SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Amy Coney Barrett: Who is Trump's Supreme Court pick?:
Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the US Supreme Court comes as little surprise.
[...] Donald Trump - who as sitting president gets to select nominees - reportedly once said he was "saving her" for this moment: when elderly Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died and a vacancy on the nine-member court arose.
It took the president just over a week to fast-track the 48-year-old conservative intellectual into the wings. This is his chance to tip the court make-up even further to the right ahead of the presidential election, when he could lose power.
Barrett's record on gun rights and immigration cases imply she would be as reliable a vote on the right of the court, as Ginsburg was on the left, according to Jonathan Turley, a professor of law at George Washington University.
"Ginsburg maintained one of the most consistent liberal voting records in the history of the court. Barrett has the same consistency and commitment," he adds. "She is not a work-in-progress like some nominees. She is the ultimate 'deliverable' for conservative votes."
And her vote, alongside a conservative majority, could make the difference for decades ahead, especially on divisive issues such as abortion rights and the Affordable Care Act (the Obama-era health insurance provider).
Barrett's legal opinions and remarks on abortion and gay marriage have made her popular with the religious right, but earned vehement opposition from liberals.
But as a devout Catholic, she has repeatedly insisted her faith does not compromise her work.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) is facing considerable controversy about his plans to move the nomination forward quickly:
"President Trump could not have made a better decision," Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the majority leader, said in a statement. "Judge Amy Coney Barrett is an exceptionally impressive jurist and an exceedingly well-qualified nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States."
He added: "First, Judge Barrett built a reputation as a brilliant scholar at the forefront of the legal academy. Then she answered the call to public service. For three years on the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, she has demonstrated exactly the independence, impartiality, and fidelity to our laws and Constitution that Americans need and deserve on their highest Court... As I have stated, this nomination will receive a vote on the Senate floor in the weeks ahead, following the work of the Judiciary Committee supervised by Chairman Graham."
This is in sharp contrast to McConnell's actions following US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's passing away on February 13, 2016. McConnell waited less than 2 hours to make the first of 5 statements to urging delay in nominating a new Supreme Court justice:
The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president
That statement was made with 342 days (over 11 months) remaining in Obama's term as President. There are 124 days (just over 4 months) remaining before the end of Trump's term.
President Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland to fill the vacancy. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) followed McConnell's lead and never allowed the confirmation process to begin. Thus, no nomination was ever brought to the Senate floor and thereby leaving the vacancy open.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Sunday September 27 2020, @08:58PM (19 children)
Amy Coney Barrett seems like a solid choice. I am glad Trump has nominated another woman to the court. I admire that she has had so many kids and has been nominated for one of the highest offices in the country; that is somebody who has it all and will be an inspiration, an icon, to women and girls all over the country for many years to come. I am glad that I live in a country where I can point her out to my daughter and say that there is an example of how to live her life to the fullest.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by turgid on Sunday September 27 2020, @09:03PM (6 children)
You'd be proud to point her out to your daughters, who would remove some of your daughters' rights? I think that might backfire.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 27 2020, @10:01PM
Don't let a Limey keep you down, Phoenix. They never had freedom to begin with.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday September 27 2020, @11:03PM (4 children)
You think it's a right because you are framing it that way. Amy Coney Barrett would likely say the fetus's right to life trumps the mother's right to abortion.
I personally prefer women to have the choice, while feeling more and more that abortion is a terrible decision to be forced to consider. It is also staggering to read that black women have aborted 40 million babies; that's a huge number of babies lost, and has done the black community no favors.
That said, I suspect that even if the court strikes down Roe vs. Wade that abortion will continue to be legal in most states, because times have changed.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday September 27 2020, @11:42PM (2 children)
Since things come down to religion for both you and Barret, I want to ask: do the souls of aborted zygotes, embryos, and fetuses go straight to heaven? Justify you answer, and consider the historical voices on the subject.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by melikamp on Monday September 28 2020, @04:33AM (1 child)
Barret and her ilk (actually, nearly all large Christian sects from year 400 and on) believe in dogma that only works for people who don't read the Bible. Jews believed abortion was a sin, but Christians are not Jews, and don't follow the Jewish canon. Christians' traditional holy scriptures do not mention the abortion once. They also contain countless instances of their god commanding the killing of non-Jews, and by killing I mean murder and genocide. Recall what Joshua actually does in Palestine just pages after Moses hands down "Thou shall not kill". The commandments are Jewish legal code, no more, no less, as evidenced by the Pentateuch itself.
Contrary to the popular opinion, the New Testament only reinforces the position that killing a human being is not inherently sinful just by itself. Jesus invites a highway robber into heaven at the cross. God slays misers in Acts. In Luke, which is perhaps the most authentic Gospel available to us, "Soldiers also asked him, “And we, what shall we do?” And he said to them, “Do not extort money from anyone by threats or by false accusation, and be content with your wages.”" Slaying innocents on orders from Rome somehow didn't come up.
None of this matters, of course, to people who do not read the Bible, or people who read it after decades of brainwashing, and are unable to understand even the most basic elements of the plot. The oral tradition and the church ritual were crafted over millennia to numb children's inquisitive brains when it comes to the Scriptures, so that they can only be misunderstood.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 28 2020, @05:58AM
They did, did they? [wikipedia.org] There is nothing to kill as there is nothing to kill based on Jewish and Christian tradition that life begins at first breath. But none of this matters as you said. You can't reason someone away from an emotional decision.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 28 2020, @03:53AM
I guess you haven't seen her other positions then. She is one of those "a woman's place is in the home" types that want to end suffrage for women, support discrimination in public areas of life as arising from complementarianism, and making male headship the law of the land. There are even more damning anti-woman positions she has given in the past that have slowly been wiped from the internet. But then again, maybe you want your daughters to lie for Jesus so they can aspire to go back to their highest calling in life, the kitchen. And in that case, I really hope they don't turn out to be LGBT.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 27 2020, @09:15PM (7 children)
Then you've never been a liberal, you merely cosplayed one because Democrats were closer to the original concept of Republicans. Pretty sad that you want a SC justice who is a member of an organization that has "wives must obey their husbands" as one of their core principles.
