Posted on 12/10/2018 7:35:37 AM PST by GIdget2004
The Supreme Court Monday rebuffed efforts by states to block funding to Planned Parenthood.
It left in place two lower court opinions that said that states violate federal law when they terminate Medicaid contracts with Planned Parenthood affiliates who offer preventive care for low income women.
It would have taken four justices to agree to hear the issue, and only three conservative justices -- Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch -- voted to hear the case.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh appeared to side with the court's liberals in not taking up the case -- showing an effort to avoid high-profile abortion-related issues for now.
Roberts and Kavanaugh "likely have serious objections," said Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at the University of Texas School of Law. "But such votes seem to be a signal that they would rather avoid contentious, high-profile disputes for now, at least where possible."
The case concerned whether states can block Medicaid funds from Planned Parenthood affiliates that provide such women with annual health screens, contraceptive coverage and cancer screening.
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'It's certainly the surest avenue that should be relentlessly pursued. Did Lincoln 'defund' slavery, or did Lincoln render slavery utterly unconstitutional for all time with the 13th Amendment?
Well said.
"....The Emancipation Proclamation, or Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It changed the federal legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the designated areas of the South from slave to free. As soon as a slave escaped the control of the Confederate government, by running away or through advances of federal troops, the former slave became free.........The Proclamation ordered the freedom of all slaves in ten states.[3] Because it was issued under the president's authority to suppress rebellion (war powers), it necessarily excluded areas not in rebellion, but still applied to more than 3.5 million of the 4 million slaves. The Proclamation was based on the president's constitutional authority as commander in chief of the armed forces..."
It was never challenged in court and to be honest, the "taking" of property might have made for an argument, as loathsome as it might sound.
'...The Emancipation Proclamation broadened the goals of the Civil War. While slavery had been a major issue that led to the war, Lincoln's only mission at the start of the war was to maintain the Union. The Proclamation made freeing the slaves an explicit goal of the Union war effort. Establishing the abolition of slavery as one of the two primary war goals served to deter intervention by Britain and France..........Lincoln pushed for passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, and insisted that Reconstruction plans for Southern states require abolition in new state constitutions. Congress passed the 13th Amendment by the necessary two-thirds vote on January 31, 1865, and it was ratified by the states on December 6, 1865, ending legal slavery."
And there was another 100 years of segregation and Jim Crow laws perpetrated by the southern Democrats which resulted in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voters Rights Act of 1965. And it still took nearly endless litigation to enforce the law. The racist southern Democrats were no friends of minorities, but children of today are never taught about those days. I am old enough to remember reading in school textbooks in the 1950's about the "Solid South" and that was a solid Democratic south, enforced by Democratic segregationists.
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It will take a constitutional amendment to ensure the life and liberty of the unborn in America. No de-funding on the state or federal level will ever stop the murder of those lives.
“The only way to get past the evil on the Supreme Court is to have a Constitutional Amendment.”
Good idea.
Why do they get to stay there if they are not doing their job.
Another article:
“,,Thomas said the court made a “mess” of the matter, and blamed the other justices for not wanting to touch a case involving the abortion giant Planned Parenthood.
“What explains the court’s refusal to do its job here? I suspect it has something to do with the fact that some respondents in these cases are named ‘Planned Parenthood,’” Thomas wrote in his dissenting opinion. ..”
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Bump
And the bizarre thing is a bunch of Kavanaugh supporters touted that fact as a GOOD thing. Trump gave us Merrick Garland Lite! HOORAY!!!
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