'Let me translate that into English': CNN's Toobin cracks Amy Coney Barrett's legal code words

[turbinetree]

[lonely bird]

1. Ooh, she has a family...

So what? Does that make her special in some way? No, it does not. Millions of people have families. A better question is how will her positions, and, yes, she will legislate from the bench utilizing “policy positions” (just a bullshit term used to deflect) impact those millions of families.

As to her religion, again she will utilize it to legislate from the bench by using religious policy positions.

I don’t like liars. She lies through obfuscation, misdirection and deflection. To borrow from the confession in the liturgy “...by what I have done...”. She knows it, she doesn’t care.

Btw, originalism, iirc, was created by Bork. It is a complete load of crap.

[lonely bird]

2. Oh, and something else

If Roe v Wade is overturned as a policy matter, what then?

Let us say it is overturned and 31 states pass laws criminalizing it. If a woman from a criminalized state goes to a state where it is legal and has an abortion, what happens when she returns home? Or is that a “policy matter”?

[DENVERPOPS]

3. Wow

What's old will be new again........LOL

In my younger years, when abortion was illegal, and the pill was illegal, I saw several wealthy girls in my high school suddenly become exchange students and fly off for a semester abroad in the Scandinavian Countries........

If Roe vs Wade is overturned, I suspect the same thing would happen all over again.

There were a lot of girls, who didn't have the money, who had a notorious back alley abortion job with a so called coat hanger and ended up critically damaged, died, or were never able to have children thanks to the macabre operation by some quack.......

The majority of the un-married, pregnant girls had to carry their child to full term, then become a single parent, have a shotgun wedding, or give the child up for adoption.

[SergeStorms]

4. Just what the hell makes her...

"well qualified" for the Supreme Court of the United States of America?

Barrett has served less than three years on the 7th Circuit after working as a law professor at Notre Dame Law School for nearly two decades. Less than three years on a Circuit Court is not a solid basis for giving this woman a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land! At 48 years old she could sit there for 40 years!

"Well qualified" my ass!