Hawaiian judges hardest hit.
Via Instapundit, another judge appointed.
President Trump has been remaking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, shifting further and further to the right. On Wednesday he got another victory with the confirmation of Kenneth Lee in a 52-45 vote. And Democrats are really miffed about this one….
Lee who had a unanimously “well qualified rating from the American Bar Association, is Trump’s 40th circuit judge to be confirmed, even though Democrats were hoping to block his nomination.
Democrats tried to “blue slip” the judge. That is a tradition increasingly ignored — it permits the Senator of a judge’s home state to exercise a one-woman veto over a nominee by refusing to return a “blue slip” regarding his nomination. Kamala “Stoney” Harris tried that, as did the decrepit Dianne Feinstein, and Lindsey Graham just said “Nah brah” and voted him out of committee anyway.
Also via Instapundit, Deb Heine writes that Trump could flip this circuit.
Democrats could be losing their safe haven for extra-constitutional judiciary decisions. They may be forced to follow the law! Oh, my!
The courts are not supposed to be republican or democrat, either one. Nor does the fact that they frequently disagree with a right-wing political agenda necessarily mean that they are democrat. But try telling that to anyone who views the world through a right-wing political lens.
A clue here is that those who have hijacked the GOP can’t tolerate moderate opposing opinions, even from those within the republican party. They’ll proclaim such views anathema and those who hold them heretics.
@Greg: “well qualified rating from the American Bar Association, whats wrong with that? Is the Bar Association a right wing group?
notoriously liberal court
—Start of Trump’s term: 19D 6R
—Next Week: 16D 11R
—Soon: 16D 13R
Judges shouldnt be D or R, they should not be activists, they should look at a case and judge it by upholding the constitution.
Right. And they become activists the moment their decisions fail to parallel the “conservative” agenda.
Roe v. Wade has been upheld by the courts for over 45 years. It’s the law. So tell me, who is hoping to rob women of their constitutionally-guaranteed right to choose by packing the courts with activist judges?
That the left is doing this is typical right-wing projection. It’s the right that is hoping to upset the entire apple cart.
@Greg:
Absolutely correct. So when they make a decision that Trump cannot restrict immigration of people from dangerous areas because THEY interpret it as a Muslim ban (which was NOT), it is clear ideology is driving the bus. By “Republican”, what is indicated is someone that uses the Constitution to develop decisions, not the politics of the day.
Cite that “constitutionally guaranteed right” that declares an abortion, at any time in the pregnancy, and to kill a baby even AFTER birth is specified.
No… the left IS doing it and the 9th Circuit is the worst, which is why Democrats always try to funnel their cases through them.
@Greg:
Only congress can create law thats in the constitution. Thats why the left fears it coming before a different court without a woman that later admitted she lied. Can you please cite which amendment gives a woman the right to murder another human that she created, without good cause. I never saw the words healthcare or abortion in the founding documents.
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/epic-video-female-snowflake-steals-sign-cries-during-perp-walk/
@kitt, #6:
Which amendment gives a president the right to order soldiers to murder the citizens of other countries in times of war? Which amendment gives governors of our various states the right to sign the execution order of convicted criminals?
Are you going to tell me that those killings are not legally defined as murder? Fine. Let’s recognize that legal definitions matter. Stop using the word. It makes for a dishonest argument.
@Greg: No Greg you and the left do not own definitions to twist them at will.
Article II Section 2 for the CIC
The Eighth Amendment for the death penalty as long as it is not cruel or unusual.
Murder is a premeditated action, on a single being, the death penalty is a punishment for acts a person was convicted of.
No one wants these things there is no glory in any of it.
If a woman takes proper precautions easily available and males take precautions easily available then the entire subject of unwanted pregnancies would be extremely rare.
Step back and take a good look it was suppose to be rare 43.25 million babies never given the chance in America No life liberty or pursuit of happiness.
The zealots pushing and pushing and pushing til full term in labor and you can abort.
