Posted on 12/10/2018 11:02:52 AM PST by mikelets456
The Supreme Court declined to review three cases relating to Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood at the state level Monday, over a vigorous dissent from Justice Clarence Thomas.
The dissent was significant because it indicates that Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided with the high court’s liberal wing to deny review of a lower court decision that favored the nation’s largest abortion provider.
“So what explains the Court’s refusal to do its job here?,” Thomas wrote. “I suspect it has something to do with the fact that some respondents in these cases are named ‘Planned Parenthood.'”
“Some tenuous connection to a politically fraught issue does not justify abdicating our judicial duty,” Thomas added. “If anything, neutrally applying the law is all the more important when political issues are in the background.”
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This sucks...so sorry that I supported Kavanaugh. He’s another Roberts.
Agree, totally. With dozens of contraceptive options, why can’t the rutting pigs be more responsible, before a new life is involved?
He’s trying to avoid Impeachment. Every man for himself
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Even if Kavanaugh went for it, John Roberts would have been the liberal vote that blocked it. John Roberts is really questionable.
So...
Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito are just reflex Conservatives who don't understand the Constitution?
This happens all the time. In 2017, Thomas was the only justice who voted to hear the case Leonard v. Texas, which involved civil-asset forfeitures. Did Alito not understand the Constitution simply because he didn't vote to hear the case?
Is Kavanaugh turning into a John Roberts clone, he of the s**t-eating grin?
Re: “This isn’t a ruling in a court case. It’s a decision about whether to hear a case or not.”
A distinction without a difference.
What percentage of Supreme Court Justices vote NOT to hear a case, then vote to overturn the lower court case when - or if - that case, or a similar case, reaches the Supreme Court?
Oh, and thank you in advance for your infinite Always-Trump glibness.
No matter who is appointed, no matter who is elected, we lose. The unborn lose. May God judge this nation ever so severely.
He wasn’t my pick - Barrett was. I had those concerns, particularly on abortion. I supported him because the left decided to falsely accuse him of gang rape. If he makes a habit of siding with those who accused him, I’ll say my initial concerns were correct. Had Trump picked Hardiman, he’d have gotten through and been pro-life. We likely wouldn’t have had the allegations, but then we also may not have kept the Senate in the midterms.
2. Thanks for the vote of confidence. I'm usually accused of being a RINO and a "Never Trumper" here. LOL.
I have read the details.
The Court's two verifiable Conservatives, plus a neophyte Conservative, voted to hear the case.
The four verifiable Leftists, the untested Conservative, and Chief Wobbly, all voted to reject it.
That tells me everything I need to know.
By the way, after scrolling through your Comment Archive, it appears you support Trump's nomination of William Barr.
In 1991, all eight Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to confirm William Barr as Attorney General.
That was essentially the same group of Democrats who destroyed Robert Bork, and who tried to destroy Clarence Thomas.
But they voted 8-0 for Barr.
Your thoughts?
Re: “I'm usually accused of being a RINO and a “Never Trumper” here. LOL.”
I don't see any evidence for that claim in your archive.
In fact, I found one more Comment where you are gratuitously trying to convince another Freeper that you often criticize Trump.
As to my claim that you are an Always-Trumper....
On the very first page of your Archive:
To AFret: “Go vote for Cory Booker if that pleases you. Please get off this website, in the meantime.”
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