What would change under an 'Obama' Supreme Court?
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 10/8/2008 6:00:00 AM
Curt Levey, executive director of the Committee for Justice, says given Obama's opposition to the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, the nation's highest court under an Obama administration would likely reverse the federal ban on partial-birth abortion. According to Levey, two of the top ten priorities of an Obama Supreme Court would be to find that there is a constitutional right to taxpayer-funded abortions, and to order all 50 states to "bless" homosexual "marriage."
"Ten Commandments would be removed all over the place. 'Under God' would be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance. The death penalty would be banned," says Levey. "There'd probably be constitutional rights to all sorts of new things like human cloning and physician-assisted suicide. Racial preferences would proliferate."
Levey says an Obama Supreme Court would also likely do away with a decision that said federal banking laws preempt state and local laws. Such a move, the attorney says, would be felt in liberal states and localities like the District of Columbia.
"DC says that you have to make risky subprime mortgage loans to minority communities even if they're a bad business decision. So I think given the importance of that issue right now, I think an Obama Supreme Court would reverse that decision," he predicts. "You'd have all these liberal banking laws take effect -- and the very problem that led to the [current] financial crisis would actually be required under law."
And it is a given, he says, that the composition of the Supreme Court would change under an Obama administration. In his blog, Levey suggests that three liberal judges currently on the Supreme Court -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg (age 75), John Paul Stevens (88), and David Souter (69) -- are the most likely to retire should Obama win in November. But those three, he adds, may well hold out for the next four years if John McCain becomes president.
Levey's group has compiled a list of the "Top Ten Things to Expect from an Obama Supreme Court."
