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« on: March 16, 2016, 09:23:13 AM »

I don't know much about him.  He would probably be unacceptable to people like me, I would guess, though?
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« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2016, 06:37:44 PM »

If we have to have a moderate, let it be a Manchin/JBE type who would vote to overturn Roe and uphold Heller.
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« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2016, 04:33:19 PM »

If we have to have a moderate, let it be a Manchin/JBE type who would vote to overturn Roe and uphold Heller.

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No, the decision in Roe itself was judicial activism.  Overturning it would just be correcting a mistake.  The same could be said about Obergefell, but overturning it, while still a goal, is not as high of a priority, because no one has died as a result of it.
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