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Wendy Davis, the former Texas state Senator and failed gubernatorial candidate<\/a> who rose to prominence by filibustering a ban on late-term abortion, is speaking out<\/a> against Senate Republicans for wanting to delay the confirmation of a successor to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia… and setting up quite a double-standard in the process.<\/p>\n

Scalia died last month at age 79, igniting a confrontation between President Barack Obama, who wants to name a successor as soon as possible, and leaders who demand that the Senate not approve anyone until the next president takes office next January. If a pro-life president makes the nomination, it would maintain the status quo of four (well, maybe<\/a>) pro-life justices, four pro-abortion ones, and Anthony Kennedy the wild card<\/a>. If Obama makes it, though, it would swing the balance of power on the court and potentially set the right to life back generations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Naturally, disenfranchising pro-life voters on even more aspects of abortion law sounds pretty good to Davis. So on a recent Democratic National Committee conference call featuring NARAL President Ilyse Hogue, Davis complained:<\/p>\n

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Never in the history of the U.S. Senate have we seen such obstruction as we\u2019re seeing here […] The integrity of the [Affordable Care Act] and Roe v. Wade are at stake here, and it’s certainly the case… that the GOP is cheating the American people out of having a full court to decide on these issues of national importance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oh, the irony. The only reason anyone outside of Texas knows her name, the reason she currently enjoys folk-hero status<\/a> among pro-abortion extremists, is because<\/em> of obstructionism.<\/p>\n

She spent eleven hours filibustering pro-life legislation, attempting to deny Texans an up-or-down vote by running out the legislative clock. In doing so, she was denying the will of 62% of her state’s voters<\/a>. It’s one thing to say the majority is wrong, and another to defy the people then turn around and lecture the rest of us about “cheating” them.<\/p>\n

On that point, those who insist that “democracy” requires giving whoever Obama nominates an up-or-down vote have cited Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren’s point<\/a> that the American people chose Obama in 2012… without noticing that those same people also gave the chamber that votes<\/em> on<\/em> nominees back to the GOP two years after that<\/a>. If we’re supposed to take either election as any kind of mandate, the more recent one would logically take precedence.<\/p>\n

It’s also too rich that Davis invokes the integrity Obamacare and Roe<\/em> in the same sentence as “cheating the American people.” The public has consistently opposed<\/a> the abortion-subsidizing<\/a> Obamacare all along, and the very purpose of Roe<\/em> is to prevent them from voting on abortion policy for themselves. And speaking of “integrity,” the Supreme Court currently upholds both by distorting the law<\/a> and the Constitution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finally, contrary to her complaints, an 8-member court deciding these issues isn’t ideal for us, either. As Live Action’s Susan Michelle explains<\/a>, an even split in the Texas case would leave HB2 in place, but not set a precedent to vindicate pro-life laws elsewhere. And even if a pro-lifer wins the White House in November and Scalia’s replacement is solidly pro-life, it will only return SCOTUS to the status quo; it won’t guarantee us judicial victory.<\/p>\n

America is only eight months away from choosing the next president. In January, we’ll know exactly who the people would like to nominate the next Supreme Court Justice — and who they want in the Senate to review his pick. The only reason Wendy Davis and her pro-abortion ilk have for rushing the decision is to install another pro-abortion judicial activist to continue rigging the game in their favor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wendy Davis, the former Texas state Senator and failed gubernatorial candidate who rose to prominence by filibustering a ban on late-term abortion, is speaking out against Senate Republicans for wanting to delay the confirmation of a successor to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia… and setting up quite a double-standard in the process. 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