You are THE most disappointing user around here. Others are worse, but you disappoint the most.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday September 28 2020, @01:21PM (6 children)
I have never been a liberal. I have always been, and have always said so, that I am a progressive in the Teddy Roosevelt, Progressive Party of 1912, sense of "progressive." Read an excerpt from their party platform in 1912:
Or, later:
Those are things I still believe, which they pioneered.
The Democratic Party, with its new identity politics and wokeness, does not believe those things but instead has synthesized Marxism and Apartheid, washed over with Goebbels' brush strokes.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 28 2020, @10:38PM (2 children)
So Fox has made you insane. At least it isn't 100% your own fault. What is a guppy to do against the coordinated efforts of the oligarchy?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday September 29 2020, @01:23PM (1 child)
I don't watch Fox. I don't listen to Limbaugh. I don't watch Glenn Beck. Reason led me to where I have always been, and remain. It is you who insanity has carried away. Marxism kills. Apartheid is wrong. Goebbels was evil. Reject them.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 29 2020, @06:53PM
Then stop supporting Trump just because you don't like the DNC! Or are your words just empty trolling? You complain about Cancel Culture while defending the most cancel culture group around, Republicans. You keep saying liberals are the real fascists while always defending the literal fascists who have attacked peaceful protesters, one being a pastor and her congregation on church property and illegal kidnapping of citizens with bags over heads and unmarked vehicles. The party constantly attacking freedom of the press, y'know, the standard dictator playbook.
So please, spare us your bullshit. Join the protests against Trump, the real fascist, and I will gladly stop mocking your posts about cancel culture. Continue your hypocrisy and expect to be called out.
(Score: 2) by Oakenshield on Tuesday September 29 2020, @12:17PM (2 children)
This cannot be overstated. I read an article where a liberal writer tried to claim that replacing RBG with another white woman was not inclusive enough and stated that it would have been better to pick some (any?) unnamed black woman as Joe Biden has promised. This staggers the mind that the progressives would so baldly advocate such an obvious racist position. Liberals take note. This is why conservatives are eager to appoint and confirm judges. Your candidate likes to pick his running mate and appointees based upon skin color rather than merits. "Anti-racists" should be outraged, but they are not.
That is why I snorted coffee on my keyboard when I read above where some anonymous coward unironically wrote in a thread complaining about the personal beliefs of Ms. Barrett, "You can't reason someone away from an emotional decision." This has been the hallmark of the liberal left over the last four years. There is barely a day that passes where I do not read something published from a liberal and find it hard to believe that an adult wrote it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 29 2020, @07:04PM (1 child)
Some people believe in equal representation, and when one group of people is routinely excluded from representation others believe it is important to make up for that lapse. For an analogy that might help you let us consider how small states with tiny populations have an excessive impact on election results. Seems like a much bigger problem to me, undermining the very foundation of our Democracy. Where is ykur outrage there? Why no anger about that level of preferential treatment?
Oh right, just another right winger triggered by any attempt to correct systemic racism. Can you say Black Lives Matter?
(Score: 2) by Oakenshield on Wednesday September 30 2020, @12:47AM
Well of course you believe that two wrongs make a right, Mr. Anonymous Coward. If there is nothing else we can take to the bank as an iron clad guarantee, it is the hypocrisy of the left. From Speaker Pelosi's disdain for the little people when she ignores salon lockdown rules that her peons must honor, to Senator Feinstein's desire for a nationwide mask mandate, excepting of course for her. If there's another another expectation from the left, it's mob rule is always best, assuming the mob works in your favor. I know it's a problem for them that California and New York cannot choose all the government for all the other 48 states, but c'est la vie. For some reason, I just can't get outraged that the Electoral College works as designed when it was designed that way for a reason.
By the way, we have a republic, not a democracy. You would probably know that if you hadn't gone to a progressive grade school.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 27 2020, @10:41PM (3 children)
And the Abrahamist right-wing finally offers to adopt feminism after decades of feminist perfidy.
Like all right-wingers, parent is being deceitful. He really wants to sound like he believes that women should hold power. The strategy actually is to play the game by the rules, to the letter, including temporarily appearing to support women's rights, while rolling women's rights back to the 19th century. When the 19th Amendment is repealed by menstrual legislators and/or governors, don't say I didn't warn you.
Having a menstrual cycle is no guarantee of support for women's liberation, and until feminists fucking get this, our rights are going to continue to be thrown in the trash by people who fucking do have fucking menstrual cycles.
But he'll keep your fucking pussy safe from imaginary bathroom rapists!
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday September 27 2020, @11:42PM
Wish I had more mod points so I could mod this up. This is *exactly* what he's doing.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday September 27 2020, @11:43PM (1 child)
Although...what's with this "menstrual" thing? My next period starts in about 8-10 days according to the calendar and you sure as hell won't see me acting like that. Are you an angry transwoman?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 28 2020, @06:07AM
I think that it is a reference to ciswomen and transmen. It is awfully close to the repeated statements of J.K. Rowling, and anti-trans in general, and you have to keep in mind that to many anti-trans, transwomen are men and transmen don't exist because they always forget about them. Other than that insight, I'd be divining intentions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 28 2020, @07:43PM
http://banned.video/watch?id=5f6d2de7ab9d44099a996102 [banned.video]