liberal supreme court justice Ginsberg, has died

[cutenickname]

11 minutes ago, little2add said:

 

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Saturday signaled he would soon nominate a potential replacement to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday evening at 87.

Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a Catholic mother of seven.

Barrett is married to Jesse M. Barrett, a partner at SouthBank Legal in South Bend, Indiana, and former Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana.  They live in South Bend and have seven children: five biological children and two children adopted from Haiti. Their youngest biological child has special needs.

If Trump is going to appoint someone I hope and pray that it is a Catholic mother of 7 with two black children. I feel unsafe in his America. I'd trust such a woman to protect me.

[little2add]

1 hour ago, cutenickname said:

two black children.

 She has two children adopted from Haiti, so...

[Peace]

On 9/19/2020 at 12:52 PM, Lilllabettt said:

All that effort, her whole life, and her most lasting legacy may be turning the court right. She was thinking about this as she lay dying. All her efforts undone by one mistake of ego: refusing to retire, when asked, during the Obama administration.  Think on that! How tragic! Ego and pride wait patiently for their chance to destroy our lifes work. 

Well I don't think her life's work is destroyed. Some of stuff that she did early on in her career, with respect to women's rights, seems pretty legit to me.

But yeah you could be right in that her ego got in the way. It seems to me that she really liked being on the court, the work of being a judge. I can see how it could be hard for a person to step away from doing what they love, essentially for political reasons.

23 hours ago, cutenickname said:

If Trump is going to appoint someone I hope and pray that it is a Catholic mother of 7 with two black children. I feel unsafe in his America. I'd trust such a woman to protect me.

The other one, Barbara Lagoa, seems to the best choice to me. She seems like a legit conservative, she is Catholic, and being a Hispanic woman makes it a whole lot harder to dox her from the identity politics perspective.

[little2add]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a question of eugenics

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was no saint, in fact, she supported the Roe vs. Wade 1973 decision because of eugenics. 

Here's what Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in Sunday's New York Times Magazine: "Frankly I had thought that at the time [Roe vs. Wade] was decided," Ginsburg told her interviewer, Emily Bazelon, "there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of."

The comment, which bizarrely elicited no follow-up from Bazelon or any further coverage from The New York Times -- or any other major news outlet -- was in the context of Medicaid funding for abortion.

Ginsburg was surprised when the Supreme Court in 1980 barred taxpayer support for abortions for poor women. After all, if poverty partly described the population you had "too many of," you would want to subsidize it in order to expedite the reduction of unwanted populations.

 

Edited September 23, 2020 by little2add

[Ash Wednesday]

On 9/21/2020 at 2:00 AM, Peace said:

The other one, Barbara Lagoa, seems to the best choice to me. She seems like a legit conservative, she is Catholic, and being a Hispanic woman makes it a whole lot harder to dox her from the identity politics perspective.

As much as I would love Barrett, Lagoa being from Florida might also be of political interest, so her nomination wouldn't surprise me either.  She would potentially be in for less of a dogfight to be installed than Barrett would. But maybe I'm forgetting that it's 2020....God help whatever woman gets put forward.

[Peace]

7 hours ago, Ash Wednesday said:

As much as I would love Barrett, Lagoa being from Florida might also be of political interest, so her nomination wouldn't surprise me either.  She would potentially be in for less of a dogfight to be installed than Barrett would. But maybe I'm forgetting that it's 2020....God help whatever woman gets put forward.

I'm sure the Dems will dredge up (or fabricate) some type of dirt, but I think it will be much tougher for them to drag Lagoa through the mud. Look at the bright side, probably won't be any last minute rape allegations.

 

Edited September 24, 2020 by Peace

[little2add]

religious bigotry has become an evil undercurrent in Today’s politics.

Consider this:

By Saturday, the president will announce a female, Catholic nominee for the Supreme Court. The favorite is Amy Coney Barrett, who became a conservative star because Democrats set out to criticize the role of her faith in her decisions.  

Let us pray that Americans will meet the Indiana judge, view her warmly, after the Democrats continue to unleash the most anti-Catholic campaign since the 1920s.

Amy Coney Barrett hasn’t even been nominated (yet).”

 

  United States Constitution, Article VI Clause 3 Provides that one’s religion is a matter between one’s God and one’s self, and should not play a role in determining suitability for public office.

The notion that Catholics, Protestants, Jews, or adherents of any other religion need not apply is utterly foreign to our Constitutional traditions.  

Last I heard the first amendment protects freedom of religion except, of course when you practice the Catholic faith...

Edited September 25, 2020 by little2add