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    Quote Originally Posted by Jane v2.0 View Post
    I think The Heritage Foundation/Trump is going to nominate an anti-choice zealot to overturn Roe V Wade. Is that what you want?
    I think overturning Roe v. Wade (along with Planned Parenthood v. Casey and Whole Women's Health v. Herllerstedt) would go against the Court's basic policy of stare decisis.

    I think a bold-faced partisan "overturning" of Roe v. Wade would also have other fallout.

    Minor compared to the rest of the firestorms consuming our nation, but still.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bae View Post
    I think overturning Roe v. Wade (along with Planned Parenthood v. Casey and Whole Women's Health v. Herllerstedt) would go against the Court's basic policy of stare decisis.

    I think a bold-faced partisan "overturning" of Roe v. Wade would also have other fallout.

    Minor compared to the rest of the firestorms consuming our nation, but still.
    I'm not sure the Right would honor stare decisis, and their selling point to evangelicals is "Vote for us--we'll overturn Roe."

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    Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
    I’m not sure what you mean here.


    Supreme court appointment is probably my strongest reason for voting for Trump, not that I will necessarily but it’s the leading Theoretical reason for me.


    If he pushes thru his candidate In this term then maybe some of his supporters will wipe their hands of him and say OK we are done. Like the evangelicals. When that be interesting?
    Why?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jane v2.0 View Post
    I'm not sure the Right would honor stare decisis, and their selling point to evangelicals is "Vote for us--we'll overturn Roe."
    Then we really wouldn't have the sort of legal system that we signed up for.

    We'd be more of a shithole country.

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    Quote Originally Posted by frugal-one View Post
    Why?
    In my fantasy, we have a better chance of getting a constitutionalist justice with Trump than we do with Biden.

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    Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
    In my fantasy, we have a better chance of getting a constitutionalist justice with Trump than we do with Biden.
    I don’t know what you mean?

    https://www.amazon.com/Constitutiona.../dp/0198298307

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    Quote Originally Posted by frugal-one View Post
    And I dont know what point you are trying to make with this reference.

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    Thinking more long game I wonder if the republicans of the politician class have really thought this out. If they ram this appointment up the country's ass and the new super majority "conservative" justices overturn Row on some "jiggery pokery" justification that would make Scalia proud, what are their voters going to do in the next election? Answer, they are going to stay home because the job is done. Winners aren't inspired to get out and vote. Only losers are inspired to get out and vote. Because they want to change things. Winners are content and lazy. If Row ever gets overturned republicans will be the proverbial dog that caught the car's bumper. "what next?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
    And I dont know what point you are trying to make with this reference.
    I am trying to figure out what you mean?

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    Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
    And I dont know what point you are trying to make with this reference.
    I got the impression that she was trying to point out that conservatives don’t have a stranglehold on the ‘correct’ interpretation of the constitution. Conservatives use the word constitutionalist as a means of trying to paint progressives as unamerican.

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