Taking questions at her confirmation hearing today Supreme Court aspirant Sonia Sotomayor says she considers the question of abortion rights “settled law” and asserts there is a constitutional right to privacy.
She obviously reads the same version of the Constitution that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a former ACLU attorney, has tucked away in her chambers.
In responding to questions on Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling legalizing abortion, Sotomayor told the Senate Judiciary Committee “there is a right of privacy” – that the court has found it in “various places in the Constitution.” Specifically she says the right is stated in the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure and in the 14th Amendment guaranteeing equal protection of the law.
The often reversed appeals court judge Sotomayor said that “all precedents of the Supreme Court I consider settled law.”
During Ginsburg’s 1993 confirmation hearing, she provided a strong and unequivocal defense of a woman’s right to abortion, saying it was based on the Constitution’s explicit guarantee of equal protection — as well as an “unstated right of privacy.“
“It is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision maker, that her choice be controlling,” Judge Ginsburg told the Senate Judiciary Committee at that time. “If you impose restraints, you are disadvantaging her because of her sex. The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.”
No word from Ginsburg on the full equity of the pre-born human infant or its father.
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The latest Rasmussen Reports survey finds that voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on eight out of 10 key electoral issues, including, for the second straight month, the top issue of the economy.
Republicans also narrowed the gap on the remaining two issues, the traditionally Democratic strong suits of health care and education
The percentage of voters trusting the GOP more on economic issues is 46% to 41%,. This is just the second time in over two years of polling the GOP has held the advantage on economic issues. The parties were close on the issue in May, with the Democrats holding a one-point lead.
Voters not affiliated with either party trust Republicans more to handle the economy by a wider 46% to 32% margin.
Last week’s report of 9.5 percent unemployment, the highest since 1983, raised doubts about the economy and the president’s handling of it. Consumer and investor confidence is now down to the lowest levels in three months. Just 39% now say President Obama is doing a good or an excellent job on the economy while 43% rate his performance as poor. Those are by far the weakest numbers yet for the president.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said she plans to return to the national political stage — stumping for conservative issues and even Democrats – giving a brief glimpse into her plans just a week after abruptly announcing her departure from the governor’s post.
“I will go around the country on behalf of candidates who believe in the right things, regardless of their party label or affiliation,” she said
“People are so tired of the partisan stuff – even my own son is not a Republican,” said the 45-year-old Palin, who stunned the political world earlier this month with her decision to step down as governor July 26 with 18 months remaining in her term.
She has made no secret of the fact that both her son, Track, 20, an enlisted soldier serving in Iraq, and her husband, Todd, are registered as “nonpartisan” in Alaska.
Palin confirmed signing a book contract — rumored to be $6 million or more. She declined to discuss other employment prospects, including becoming a television commentator, according to a fascinating three page report in the Washington Times.
“I think one of the cautions that has to be given to the president — and I’ve talked to some of his people about this — is that you can’t have so many things on the table that you can’t absorb it all. And we can’t pay for it all,” Powell said.
“And I never would have believed that we would have budgets that are running into the multi-trillions of dollars, and we are amassing a huge, huge national debt that, if we don’t pay for in our lifetime, our kids and grandkids and great grandchildren will have to pay for it.
Gov. Palin announces no second term, no ‘lame duck’ session
In a surprise announcement Gov. Sarah Palin says she will not seek a second term as Governor of the State of Alaska and will relegate the power of governor to Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell in order to serve Alaska’s best interests. Lieutenant General Craig Campbell will move into Parnell’s current role.
The transfer of power will occur following the Governor’s picnic in Fairbanks on July 26. At that point in time, Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell will be sworn in and Lieutenant General Craig Campbell will assume his role as Lieutenant Governor. Governor Palin will spend July 4th in Juneau.
Read some of the accomplishments of the Palin Administration at the bottom of this link to the Governor‘s website.
FOX News also weighs in with this interesting, analytical report.
Employers cut 467,000 jobs in June, far more than expected, and the jobless rate hit a 26-year high of 9.5 percent. Since the start of the recession in December 2007, the number of unemployed persons has increased by 7.2 million, and the unemployment rate has risen by 4.6 percentage points. The number of unemployed persons stands at 14.7 million, according to the most recent U.S. Department of Labor report.
Just as worrisome, wages sunk to their lowest rate in nearly a year.
The bleak news from the Labor Department underscored one of the big threats to an economic turnaround: Rising joblessness and falling wages for those still working could send Americans back into spending hibernation and short-circuit any recovery.
The falling wages come from furloughs, pay freezes and pay cuts imposed by employers across the country. Many also have cut hours: The average work week in June fell to 33 hours, the lowest on records dating to 1964.
Todd S. Purdum has written a particularly scathing article about Gov. Sarah Palin in the August issue of Vanity Fair magazine. In the lengthy piece, It Came from Wasilla, the author low-rides on anonymous sources from within the former McCain presidential campaign, who unload on the onetime Republican Vice Presidential running mate.
In view of the fact that many credit Sarah Palin with returning recalcitrant Republicans to the fold and bringing their much needed votes with them, Purdum’s absurd slam lacks resonance. Living in Washington. D.C., he might have missed seeing the numerous bumper stickers on cars driving around McCain’s home state of Arizona that had pointedly cut the name ‘McCain’ off.
The Alaska governor, whom Purdum refers to as the “first indisputably fertile female to dare to dance with the big dogs,” came onboard at the request of Sen. John McCain, who was looking to expand his base and recoup the woman’s vote, which had been steadily slipping from his grasp.
It’s worth remembering that Purdum, the magazine’s national editor, is married to Vanity Fair contributing editor, Dee Dee Myers, a committed liberal who was Bill Clinton’s White House Press Secretary — clearly exposing this venture as an all-in-the-family, left-leaning gambit.
The two-term governor has recently been AWOL from his duties. Sanford, 49, a former real estate investor and Air Force reservist had previously been mentioned as a potential presidential contender in 2012
State Rep. Nikki Haley, who is widely seen as Gov. Mark Sanford’s choice to replace him as governor of South Carolina in 2010, has removed a picture of the governor from her campaign Web site, according to the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza. The governor’s own web page appears to be down.
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