Trump Met with Anti-Abortion Judge for Supreme Court Seat, Report Says

[DonViejo]

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 PEOTUS’s shortlist grew to be as long as 21 names, and is now down to 20.

If Pryor ends up being the final choice, it’d 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.” It’s 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]

1. Yes indeed. Revenge is the only thing on the menu.

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]

2. Let's hope Schumer means what he said about keeping the seat vacant.

[Vinca]

3. Send all the unwanted babies to Trump Tower.

[MFM008]

4. Schumer said no go

And if he back tracks he needs to be primaried.

[dalton99a]

7. Absolutely.

[onenote]

5. Collins voted against him in 2005

Wonder whether she'd stick to her guns.

[sarah FAILIN]

6. Another Alabama boy

What an embarrassment. I'm surprised he didn't pick Roy Moore to be honest.

[jmowreader]

9. The only reason he didn't is Moore is 70 years old

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]

10. It still seems like someone he would pick

2 nutcases

[FBaggins]

12. He hasn't picked anyone yet

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]

8. No surprise here, this is the guy Trump dangled as a nominee if elected, after all.

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]

11. He's also anti-LGBT

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Pryor_Jr.
....."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]"