Obama to nominate track guy for Supreme Court?

[gh]

Found this headline this afternoon

Inside Obama's Court Deliberations:
Sotomayor Most Mentioned

[Whitman]

Well, it is, after all, known as the "high" court

[ExCoastRanger]

He has certainly passed the Bar.

[Jack Slocombe]

Obama needs a spearchucker in the Supreme Court. Ther perfect one is Judge Luesebrink, a superior court judge in Calif. The judge attended Occidental College and threw 223' under coach Chuck Coker in the early 60s.

Did I mention that Obama attended Oxy?

[Pego]

Obama nominates Sonia Sotomayor. She solved the baseball strike in minutes after they had been at impasse for the whole season.

[jazzcyclist]

Obama nominates Sonia Sotomayor. She solved the baseball strike in minutes after they had been at impasse for the whole season.

Now the Republicans have to decide whether or not they will go after a Hispanic who was put on the Appeals Court by Bush 41. This is a shrewd move on Obama's part. I've read that when Antonin Scalia was nominated, there were Democrats who knew how conservative he was, but they didn't want to be seen as blocking the first Italian to the Supreme Court, lest they incur the wrath of the Italian community, not to mention Catholics. Consequently, Scalia was confirmed 98-0. By the way, if confirmed, Sotomayor will bring the number of Catholics on the court to six, with Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Roberts and Alito being the other five.

[TrackDaddy]

Catholics already have a majority as you said. And now even moreso pending the confirmation. As we know catholics are opposed to abortion as they demonstrated by the outrage of Obama speaking at Notre Dame.

Republicans have long campaigned using abortion as an issue.

That is, they've stated that having a president or elected official who opposes abortion is critical to their beliefs and platform. I suppose because of the president's authority to nominate high court candidates.

What I dont get is... most of the court has been nominated by republicans already and they've long held a majority, but abortion is still legal and probably forever will be. Prior to Obama only two democratic presidents held office in the last 40 years.

I realize that some people say their appointed majority has turncoated and therefore become liberal leaning?

But as a pro-lifer what it says to me is that they've had no intention or real ability to overturn Roe v Wade and was only using abortion as a tool to get reelected.

Even I realize at this point the chaos it would cause.

It seems it doesnt matter who the president is or who they nominate, abortion will be legal regardless.

[jazzcyclist]

Catholics already have a majority as you said. And now even moreso pending the confirmation. As we know catholics are opposed to abortion as they demonstrated by the outrage of Obama speaking at Notre Dame.

Republicans have long campaigned using abortion as an issue.

That is, they've stated that having a president or elected official who opposes abortion is critical to their beliefs and platform. I suppose because of the president's authority to nominate high court candidates.

What I dont get is... most of the court has been nominated by republicans already and they've long held a majority, but abortion is still legal and probably forever will be. Prior to Obama only two democratic presidents held office in the last 40 years.

I realize that some people say their appointed majority has turncoated and therefore become liberal leaning?

But as a prolifer what it says to me is that they've had no intention or real ability to overturn Roe v Wade and was only using abortion as a tool to get reelected.

Even I realize at this point the chaos it would cause.

It seems it doesnt matter who the president is or who they nominate, abortion will be legal regardless.

The reason why Roe vs Wade hasn't been overturn despite the number of Republican picks on the court is that not all of the picks were reliably conservative. Stevens, O'Connor, Kennedy and, especially Souter, have disappointed a lot of the people in the Republican base. In the future, I think Presidents will be unlikely to be surprised by their picks due to better vetting. Souter was an unknown when Bush 41 picked him. I don't think you'll have that happening again, as the Republican firestorm over Harriet Meyers proved.

[tandfman]

As we know catholics are opposed to abortion as they demonstrated by the outrage of Obama speaking at Notre Dame.

Catholics may be opposed to abortion, but not all Catholics believe that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided. One can believe that abortion is morally wrong but still believe that women should have the legal right to have an abortion if they so choose.

[jazzcyclist]

As we know catholics are opposed to abortion as they demonstrated by the outrage of Obama speaking at Notre Dame.

Catholics may be opposed to abortion, but not all Catholics believe that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided. One can believe that abortion is morally wrong but still believe that women should have the legal right to have an abortion if they so choose.

A more precise statement would be that "the Roman Catholic church officially opposes abortion". However, American Catholics support abortion rights in the same proportion as non-Catholics. The Roman Catholic church also officially opposes the death penalty and birth control. As this video shows, most Catholics cherry-pick their tenets.

[Halfmiler2]

As we know catholics are opposed to abortion as they demonstrated by the outrage of Obama speaking at Notre Dame.

Catholics may be opposed to abortion, but not all Catholics believe that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided. One can believe that abortion is morally wrong but still believe that women should have the legal right to have an abortion if they so choose.

Conversely, one can also believe that abortion should be legal, but that Roe v. Wade was wrongfully decided. Abortion was already legal in a number of states as decided by elected state legislatures, not by judges who make it up as they go along based on their personal biases. If Roe v. Wade got overturned, the issues would simply go back to the states. A few would probably outlaw it entirely, a few would keep it entirely legal, and most would restrict it to varying degrees.

[Halfmiler2]

Catholics already have a majority as you said. And now even moreso pending the confirmation. As we know catholics are opposed to abortion as they demonstrated by the outrage of Obama speaking at Notre Dame.

Republicans have long campaigned using abortion as an issue.

That is, they've stated that having a president or elected official who opposes abortion is critical to their beliefs and platform. I suppose because of the president's authority to nominate high court candidates.

What I dont get is... most of the court has been nominated by republicans already and they've long held a majority, but abortion is still legal and probably forever will be. Prior to Obama only two democratic presidents held office in the last 40 years.

I realize that some people say their appointed majority has turncoated and therefore become liberal leaning?

But as a pro-lifer what it says to me is that they've had no intention or real ability to overturn Roe v Wade and was only using abortion as a tool to get reelected.

Even I realize at this point the chaos it would cause.

It seems it doesnt matter who the president is or who they nominate, abortion will be legal regardless.

I fail to see any resulting chaos. If Roe v. Wade were overturned, the matter would simply be sent back to the states most of whom would probably restrict but not eliminate abortion. Abortion was already legal in places such as NY before Roe v. Wade.

[TrackDaddy]

Great points all around friends.

Halfmiler

You dont believe there'd be chaos if Roe v Wade was overturned?

Don't you believe that some states would repeal it (75% of Texans voted to amend their constitution to define marriage as between a man and woman)?

Wouldnt a black market be created in that scenario?

[ranunculus]

Wouldnt a black market be created in that scenario?

Its business size would match that of marijuana.

[jazzcyclist]

The fact that Sotomayor is Catholic, and she has no paper trail or past rulings on abortion, has some abortion rights activists worried.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/us/po ... ss&emc=rss