Discussion: Trump Says He Would Appoint Pro-Life Justice To Supreme Court

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I’m pretty sure everyone is ‘pro-life’ if asked…

does he really mean pro-forcing women to carry to term whether it’s appropriate or not and whether they choose to or not?

because, you know, men know best…

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Republicans: “Letting President Obama, a constitutional law scholar, pick the next Supreme Court justice would be YOOOOOOGELY’ irresponsible…We need to let a bankruptcy expert TV reality star make it! That would be the responsible thing to do.”

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What a shock!

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Wha? 5 SC judges? Does he not realize that he wouldn’t be firing them, he’d be filling vacancies?

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I was thinking “bumped off with extreme prejudice.”

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“…it could be as many as five judges will be appointed over the next four and a half years, so we’re talking about five judges,”

Whaaa?? Okay, I need help deciphering this bit of garble. Is he saying the President’s term is now 4 1/2 years? Or is he including now, because Black Democratic Presidents aren’t allowed to appoint Justices in their final year…but apparently white bigoted Presidents would be allowed?

And FIVE Justices? Does he think the President gets to summarily execute someone on the Court or force them to resign every year? Thomas better keep an eye over his shoulder around Trump.

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“I’m going to put conservative judges on, I think one of the biggest things happening in terms of this election are, you know, it could be as many as five judges will be appointed over the next four and a half years, so we’re talking about five judges.”

Why only five judges? He could appoint seven, or even ten judges! Why, it might even be thirty new SCOTUS judges!

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I realize what I’m about to say is extremely evident but Rump has no way, at all, to see the world other than how he’s shaped his. I have no doubt that he sees choosing SCOTUS replacements in the same vein of The Apprentice. For him, it would just be another version of a reality tv show.

This is how he thinks. He doesn’t understand other ways of working / operating / living and he refuses to try to learn.

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I don’t think his favorite judge, Judy Sheindlin, is anti-choice.

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One thing about T-Rump: He doesn’t pretend that there’s any of this “just calling balls and strikes” crap that we hear from so-called conservative jurists in his judgment. Nope, give him more partisanship in the supposedly impartial courts.

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Ah, Subtlety, thy name is Donald. This is sure to reel in those wavering fundies.

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This man turned bullshit into an art form.

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I don’t think he has a good grasp of what the GOP establishment wants in a SCOTUS appt. The anti-choice shit is only a superficial covering for their base. What they really want in a SCOTUS appt is a justice who is deferential to corporate and authoritarian government interests.

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Trump: That justice will allow exceptions to these rules. You will need to make a deal to get an exception, just like in real life.

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This. Could we at least at TPM try not to repeat with a straight face all of the dishonest terms that the right has worked so hard to insert into the public discourse? ‘Pro-life’ judges regularly vote to uphold capital punishment, to immunize businesses from liability for killing people, for pretty much everything pro-death except if it’s a fetus.

Also on the list: “reform”, whether it be social security, education, liability law…

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“Well, they’ll be pro-life and we’ll see about overturning,” Trump responded.

Also, there will be a 50 state jobs project, involving the construction of several million closets.
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Pro life America:

Posted: May 11, 2016 6:51 AM
Updated: May 11, 2016 6:51 AM
By NBC News

DETROIT -
A Detroit grandmother is in police custody this morning after her 4-year-old granddaughter was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
According to officials, the little girl apparently found the hand gun hidden under the grandmother’s pillow.
A one and 3-year-old were also in the home when the shooting happened Tuesday evening.
Neither was harmed in the incident.
It’s not clear where the girl’s parents were at the time of the shooting.

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I long ago stopped trying to make sense of what’s coming out of the guy’s mouth…

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We shouldn’t play on the other side’s field by referring to the abortion prohibition position as “pro-life.” For one thing, it implies that anyone who supports legal abortion is “anti-life.”

I think the correct term for that position is “abortion prohibitionist.” That’s what they want to do - to make abortion illegal.

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