They pushed it to the breaking line. Your side broke it.
What you see is the rubber-band of tolerance stretched beyond its limit.
There is no definition in this context except for the legal definition. The law does not define abortion is murder and does not treat it as such. It’s the right that is trying to change that legal definition using every means at their disposal, one being to conflate fetuses with babies. Another is to pretend late-term abortions are typical situations, and that people make this choice for purely arbitrary reasons. The fact of the matter is that most of your arguments are dishonest, as much of the anti-Planned Parenthood propaganda is dishonest. Which, of course, will be denied, no matter what evidence is offered.
You also deny what your intentions boil down to, with all that it entails: You want to empower the State to dictate what decisions women may and may not make with respect to their own bodies and reproductive functions. They would mandate that rape and incest victims be further victimized; that women who learn early that their pregnancies will eventually result severely disabled children be forced to allow that to happen; that doctors and women be spied on, and prevented from making decisions that somebody else disapproves of, and severely punished if they do.
This cannot be allowed to happen. The State simply has no business making such intrusive laws. Those who think it does must be removed from power. The actually understand the fundamental principles of the Constitution they claim to defend.
@Greg: Its too late Greg the left has pushed into the criminally insane area and this is the backlash. It always the assholes that have to ruin it for everyone. Shout your abortion, no limit on demand abortion. It is happening, let the women take responsibility. Rape victims get the day after pill, the old arguments just dont even have an effect anymore, none. The left just never knows where the line is or will boldly step over that line and say, whacha gonna do about it. Suck it up State by state is saying enough.
I wont stop with murder as long as they call abortion “womens health.” Abortion Four Times Deadlier Than Childbirth, if they kept real records that would likely be higher.
@kitt:
Don’t you get it? IT’S THE BABY’S FAULT! This gal was just wanting to have a good time and she up and got pregnant because that baby attacked her, so the baby deserves to die.
@Greg:
WHAT law? There is none. However, some liberal legislators, Presidential candidates, are pushing to MAKE it a law. You like that idea? You like the idea of debating what life is, when life begins and when a life gets Constitutional rights? You like the idea of codifying rules, regulations and restrictions of abortion? If it goes through the legislature, it’s not going to be the blank check to abort up to and beyond the moment of birth. I think it’s a GREAT idea.
You liberal abortion-lovers had it pretty good for a while, but you just couldn’t control your big mouths. Just abortion for any reason at a reasonable time wasn’t good enough. No, you had to have FULL CONTROL of life or death and demand to be able to kill whenever the notion strikes, even AFTER the baby is born; just lay it out and let it die. Hey, you didn’t KILL it… it just died, right?
Well, it looks like you f**ked up, doesn’t it? Now it is clear that if Democrats had the power, they would make killing any baby at any time nothing but a personal decision and actions are being taken to prevent that from ever happening. You may lose your sacred “right” to take life on a whim altogether. Wouldn’t that be a shame.
They have full control. They can block conception or they can get an abortion when the question of killing a living being is less definite. But, the decision to kill someone because you don’t want them around is not just a “personal decision” and it has nothing to do with “reproductive rights”.
Nor can the state intrude into the life of a human being trying to live.
@Deplorable Me:
Greggie Goebbels said:
This is a false flag argument of the left. Take a look at the phrases they use:
Right to choose: That is nothing more than wordsmithing. It treats pregnancy as a choice. Pregnancy is not a choice; it is the result of a choice (to have unprotected sex) already made.
Reproductive health: Does the health of a woman’s reproductive organs cease after an abortion? No. She still needs to be checked for things like ovarian cancer, etc. PP claims to do that, but in the number of PP clinics I called (for a survey) none of them offered anything but abortions. No mammograms, no pap smears, no pregnancy counseling, nada. Just abortion. And no PP clinics offer “follow up” physical examinations, or counseling, after an abortion.
