatever issue for us.

As long as we leave that court in place as it is, there is no point in complaining about being ruled by it, because apparently that is what we want.

The chances that abortion on demand would do anything but continue unabated is ZERO.

Trump has said planned parenthood does some good things and he would fund those good things.

No evidence trump is pro-life. Pro-lifers know how evil planned parenthood is and would never say it does some good things.

And Trump wants his sister on the Supreme Court. She supports partial birth abortions. Tells me all I need to know about him.

The problem is that Trump has had so many different positions on the issues that no one knows where he stands as of today. He’s everything to everybody.......scary....

“The GOP front-runner [Trump] said in an interview Tuesday that he supported the status quo when it comes to Planned Parenthood. The group couldnâ€™t be more pleased.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/11/donald-trump-is-planned-parenthood-s-favorite-republican.html#

You might be a little careful about calling someone a liar.

Trump has repeatedly said that PP needs to be defunded completely, and refers to the recent videos as he does so.

So did he walk this back (from Oct19)?

When asked about the smaller non-abortion component of what Planned Parenthood does, Trump appeared to be alright with taxpayer funding. "What I would do when the time came, I'd look at the individual things they do, and maybe some of the individual things they do are good. I know a lot of the things are bad. But certainly the abortion aspect of it should not be funded by government, absolutely," he said.

ve had the discussion here about the "Good things" PP does. We ha