Tomi Lahren was on “Fox & Friends” this morning with a brand new hot take on SCOTUS and Roe v. Wade, telling everyone that the GOP is “implying that we’re sending a Supreme Court justice to the bench to carry out religious judicial activism”:
.@TomiLahren: Implying that we're sending a Supreme Court justice to the bench to carry out religious judicial activism is a mistake and unconstitutional. It’s not what conservatives stand for. pic.twitter.com/025CT3gZ9v
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) July 11, 2018
So, who implied this, Tomi?
Who is seriously implying this? https://t.co/pYs3TAYOu9
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) July 11, 2018
Because the answer is “no one”:
Literally no one implied this. Also important to note that Roe v Wade is considered to be big government’s answer re regulating abortion (as opposed to state by state) which undermines the “limited government” premise of the argument here. https://t.co/eHNW7r05bN
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) July 11, 2018
Charles C.W. Cooke sums it up nicely:
This is nonsense. The argument against Roe—and one not solely made by conservatives—is that its legal reasoning is weak to non-existent because the Constitution is silent on that question. To endorse that view is not “activism,” but the opposite. https://t.co/HpN0mIH9UE
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 11, 2018
And Harvard-educated lawyer A.J. Delgado concurs:
I don't want to jump on Tomi and respect her standing her ground on this issue but, as @charlescwcooke rightly points out, this is illogical, regardless of one's views on abortion. The anti-Roe position is that Roe WAS JUDICIAL ACTIVISM / judicial overreach https://t.co/tbR5cwnXay
— A.J. Delgado (@AJDelgado13) July 11, 2018
Can Tomi find a single “right-wing scholar” that agrees with her?
There is not a single right-wing scholar who thinks Roe v. Wade should be overturned because of religious conviction. It should be overturned because it's a Constitutional travesty. https://t.co/9X5r1YrwbM
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) July 11, 2018
And what about letting states decide?
It's "religious" judicial activism to want the court to let states decide their own laws on abortion — a procedure that has nothing to do with the Constitution? https://t.co/pJkL6nYnNq
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) July 11, 2018
Flashback: You know, what she said in the past (this was about gay marriage):
@worldchmps I am for state's rights but respect the SCOTUS decision though it may not agree with it! #onpoint
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) June 30, 2015
And maybe Fox News should just stop asking her SCOTUS questions:
Can you imagine MSNBC providing a platform for someone to demagogue the Left’s position like this from the Left? No, you can’t. https://t.co/7BXLc5ovT3
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) July 11, 2018
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