Posted on 01/05/2020 5:25:38 AM PST by Morgana
Washington (CNN)More than 200 members of Congress are urging the Supreme Court to reconsider -- if not overrule -- the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion nationwide. Thirty-nine Republican senators and 168 members of the House of Representatives, almost all of them Republicans, signed a so-called "friend of the court" brief filed on Thursday by the national anti-abortion group Americans United for Life in connection with a challenge to a Louisiana abortion access law due to be heard in March. The signers include Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Mike Lee and Mitt Romney of Utah, and Tim Scott of South Carolina as well as Reps. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Steve Chabot of Ohio. At least two Democrats -- Reps. Collin Peterson of Minnesota and Dan Lipinski of Illinois -- are among the lawmakers who signed.
The brief argues that "Roe's jurisprudence has been haphazard from the beginning." The decision "remains a radically unsettled precedent" that "has been substantially undermined by subsequent authority," the group continues, adding that court rulings since Roe "clearly did not settle the abortion issue." The group urges the justices to "reconsider those precedents." The Louisiana case before the court does not directly target Roe. The law at issue requires a doctor to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the facility where the abortion is performed, which critics say is not medically justified. The Republican brief comes on the heels of nearly 200 congressional Democrats filing a brief last month defending Roe and Louisiana abortion providers.
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Anyone can petition the SC on any case and for any reason.
And here is the link to the brief filed in support of Respondent
May you and all your loved ones have a blessed day, week, and year.
I’m looking for the WSJ section with the article, but it might be in the bathroom with one of my sons.
The democrats realize that their people aren’t going to come out to vote if they don’t create a frenzy. Whip, whip and whip to get them back on the plantation. The party of the Klan is desperate.
This is a different filing involving some (Democrat) states and the (Democrat-majority) Congress. In this case, the House of Representatives passed something. It looks like this is more common than I realized, although I still think it’s anti-republican, in the philosophical sense, for elected officials (state or Federal) to have to go begging to the black-robed demigods.
“A good start would be to defund Planned Abortionhood.”
Congress neglects to do what is certainly in their power to do.
But then postures on this issue, which they don’t have ANY influence over.
Just to keep you voting for them.
Sounds to me like somebody wants to get democrats riled up for the election
Roe vs Wade must be overturned. It violates the 10th and 11th Amendments to the Constitution. Read below:
10th AMENDMENT
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
11TH AMENDMENT
The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.
At this point, what difference does it make. The baby wasn’t aborted and is now in middle age. The court can’t rule except on an actual case, not in advisory capacity. So until there’s a state law outlawing abortion that the SCOTUS can review, with a plaintiff who has standing to contest the constitutionality of the law as it pertains to her, i.e., that she’s preggers and lives in that state, and wants to abort, this is just plain posturing.
That law is not going to pass the House of Representatives.
Likely not now. But you take a stand and defend it. And you don’t limit yourself to one action.
To do nothing is the same as accepting & approving.
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