Trump Met with Anti-Abortion Judge for Supreme Court Seat, Report Says
Source: LawNewz
by Alberto Luperon | 9:49 am, January 16th, 2017
President-elect Donald Trump met with federal Judge William Pryor on Saturday about a possible seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, Above The Law reports. Then-candidate Trump publicly floated his name almost as soon as Justice Antonin Scalia, 79, passed away in February. The PEOTUSs shortlist grew to be as long as 21 names, and is now down to 20.
If Pryor ends up being the final choice, itd be another controversial right-wing pick for the next administration. He has served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 2004, and as revealed in confirmation hearing testimony, he called Roe v. Wade, which established a right to abortion under the 14th Amendment, the worst abomination in constitutional law in history. Its also worth mentioning that he became Attorney General of Alabama in 1997 right after predecessor Jeff Sessions, a controversial Trump pick for U.S. Attorney General, left for the U.S. Senate.
We reached out to a Trump spokeswoman for more details on the meeting.
Read more: http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/trump-met-with-anti-abortion-judge-for-supreme-court-seat-report-says/
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)Donald Trump of course loves abortion when it is for someone he got pregnant, if he is even capable of that.
But to get revenge on those who have taken him on over the years, it is time for his friends to start the back alley killings of women not fortunate enough to have enough money to get to a facility.
BTW, they will outlaw abortion period, wont be up to the states either.
Also, they re going to legally redefine "rape" soon, count on it.
dalton99a
(81,486 posts)Vinca
(50,271 posts)MFM008
(19,808 posts)And if he back tracks he needs to be primaried.
dalton99a
(81,486 posts)onenote
(42,702 posts)Wonder whether she'd stick to her guns.
sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)What an embarrassment. I'm surprised he didn't pick Roy Moore to be honest.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)Trump isn't going to inflict anyone on us who won't be there for a very long time. Some of the people on that shortlist are in their 40s.
sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)2 nutcases
FBaggins
(26,737 posts)Expect a string of such stories over the next couple weeks. I'm fairly certain that all of them can be fairly called anti-abortion.
My money is on Gorsuch. An under-50 clone of Scalia.
herding cats
(19,564 posts)This is one area where he will get full support from the GOP, too.
Pryor is 54 years old, for those curious how long this will impact us.
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)....."During the confirmation hearing, Pryor was criticized in particular for filing an amicus brief on behalf of the State of Alabama in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Lawrence v. Texas that urged the Court to uphold Texas penal code § 21.06, which classifies homosexual sex as a misdemeanor.[26] Pryor's brief argued that the recognition of a constitutional right to sodomy would "logically extend" to activities like "prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, incest and pedophilia."[27][28][29]"