Trump’s SCOTUS Pick Is Drawing Heat On Both Sides Of Abortion Debate Over The Case Of An Undocum

https://www.buzzfeed.com/emaoconnor...sides-of-the?utm_term=.yjOwAwRz61#.dpyEmEeRvG

Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s dissent in the case of an undocumented teenager trying to get an abortion is either the first step to overturning Roe v. Wade or doesn't go far enough, depending on whom you ask.

An October court case deciding whether an undocumented teenager in US custody should be allowed to have an abortion could have implications for the Senate confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nominee for the US Supreme Court, Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

Kavanaugh’s late 2017 dissent to a US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruling drew criticism from both anti-abortion and pro-abortion rights advocates, who, on the one hand, accused Kavanaugh of over compromising and undermining the Trump administration and, on the other, of undermining Supreme Court precedent protecting the right to an abortion.
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We're off & running on the abortion debate.

Any pick that Trump would have come up with, stated in advance or not, would probably be anti-abortion.

It was rather foolish to assume that Kavanaugh (or anyone else on his list) would be some absolute neutral party totally devoid of political ideology, despite the yearbook answer on what a Supreme Court judge should operate like. As such it makes sense that this is the conversation we are having even though the court has been 5-4 leaning Conservative for long enough and abortion is still around.

We also have to keep in mind that the political ideology of a President making a nomination is matched by the political ideology of Congress asking any potential Supreme Court pick a series of questions rooted in... wait for it... their own political ideology.

This post is not intended to agree or forgive Kavanaugh, nor intended to agree or forgive Trump.

The reality is elections have consequences and we quite literally handed the Presidency to a lunatic because the best Democrats could put up was Hillary who by all measure could not ensure the same degree of support that Obama carried, and worse Congress stayed in Republican hands.

The midterms are not here yet and odds are Kavanaugh will get his seat, with all that it implies.

The history books will remind us of what Republicans have done with Trump and this 115th Congress (especially with these Supreme Court picks,) but the real story is Democrats screwed this all up given how they ended up doing in 2016 against a "grab em by the *****" Republican.