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Quote (ThatAlex @ Jun 27 2018 03:32pm)
Alito, Gorsuch, Thomas, and whoever Trump picks next would likely vote to overturn Roe v Wade, but John Roberts wouldn't.

Roberts finna become the next Kennedy and uphold the integrity of the SCOTUS on the landmark cases. Look at what he just did in Carpenter v. United States, for instance.


Liberal indoctrination =/= integrity
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Jun 27 2018 01:50pm
Hopefully up next is Darth Vader Gingsburg
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Jun 27 2018 01:51pm
Quote (EndlessSky @ Jun 27 2018 02:32pm)
Kennedy was the swing vote

Its a possibility but i dont think its certain yet


If Roe gets overturned I'm voting for Trump in 2020.
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Jun 27 2018 01:54pm
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If Roe gets overturned I'm voting for Trump in 2020.


Would just create a crisis of states refusing to acknowledge a Supreme court ruling and further divide and damage the country.
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Jun 27 2018 01:58pm
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Would just create a crisis of states refusing to acknowledge a Supreme court ruling and further divide and damage the country.


Huh?

It would just kick the abortion law question back to the states. You know, democratic choice and all that.

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Jun 27 2018 02:00pm
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If Roe gets overturned I'm voting for Trump in 2020.


I don't think SCOTUS can just overturn any previous opinions. A new case would need to come before them and would have to have new evidencices or circumstances beyond what was already presented and ruled on for them to reconsider a new opinion.

If someone tried to say just reconsider the previous opinion without anything new, it should not be heard.
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Jun 27 2018 02:03pm


Senate to debate Trump high court nominee in fall: McConnell

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-kennedy-senate/senate-to-debate-trump-high-court-nominee-in-fall-mcconnell-idUSKBN1JN2ST

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday said President Donald Trump’s eventual nomination to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy will be debated by the full Senate this fall.



I think it is weird that they would wait on this till fall. Although since the Supreme Court doesn't reconvene until fall, it probably doesn't matter.
In fall, if Congress stalls a lot... it would leave the SC is a pretty much deadlocked vote on any issue.
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Maxine Waters is going to start advocating for peaceful left wing death squad storm troopers next
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I don't think SCOTUS can just overturn any previous opinions. A new case would need to come before them and would have to have new evidencices or circumstances beyond what was already presented and ruled on for them to reconsider a new opinion.

If someone tried to say just reconsider the previous opinion without anything new, it should not be heard.




https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-kennedy/justice-kennedy-u-s-supreme-courts-pivotal-vote-to-retire-idUSKBN1JN2OF

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Conservative activists have long dreamed of building a firmly conservative majority on the court that would push to overturn the landmark 1973 ruling in the case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide.


How a decision is 'overturned", I don't know off hand.


/e It should be interesting to see what a more-right SCOTUS will do though.

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Senate to debate Trump high court nominee in fall: McConnell

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-kennedy-senate/senate-to-debate-trump-high-court-nominee-in-fall-mcconnell-idUSKBN1JN2ST




I think it is weird that they would wait on this till fall. Although since the Supreme Court doesn't reconvene until fall, it probably doesn't matter.
In fall, if Congress stalls a lot... it would leave the SC is a pretty much deadlocked vote on any issue.


Congress also is in recess during August, so trying to get SC confirmation stuff done by the end of July would be unfeasible. Fall makes sense.

This post was edited by Surfpunk on Jun 27 2018 02:09pm
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