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2020-01-05 Home Front: Culture Wars

More than 200 members of Congress ask Supreme Court to reconsider Roe v. Wade in latest abortion case

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-05 01:08|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 It wasn't their authority. It was a state's authority. SCOTUS assumed powers and purview that was never intended for the federal judiciary to have without an Article V amendment. It violated the separation of powers between the federal and state governments.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

But, where's the aggrandizement of power in that?

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-05 02:44|| 2020-01-05 02:44|| Front Page Top

#2 If abortion is so popular and wonderful, why is there such a phobia about allowing more than 9 people to vote on it?

Posted by Tom 2020-01-05 15:26|| 2020-01-05 15:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Never should have gone to SCOTUS. If it had been left up to the states, we'd never have wasted so much time and breath arguing about it as a nation.

Different strokes for diff'rent states... and those who favor abortion rights would have fought for them in the only appropriate venue: elections at the state level.

Posted by Lex 2020-01-05 15:36|| 2020-01-05 15:36|| Front Page Top

#4 It went to SCOTUS as a wink and nod to the supporters. Some States would've rejected it. The babykillers wanted a nationwide rule

Posted by Frank G 2020-01-05 17:14|| 2020-01-05 17:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Now as a result of Roe, and that other disastrously stupid SCOTUS decision from the same era, Bakke, we have these BS concepts that have only created confusion and made Americans mistrust their rulers and hate each other. "Right to privacy," "diversity."

What mischief was made by that Court. Better to scrap both and start over, with elections. If the good people of State X or Y want abortion on demand and race-based college admissions, let them have it. If not, then strike them down.

But don't leave it up to unelected judges torturing logic and the English language to come up with bullshit concepts that have no foundation in our laws or legal traditions.

Posted by Lex 2020-01-05 18:30|| 2020-01-05 18:30|| Front Page Top

#6 If I were given the opportunity to reverse 5 Supreme Court decisions, this would not be on that list. I agree it was wrongly decided and bad policy, but just not the hill to die on this year.

Posted by Iblis 2020-01-05 19:37|| 2020-01-05 19:37|| Front Page Top

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