There was a time when Judge Amy Coney Island opined that recusal was a “good solution” for Catholic judges who cannot be impartial in death penalty cases. Judge Island concluded that “Catholic judges (if they are faithful to the teaching of their church) are morally precluded from enforcing the death penalty,” and that this moral dilemma is sufficient reason for their recusal. That was when she was 26 years old.
Later, as she was about to be confirmed for an appellate court judgeship, she changed her mind. “I cannot think of any cases or category of cases, including capital cases, in which I would feel obliged to recuse on grounds of conscience.” Judge Island clarified that she would not be willing to enter an order of execution if she were a trial judge, but she would be willing to affirm a death sentence at the appellate level.
Situational ethics.
And now, that gets her out from under the hypocrisy of not recusing herself in an abortion case on the basis of her strong moral proclivities based upon her strong Catholic faith that would prevent her from being a truly objective jurist.
So, say goodbye to Roe v. Wade. And while she can send somebody to death by her actions at the appellate level against her church's doctrine with regard to the death penalty, she can also let her strong moral beliefs overturn longstanding judicial precedent thereby relegating many women in the United States to potential criminal liability for controlling their own bodies.
We deserve more in the way of principled consistency of the Justices appointed to sit on the Supreme Court until they croak, than we are about to get from Amy Coney Island.
I seldom post on Wonkette as my comments are generally immature, alcohol-fueled attacks on posts of no consequence and I contribute nothing of substance. Having considered sarafina's response (see below), I say that your post is generically sarcastic enough yet relevant enough to fit seemlessly in with the rest of the comments in this thread and you needn't apologize. Your comment stands on it's own. Maybe Sarafina's tinea corporis isn't responding to the new cream. With respect to (soon to be) Judge Anal Boney Carrot and her wholesome family, I don't believe it. My sister married into a family that is one of those catholic fanatic types and hoo, boy, they are something else. Everything is a lie, the grandparents are psychos, the adults are barely functional alcoholics and the kids are shit-eating nightmares but they pretend that they are "perfect...oh, so perfect". I expect that Boney Carrot's family is much the same. They're catholics, not mormons, for fuck's sake. Someone in that family has had an abortion. Someone else is gay. At least 3 of em are drug addicts. And one of them punched his wife so hard she has mild brain damage. Let's see through the perfect and have a look at the ugly underneath. Because what you see here is an elaborate game of "lets pretend."
I love how Rs talk out of both sides of their mouths. Trump promised a SCOTUS who would overturn Roe, ACA and help him win the election and now they're all "we don't know if she would do those things, maybe she wouldn't' like they can't own that that is what they want.
They should have doubled the size of district and circuit courts before this. Given the population growth not increasing the size of the court is denial of jurisprudence.
So, are you pro-life, or anti-life?
There was a time when Judge Amy Coney Island opined that recusal was a “good solution” for Catholic judges who cannot be impartial in death penalty cases. Judge Island concluded that “Catholic judges (if they are faithful to the teaching of their church) are morally precluded from enforcing the death penalty,” and that this moral dilemma is sufficient reason for their recusal. That was when she was 26 years old.
Later, as she was about to be confirmed for an appellate court judgeship, she changed her mind. “I cannot think of any cases or category of cases, including capital cases, in which I would feel obliged to recuse on grounds of conscience.” Judge Island clarified that she would not be willing to enter an order of execution if she were a trial judge, but she would be willing to affirm a death sentence at the appellate level.
Situational ethics.
And now, that gets her out from under the hypocrisy of not recusing herself in an abortion case on the basis of her strong moral proclivities based upon her strong Catholic faith that would prevent her from being a truly objective jurist.
So, say goodbye to Roe v. Wade. And while she can send somebody to death by her actions at the appellate level against her church's doctrine with regard to the death penalty, she can also let her strong moral beliefs overturn longstanding judicial precedent thereby relegating many women in the United States to potential criminal liability for controlling their own bodies.
We deserve more in the way of principled consistency of the Justices appointed to sit on the Supreme Court until they croak, than we are about to get from Amy Coney Island.
Senator Klobuchar would make a great Majority Leader or AG.
This is the Amy Klobuchar we should have seen during the debates. So is this one, giving hell to Ted Slimeball Cruz: https://www.youtube.com/wat...
I seldom post on Wonkette as my comments are generally immature, alcohol-fueled attacks on posts of no consequence and I contribute nothing of substance. Having considered sarafina's response (see below), I say that your post is generically sarcastic enough yet relevant enough to fit seemlessly in with the rest of the comments in this thread and you needn't apologize. Your comment stands on it's own. Maybe Sarafina's tinea corporis isn't responding to the new cream. With respect to (soon to be) Judge Anal Boney Carrot and her wholesome family, I don't believe it. My sister married into a family that is one of those catholic fanatic types and hoo, boy, they are something else. Everything is a lie, the grandparents are psychos, the adults are barely functional alcoholics and the kids are shit-eating nightmares but they pretend that they are "perfect...oh, so perfect". I expect that Boney Carrot's family is much the same. They're catholics, not mormons, for fuck's sake. Someone in that family has had an abortion. Someone else is gay. At least 3 of em are drug addicts. And one of them punched his wife so hard she has mild brain damage. Let's see through the perfect and have a look at the ugly underneath. Because what you see here is an elaborate game of "lets pretend."
"Fuck yourself with a rake"WITH VOTES!
Holy fuck! This is fucking awesome.
I love how Rs talk out of both sides of their mouths. Trump promised a SCOTUS who would overturn Roe, ACA and help him win the election and now they're all "we don't know if she would do those things, maybe she wouldn't' like they can't own that that is what they want.
They should have doubled the size of district and circuit courts before this. Given the population growth not increasing the size of the court is denial of jurisprudence.
She traveled back in time and forced Franken to grope and assault women?
Then HELL YES she should be Majority Leader. Time traveling Senate Majority Leader would be awesome.
He has a kind of Dane-Cook esque panache, I'll give him that.
Everybody just grab a crowbar for now, the development of the Gravity Gun is still in progress.
thank you for raking the forest, any chance you could come out to california and rake some of ours?
Lindsey is desperate. He's afraid he's going to have to hire a lower class of male escorts soon if he doesn't get re-elected.
Sorry. Mine burned up.
Can you even imagine if Biden got a chance and nominated a black woman with that many kids??