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Say Anything: Top Romney Surrogate Claims Romney Justices Won’t Kill Roe v. Wade

"Beyond his legislative agenda — not just on health care, but on education and Wall Street regulation — Mr. Obama has sketched out a view of government as a force for good, a great leveler and a protector of the middle class. That view stands in stark contrast to the Republican mantra, articulated by Reagan, who headed in the opposite direction in his first inaugural address, saying that “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”"

By Ian Millhiser on Oct 30, 2012 at 10:30 am

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney wants the Supreme Court to overrule Roe v. Wade. He called Roe “one of the darkest moments in Supreme Court history.” .. http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/01/23/409824/on-anniversary-of-roe-romney-condemns-decision-as-one-of-the-darkest-moments-in-supreme-court-history/ . And there is video of him saying that he wants to appoint Supreme Court justices who will reverse Roe .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOrIED-l5aY&feature=related . [ Insert embed ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOrIED-l5aY&feature=related

Yet, at a Republican Jewish Coalition event on Monday, former senator and top Romney surrogate Norm Coleman (R-MN) was asked to address the concerns of “voters who are worried about the influence of religious conservatives on the Republican Party.” Rather than accurately convey Romney’s position on the issue, Coleman pretended that Romney would somehow be powerless against Roe .. http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/norm-coleman-mitt-romney-roe-v-wade.php :

The reality is, uh, choice is an issue for a lot of people, an important issue. President Bush was president eight years, Roe v. Wade wasn’t reversed. He had two Supreme Court picks, Roe v. Wade wasn’t reversed. It’s not going to be reversed.

Watch it:

[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ordl1HBk90I&feature=player_embedded ]

Math is a notoriously difficult subject .. http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/10/26/1095091/romney-econ-speech-preview/ .. for Romney and his campaign, but there is a simple explanation for why President Bush was not able to overrule Roe. Overruling a Supreme Court precedent requires five votes, and the two justices Bush appointed — plus staunchly anti-Roe Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas — add up to less than five. Now, however, three justices .. http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/08/16/697311/four-justices-are-now-over-the-age-of-74/ .. who have at times voted to uphold abortion rights are over the age of 74. If just one leaves the Court, the next president could easily appoint the fifth vote to kill Roe.

More importantly, while Coleman is correct that a shadow of Roe remains law today, it is simply false to suggest that Bush’s appointees did not succeed in significantly rolling back women’s reproductive freedoms. In their very first full term on the Court, Bush’s two appointees joined a 5-4 decision claiming abortion rights should be restricted because “some women come to regret” their own choices .. http://www.americanprogressaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/SCOTUS.pdf .. when they are allowed to make them. If President Bush had not replaced Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, this decision would have come down the other way .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenberg_v._Carhart .

As a recent Center for American Progress Action Fund report explains .. http://www.americanprogressaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/SCOTUS.pdf , Roe is just one of many precedents that is at risk in a Romney Supreme Court. By contrast, should President Obama replace one of the Court’s conservatives, the result could be a new renaissance for democracy, consumers and workers rights .. http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/09/17/858871/five-scotus-cases-that-could-be-overruled-in-a-romney-court-and-five-that-could-be-overruled-under-obama/ :



http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/10/30/1110011/say-anything-top-romney-surrogate-claims-romney-justices-wont-kill-roe-v-wade/

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Screwed .. by Nancy L. Cohen [ excerpt ]

Priority number one on Romney’s Supreme Court agenda is to overturn Roe. He has said the decision was “one of the darkest moments in Supreme Court history.” He has speculated, “If we had justices like Roberts, Alito, Thomas and Scalia, and more justices like that,” Roe would be overturned, and he holds up those staunch conservatives as models for the kind of justice he would appoint. The 2012 Republican Party platform calls for a U.S. constitutional amendment to ban abortion even in cases of incest, rape and threat to the life of the mother. Romney himself has signed on to such extreme positions as outlawing abortion for rape victims and denying them emergency contraception. Ryan, a heartbeat from the Oval Office, believes that doctors who perform abortions to save a woman’s life should be prosecuted. Ryan’s message to a woman, say a rape victim, who has an abortion? “If it’s illegal, it’s illegal.”
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The New Yorker's very thorough endorsement of Obama's re-election: [ last bit ]

The choice is clear. The Romney-Ryan ticket represents a constricted and backward-looking vision of America: the privatization of the public good. In contrast, the sort of public investment championed by Obama—and exemplified by both the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Affordable Care Act—takes to heart the old civil-rights motto “Lifting as we climb.” That effort cannot, by itself, reverse the rise of inequality that has been under way for at least three decades. But we’ve already seen the future that Romney represents, and it doesn’t work.

The reëlection of Barack Obama is a matter of great urgency. Not only are we in broad agreement with his policy directions; we also see in him what is absent in Mitt Romney—a first-rate political temperament and a deep sense of fairness and integrity. A two-term Obama Administration will leave an enduringly positive imprint on political life. It will bolster the ideal of good governance and a social vision that tempers individualism with a concern for community. Every Presidential election involves a contest over the idea of America. Obama’s America—one that progresses, however falteringly, toward social justice, tolerance, and equality—represents the future that this country deserves.
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[ a bit ] Romney states that as president he “will nominate judges in the mold of Chief Justice
Roberts and Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito.” But apparently Roberts no longer makes the cut.
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Justice Scalia must resign .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=77042883

Citizens United Attacks From Justice Stevens Continue


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Justices Bar Mandatory Life Terms for Juveniles [ snippet ]

The 5-to-4 decision divided the court along ideological lines, with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy joining the four members of the liberal wing. Justice Kennedy also provided the decisive vote in two other decisions issued Monday — on Arizona’s immigration law .. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/immigration-and-emigration/arizona-immigration-law-sb-1070/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier .. and on a sequel to the court’s decision in the Citizens United campaign finance case. .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=76992139

arizona1 and Stephanie, and all -- something I've pointed to repeatedly -- all 4 of the Federalists, Roberts, Scalia,
Alito and Thomas, should be summarily impeached, convicted and thrown out on their butts ..
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Americans .. please ..

Richard Mourdock’s Extremist Views Are Shared by Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan


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reelect Obama .. YOU CAN DO IT! .. you can .. LOL .. you will .. ya better anyway .. :)