Cases of rape/incest: Even the Guttmacher Institute, the statistical arm of PP, states that the termination of a pregnancy due to rape or incest is less than one percent of all abortions performed. To hear the left tell it, every rape or case of incest results in pregnancy. That is so far from the truth it ceases to be laughable.
The truth of the matter is that in the ’70’s, women were sold a bill of goods that they could have sex with the same lack of accountability as men. Not so since men cannot get pregnant. Men supported that falsehood because abortion laws allowed them to skate from having to pay child support on a child that was the result, in many cases, of a one night stand.
Where are the rights of men in all of this? They don’t exist. A woman cannot get pregnant without a man’s reproductive system. But a woman can have their baby murdered without his permission although the child is just as much his as it is hers.
A fetus is not a baby: yes, yes it is. Just as a baby is not a toddler, a toddler is not an adult. It is human from the moment of conception. Its DNA is exclusive to that child and no other human will ever have the same DNA.
Reasons for abortion: again, look at the Guttmacher results. Almost all abortions are done for convenience; can’t afford a baby, interferes with education/career, not ready for parenthood, etc.
Once again, I would ask those like Greggie Goebbels; Do you want to live in a society where all life has value or no life has value?
@retire05: Did I pass my quiz?
See #08
Greg never answered with his amendment quiz so he gets an incomplete or F
I like the Idea of more right leaning Judges, sometimes they dont rule as we hope but this is a great start.
@retire05:
Well, in most cases.
A society where those with the proper ideology have value. And, guess who gets to decide?
@kitt:
Of course.
Remember, the left sold us on abortion as “legal, safe and rare”. 60 million infant deaths later, it is only legal. Goznell was only one abortionist who killed late term babies, putting their mother’s in harm’s way. Late term abortions carries with it more risk than childbirth. And there is never, READ THIS GREGGIE, NEVER, any reason for a late term abortion as testified by OBGYNs to Congress who do abortions.
PP has done a good job of running away from its beginnings, i.e. Margaret Sanger who wanted to eliminate minorities, and poor people, from our society. It is no accident that PP facilities are built in minority neighborhoods, no matter what Greggie Goebbels claims. When it comes to PP, it’s all about the $$$. That is why post abortion counseling is not offered by them.
History will not judge us kindly. The science is catching up with the law. When Roe was adjudicated, it was not known when a heart beat begins, when brainwaves are present, that an unborn child could feel pain. And we are only beginning to see the scientific evidence that life begins at conception.
Even liberal Constitutional lawyers agree Roe is bad law. And unconstitutional. Blackmun’s premise was that making abortion illegal denied a woman her 14th Amendment rights of “life, liberty and property.” A legalistic stretch by any imagination. Also, if those who say it is based on the right to privacy, there is no guarantee of privacy in the Constitution that applies to reproductive rights and as we all know, HIPA has to be passed (done legislatively) to protect our medical records privacy rights.
Harvard Law School professor John Hart Ely, who supports legalized abortion, wrote that “Roe is bad because it is bad constitutional law, or rather because it is not constitutional law and gives almost no sense of an obligation to try to be.”
Murder is murder no matter how you want to change the dynamics or the explanation.
@retire05: The funny thing is if the left switched sides and said “new evidence” abortion is bad, Greg would like the MK ultra subject he is would be arguing the murder point.
@kitt: Kitt If your 16 year old daughter or grand daughter was raped and impregnated would you support her being required to birth the child?–YES OR NO pls.
I personally oppose abortion and favor easing of adoptions.
Should a fetus have the same legal rights as a birthed child?
NOTE Biden needs simply to take back PA. and Mich to defeat DT—Very doable–currently has double digit leads in both.
@Richard Wheeler:
Loaded question (typical of all leftists).
In such an event, I would want the girl to report it immediately to the police and have the perp arrested, tried and jailed for his crime. And how would a girl even know she was pregnant immediately proceeding the rape? FACT; she wouldn’t and the medical procedures that should follow immediately after a rape would prevent such a pregnancy. Fertilization is not immediate and can take up to five days, with only the strongest sperm cell living. Then comes the process of the egg implanting itself into the uterine wall.
