Trump says he just might appoint Pro-Abortion Extremist to Supreme Court

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Andddd... Suddenly republicans start to remember the long-term damage that a Dem Trump could do in office... He'll have 1, 2, or more SCOTUS appointments.  He gave us this gem today:


Trump Praises His Sister, a Pro-Abortion Extremist Judge


National Review

Trump Praises His Sister, a Pro-Abortion Extremist Judge by Ramesh Ponnuru August 27, 2015 Donald Trump told Mark Halperin yesterday that his sister, a federal judge, would be a “phenomenal” Supreme Court justice. He also said that “we will have to rule that out now, at least.” If he ever becomes president, let’s hope he rules it out permanently. Maryanne Trump Barry came up in my book The Party of Death for writing one of those heated judicial decisions in favor of giving constitutional protection to partial-birth abortion.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner

[chadstallion]

Finally, my first reason to consider Trump as a serious candidate.

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Finally, my first reason to consider Trump as a serious candidate.

this republican base is very vocal about the SCOTUS possibilities of the 2016-2020 presidential term.  Someone could SERIOUSLY veer that court to the left for two decades with 2 to 3 choices. 

They'd rather talk about laws Hilary didn't actually break, or how "impactful" Fiorina is at 11th place in polls... but they can't wrap their mind around their loving support of a dem who just said he'd have no qualms with putting a very far leftist on the supreme court. 

[doison]

What if all the political stances you associate with republicans weren't the most important political topics to the majority of people who vote republican?


Imagine a world where not every person who votes "R" is part of the religious right...

[chadstallion]

What if all the political stances you associate with republicans weren't the most important political topics to the majority of people who vote republican?


Imagine a world where not every person who votes "R" is part of the religious right...

I would want to meet them, buy them a drink and sit and visit / learn from them.

[The Ugly]

Eh.

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Team Jeb adds Trump’s sister to the mix

The Washington Post’s Dave Weigel reports today, for example, on Team Jeb tackling a story about, of all things, Donald Trump’s sister.

It started with a Bloomberg Politics interview in which Mark Halperin asked about the Supreme Court and brought up the fact that Trump’s sister is an appeals-court judge. The candidate sang his sister’s praises, but said he’d rule her out for a high court nomination. Weigel picks it up from there:
Trump’s quote ran on Aug. 26. One day later, National Review columnist Ramesh Ponnuru pointed out that Maryanne Trump Barry was reliably pro-choice, and once rejected a lawsuit to stop partial birth abortions for “semantic machinations” about when life began. Just 20 minutes after that article went up, Bush’s spokesman and campaign manager tweeted it out, sexing it up a bit to say that Trump actually wanted to put his sister on the bench.

Jeb’s campaign manager actually pushed the story twice, “paging all pro-lifers.”
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There’s a legitimate question about whether Team Jeb, and in fact all campaigns, would be better off leaving candidates’ family members out of the debate altogether. Sure, Trump said nice things about his sister, and apparently conservatives have reason to disagree with her, but unless there’s a substantive reason to connect the judge’s views with the candidate’s, it’s a questionable line of attack.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/team-jeb-adds-trumps-sister-the-mix