The_Elucidator
03-05-2007, 06:05 PM
BY JAMES TARANTO
Monday, March 5, 2007 2:45 p.m. EST
Nixon Goes to China (http://www.theweeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=13370&R=112A038D9A)
The Weekly Standard's Noemie Emery looks at a subject we've written a lot about over the past few weeks: social conservatives who are considering backing Rudy Giuliani for president despite his disagreeing with them on abortion. Emery argues that Republicans are "making a deal":
The deal in the works has been carefully crafted to make sure that no one loses too much. Conservatives would be getting a pro-choice nominee, but one who would not push a pro-choice agenda, and one who would give them (as far as presidents can be sure in these matters) the kind of judges they long for. Giuliani would not be required to renounce his beliefs, merely to appoint the right kind of judges and to remain more or less neutral in a policy area in which, to be honest, he has never shown that much interest.
In fact, as Emery points out elsewhere, "aside from the appointing of judges, and some tinkering with executive orders," there is little the president can do about abortion. As long as the Supreme Court insists that abortion is a constitutional right, there is little Congress or the state legislatures can do either. If President Giuliani makes good on his promise to nominate judges, and especially high court justices, who are inclined to overturn Roe v. Wade (http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113), his pro-life supporters will have received almost everything substantive that they could have asked for.
How likely is Roe to be overturned? There's no way to know, but we can speculate. Currently seven of the nine justices have taken a position on the subject: five have upheld the putative constitutional right to abortion, while two have said they would overturn it.
But the pro-Roe majority is tenuous for actuarial reasons. Among the five pro-Roe justices are the two eldest members of the Supreme Court, John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. These are also the most likely justices to depart the court by the end of the next presidential term, in January 2013.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/
This is my issue...I already know what kind of Judge that Hitlery or Osama Obama would appoint!
Monday, March 5, 2007 2:45 p.m. EST
Nixon Goes to China (http://www.theweeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=13370&R=112A038D9A)
The Weekly Standard's Noemie Emery looks at a subject we've written a lot about over the past few weeks: social conservatives who are considering backing Rudy Giuliani for president despite his disagreeing with them on abortion. Emery argues that Republicans are "making a deal":
The deal in the works has been carefully crafted to make sure that no one loses too much. Conservatives would be getting a pro-choice nominee, but one who would not push a pro-choice agenda, and one who would give them (as far as presidents can be sure in these matters) the kind of judges they long for. Giuliani would not be required to renounce his beliefs, merely to appoint the right kind of judges and to remain more or less neutral in a policy area in which, to be honest, he has never shown that much interest.
In fact, as Emery points out elsewhere, "aside from the appointing of judges, and some tinkering with executive orders," there is little the president can do about abortion. As long as the Supreme Court insists that abortion is a constitutional right, there is little Congress or the state legislatures can do either. If President Giuliani makes good on his promise to nominate judges, and especially high court justices, who are inclined to overturn Roe v. Wade (http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113), his pro-life supporters will have received almost everything substantive that they could have asked for.
How likely is Roe to be overturned? There's no way to know, but we can speculate. Currently seven of the nine justices have taken a position on the subject: five have upheld the putative constitutional right to abortion, while two have said they would overturn it.
But the pro-Roe majority is tenuous for actuarial reasons. Among the five pro-Roe justices are the two eldest members of the Supreme Court, John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. These are also the most likely justices to depart the court by the end of the next presidential term, in January 2013.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/
This is my issue...I already know what kind of Judge that Hitlery or Osama Obama would appoint!