Since rape/incest represents less than one percent of all abortions performed, you lefties really should stop using that as an excuse. If abortion was only limited to rape/incest, we would reduce the number of abortions by more than 99%.
Should performing abortions on dogs, cats, etc. when the dog is mid term be allowed? Who makes the choice, the dog or the owner?
@Richard Wheeler: There was the day after pill available. I would assume the emergency room physician would advise it.
I had very little to worry about my daughter was 5′ 10 and athletic we were running an ornamental concrete business she had no problem loading the items into the customer cars. Mom also gave her the same tips I got from my brother when he came home from the service. the little no mercy moves.
Id worry more more she would know who it was and her big brother going hunting with his buds.
@kitt:
The left has done nothing but push back against the “pro-life” movement’s incessant efforts to eliminate every woman’s right to exercise sovereign control over her own body. The bottom line? They believe the State should be empowered to force women to behave as they think they should. That’s a fundamentally un-American belief.
@Richard Wheeler:
I thought you lefties supported human rights. What is a fetus if not human?
@Greg:
A woman, in over 99% of all cases of pregnancy, abdicated “sovereign control” over her body prior to conception allowing a man to use her body for sexual purposes. That is why she became pregnant.
What is that argument, if not dishonest?
@Greg:
Simple question, Greggie Goebbels. If a fetus is not human, what is it? Do I have to dumb down the question even more for you to be able to understand it?
@Greg:
So, who forced the left to begin making death of the baby legal up to the moment of birth or beyond? What actions was it that created the thought that that little dose of rationality was required?
Fact is, the way leftist leaders try to appeal to their followers is by showing how willing they are to penetrate the lunatic fringe in order to further the leftist agenda. There was NO reason to push such boundaries of barbarity. All they wanted to prove was that nothing can restrict what a liberal wants to do, up to and including the murder of babies. In Nazi Germany, the State not only had to power to abort babies for whatever reason they mandated, but they could abort adult human beings as well. If the people who think this birthday abortion agenda is a good idea had the power, does anyone think they would not find a way to simply eliminate political enemies? Barbarism has a habit of getting out of hand rather quickly when it is not opposed.
@retire05:
Human rights for those leftists deem worthy of them. Are they useful to the left? Do they serve the left? Can they be exploited by the left? NO? NO RIGHTS FOR YOU!
@kitt: Day after pill ?? Wouldn’t happen to your girls—wishful thinking.
Alabama the 6th poorest state has gone too far
Do you agree with o5 that a fetus has all the legal rights of a
birthed child?
We should give more help and support to children born to the very poor–wouldn’t you agree?
ALL What is a legitimate argument for not allowing exception for rape and incest—even if only !%—- Anything like—if I give up my machine gun rights what comes next??
It doesn’t make sense.
You folks like Con Don’s new moniker?
@Richard Wheeler:
We????
What exactly have you done to “help and support children born to the very poor”, Wheeler?
Have you worked at a pregnancy resource center that provide prenatal care, after birth care, formula, diapers, baby clothes, strollers and all things a new mother would need and then helping her to learn how to properly take care of her baby? Have you even donated to a pregnancy resource center?
Don’t preach to those of us who have if you don’t walk the walk.
@Greg:
They have fought every common sense limitations to protect womens lives from butchers like Gosnell.
admitting privileges ect.
Im not going to change your mind, you wont change mine.
This wouldnt be an issue if congress had actually passed a law and the SCOTUS would have left it to each state to decide.
We wouldnt have this issue if the pro-abortionists hadnt horrified the population with infanticide in 19 states, backed up by the democrats in congress voting down the born alive bill multiple times.
The truth of selling baby organs even though highly illegal, the more developed the higher the price adds a question of are they intentionally delaying.
