| Obama appointed a Catholic, and nobody complained. Objections to ACB are not anti-Catholic, but based on how she is expected to vote on Roe. |
Only 11% of US Catholics subscribe to the church’s view on abortion (illegal under all circumstances). If republicans want to spend the next month calling the other 89% of us apostates, have it at it. |
| I would like to see an atheist SCOTUS. Americans are oppressed by religious freaks of all denominations. We need pure intellectual thought untainted by dogma. |
Agreed. Religion is a political football. We need a person who doesn't have a religion that the press or dcum will make an issue out of How about a Muslim or a hindu |
Ugh, fck your both sides bullcrap. Biden, both Clinton’s, Obama, Carter - how have you been oppressed by their religious beliefs? How were you oppressed by RBG’s Judaism? |
+1 I’ll go you one better, PP. Trump didn’t actually win the Catholic vote. https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/04/06/new-data-suggest-clinton-not-trump-won-catholic-vote |
Arguments in the ACA case start Nov. 10 -- is it likely a new SCOTUS justice would be confirmed by then? And if not, she wouldn't have a vote in that case, right? |
Correct. But the ACA might be gone anyway because if there’s a 4-4 tie the lower court’s ruling to kill it stands. |
Right, but the personal attacks on her reflect anti-religious bigotry. Obama's nominees did not face these kinds of attacks and were approved by huge numbers in both parties. |
| I am pro choice but would love to see the end of roe. Sick of hypocrites on the right pretending it is why they vote for republicans. Clear the issue from the table. Let’s watch the entire country shift further and further left. We’ve already killed 200k innocent Americans. What’s another few thousand women every year due to botched back alley abortions? |
Right now it looks like republicans will try to confirm before the election on Nov. 3. Certainly no guarantee they will get it done by then, but it’s enough of a possibility to make it a clear election issue. |
Were they associated with splinter sects championing zealotry? Also, Mitch doesn’t GAF about abortion. Amy is a shill for corporatists. It’s all about money money money. |
I’ve thought about this before, but the fight would just shift to the states. Abortion would be illegal in a handful of very conservative states. |
Nah, it's happening during the lame duck. They're just going to try and run on th Court and Democratic "obstruction". But it's a double edged sword. If everyone knows that they ar doing it during the lame duck then it doesn't matter who wins the election. People can safely vote against Trump's incompetence and not have to worry about the seat. |
no they, don't. it's not anti-religious bigotry to not want to live in a theocracy where her religious views will be imposed on me. i don't want to live under Sharia law either. a religious extremist of any kind is not a good choice for SCOTUS. |