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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's top Supreme Court picks want to take away your rights
By Donna Provencher -September 21, 2020 12:38 PM
Amy Coney Barrett and Barbara Lagoa, who are both conservative and anti-abortion, present a clear danger to women's rights and health care access.
As the nation grieves the death of women's rights champion Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Donald Trump has vowed in the teeth of public outcry to choose her replacement. Trump is likely to choose a woman to fill Ginsburg's Supreme Court seat, but his two top picks for the vacancy, Judge Amy Coney Barrett and Judge Barbara Lagoa, are under fire for troubling judicial track records.
Barrett, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, is a Catholic conservative and mentee of Antonin Scalia with a record of conservative rulings on cases ranging from abortion rights to gun control. Before her brief stint on the bench, she was a law professor for nearly 20 years at the University of Notre Dame.
Axios reported last year that Trump said of Barrett: "I'm saving her for Ginsburg."
She is, in many ways, the anti-Ginsburg. In a 2013 speech given at Notre Dame on abortion jurisprudence in America, Barrett stated her personal conviction that life begins at conception. While she noted it seemed unlikely that the court would overturn Roe v. Wade's "core protections," she appeared to express support for subsequent rulings restricting abortion access.
Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.
https://americanindependent.com/amy-coney-barrett-barbara-lagoa-ruth-bader-ginsburg-abortion-rights-supreme-court-roe-v-wade/
And what are their views on SS and Medicare, after all they get free health care paid by the taxpayers..............and do they think old people don't deserve a self funded program for retirement after working for companies that make millions off the labor sweat.................
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Trump's top Supreme Court picks want to take away your rights (Original Post)
turbinetree
Sep 2020
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dchill
(38,436 posts)1. Again, the cruelty is the point.
Blue Owl
(50,256 posts)2. I think I'm gonna vomit
Donny needs to pay for this one... BIG TIME. I wanna see tRump DESTROYED in November, then hauled off to jail where he can rot and die.
DBoon
(22,338 posts)4. Moscow Mitch needs to pay too
He needs to be stripped of his power and wealth, publicly humiliated, and forced to end his days working as a Walmart greeter
Initech
(100,034 posts)3. The beatings will continue untl morale improves.