All women that are as horrified as you think can just move to an infanticide state.
@Richard Wheeler: Yes Richard doctors know how to prevent pregnancies after a rape. I didnt say it wouldnt happen I said I gave my daughter tools, and as she was not a tiny lil thing, I could, at that time, worry less.
I am sorry you did not like the whole solution of the day after pill as an effective way to be assured my daughter would not carry a rapists child.
I come from a big family we love babies planned, unplanned all are welcomed loved the same.
Its fun to see our men turn into babbling fools over them.
@retire05: Thank you for setting the example for all keep up the good works and please continue to remind us of all you do.
Kitt “CON DON”—-PRETTY CATCHY–NO?
@Rich Wheeler: “CON DON”—-PRETTY CATCHY–NO? no you can do much better than that. Try some more.
How about “Don no more Juan”
@kitt: I didn’t coin it –NYC mayor did—New Yorkers pretty good at recognizing Trump for what he is, and has been for decades.
@Rich Wheeler: He is so loved, he has done such wonderful things for the city.
Imagine every tax for the nation he could dream up, what could he give his wife to run if she could lose 900K on a city level what she could accomplish on a national level!
https://nypost.com/2019/02/28/de-blasio-and-co-mayor-wife-have-wasted-1-8b-of-taxpayer-money/
@Rich Wheeler:
Would not have even mentioned it if you hadn’t tried to play Mr. Conscience.
Pretty funny that Warren Wilhelm, Jr. gives a nick-name to Donald Trump when Warren Wilhem, Jr. himself goes by an alias (well, he actually changed his name legally in 2002, so there’s that).
See you’re still not into answering questions, just asking them. SSDD.
@retire05:
You’ve done that? Bull. Shit.
@Michael:
You know nothing about me but think you are so superior you can call b/s on what I have done?
Is arrogance the only trait you lefties have? There is a better way to use your time. Here, go help one of these pregnancy centers in your state that helps a life by saving a life.
http://lifecall.org/cpc/california.html
@retire05:
Not true. I know from my interactions with you that you’re an intellectual coward and a serial liar who is entirely lacking in personal honor.
@Michael:
Projecting again, Michael?
@retire05:
And there it is: “I know you are, but what am I?” Never change, buddy!
@Michael:
Make no mistake, I’m not your buddy. I ceased trying to be amiable with liberals a long time ago since y’all are an irrational lost cause.
@retire05: Like AJ jumps in adds nothing to the conversation a lazy lazy little gelding.
Trumps record setting in appointing Judges is making them weak in the knees.
There are 179 active appellate judges total.
@retire05:
I’m glad I could help.
@kitt:
Don’t worry about Michael. Like all liberals, he’s an intellectual lightweight who thinks he’s too cute by half.
Deal with him appropriately.
@retire05:
Agreed.
@kitt: 7 of 10 New Yorkers voted for De Blasio–
Six out of ten New Yorkers voted against Trump
30 point swing—-New Yorkers can smell a con man like Trump from Battery Park to the Brooklyn Bridge.
@Richard Wheeler: How has the city improved? Lower crime? Lower taxes?, better Schools higher graduation rate? Or flight from taxation to other parts of the country?
@Richard Wheeler:
And they voted for Alexandria. That is one sick area. DeBlasio is hated and has no chance of even making the debates, much less the candidacy. Not that I’m not cheering for him to be the candidate, mind you.
Trump, meanwhile, is doing a GREAT job.
@Deplorable Me: Love his comment about money being in the wrong hands, very commie of him, I dont think he can escape NY, he is no Snake,but Manhatten might look like this when he is done….
@kitt: I was just seeing that Democrats are wondering who would replace Big Bird as Mayor. They suggested… wait for it… Alexandria!!! No, really!
These people can’t think seriously.
@Deplorable Me: Its a MABA movement
Make Alexandria Bartend Again.
“This Is The Best Bad Idea We Have, Sir.”