{"id":38252,"date":"2020-02-25T07:18:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T12:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38252"},"modified":"2020-02-25T07:18:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T12:18:49","slug":"the-impact-of-president-trumps-judicial-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38252","title":{"rendered":"The Impact Of President Trump’s Judicial Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The Daily Caller<\/a> reported that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the Trump administration can continue stripping federal funding from clinics that offer abortions. Note that he did not shut down the clinics–he just said that they would not receive federal funding. That ruling is an example of the impact President Trump’s judicial appointments have had on the Ninth Circuit.<\/p>\n

Yesterday Fox News<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

President Trump has reshaped\u00a0the \u201cnotoriously liberal\u201d U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, according to Carrie Severino<\/a>, the conservative Judicial Crisis Network’s chief counsel and policy director, who noted it was\u00a0often referred to as the \u201cNinth Circus.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas<\/a>\u00a0made the comments Monday on \u201cFox & Friends<\/a>\u201d in response to a Los Angeles Times article titled \u201cTrump has flipped the 9th Circuit \u2014 and some new judges are causing a \u2018shock wave.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article said that when President Trump talks about his accomplishments in office, \u201che frequently mentions his aggressive makeover of a key sector of the federal judiciary \u2014 the circuit courts of appeal, where he has appointed 51 judges to lifetime jobs in three years.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals<\/a>,\u00a0which\u00a0encompasses California, Arizona, Alaska, Hawaii, Montana, Nevada, Idaho, Guam, Oregon\u00a0and Washington,\u00a0was\u00a0a liberal bastion that has been aggressively reshaped\u00a0into a more moderate court by the Trump administration.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Daily Caller notes:<\/p>\n

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) followed the decision in June by alerting clinics that it would enforce the administration\u2019s ban. Planned Parenthood withdrew<\/a> from the Title X federal family planning program, thereby forgoing about $60 million a year, in August 2019 rather than comply with this decision.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Daily Caller article includes a screenshot of a comment by Leana Wen, M.D., a former president of Planned Parenthood. She comments that she will continue to fight so that millions of women across the country can receive care. Note the vocabulary used here–abortion is being framed as care. In a stretch of logic I suppose you could consider abortion care for the mother, but it is definitely not care for the baby. By controlling the vocabulary, Dr. Wen seeks to control the argument. The government should not be funding clinics that lead women to abortions–they should be funding clinics that lead women to prenatal care and support for their pregnancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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