{"id":72491,"date":"2015-08-28T12:08:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T16:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=72491"},"modified":"2015-08-28T12:08:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T16:08:49","slug":"trump-sister-defended-partial-birth-abortion-potential-scotus-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/trump-sister-defended-partial-birth-abortion-potential-scotus-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Sister who defended partial-birth abortion a potential SCOTUS nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>In an interview with Bloomberg Politics, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/423196\/trump-praises-his-sister-pro-abortion-extremist-judge-ramesh-ponnuru\">responded to a question<\/a> about his sister, senior Third Circuit Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, by saying she would make &#8220;one of the best&#8221; Supreme Court Justices.<\/p>\n<p>But in his pro-life book <em>The Party of Death<\/em>, National Review senior editor Ramesh Ponnuru recounts that Barry has ruled against the constitutionality of banning partial-birth abortion. Barry wrote that one such law in New Jersey was &#8220;based on semantic machinations, irrational line-drawing, and an obvious attempt to inflame public opinion instead of logic or medical evidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->After striking it down in a previous case, the US Supreme Court upheld the\u00a0federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in 2007&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/supct\/html\/05-380.ZS.html\">Gonzales v. Carhart<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump did, however, say on the prospect of nominating his sister should he become President, &#8220;We will have to rule that out now, at least,&#8221; though he did not make clear whether he meant he would never nominate her, or if he was simply alluding to his earlier-stated contention that it was too early to discuss presidential nominees.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has sent mixed messages on abortion during his campaign. He has <a href=\"\/news\/gop-presidential-candidates-speak-against-planned-parenthood-defend-life\/\">declared<\/a> that he is &#8220;very, very proud&#8221; to identify as pro-life following a conversion he attributes to personal friends who chose life after considering abortion. He has also\u00a0<a href=\"\/news\/cruz-trump-shut-government-defund-planned-parenthood\/\">expressed willingness<\/a> to risk a government shutdown to defund Planned Parenthood, but he has <a href=\"\/news\/planned-parenthood-voices-approval-donald-trumps-claim-pp-good-women\/\">wavered<\/a> on that pledge, suggesting the abortion giant still deserves taxpayer dollars for performing other health services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Bloomberg Politics, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump responded to a question about his sister, senior Third Circuit Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, by saying she would make &#8220;one of the best&#8221; Supreme Court Justices. 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