Katie Couric: Do you think there's an inherent right to privacy in the Constitution ...[S]pecific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance. Various guarantees create zones of privacy. Griswold v. Connecticut, 389 U.S. 479, 484 (1965) (citation omitted).
Sarah Palin: I do, yeah I do.
Couric: ... that's the cornerstone of Roe v. Wade?
Palin: I do.
Huh. And all this time I was led to believe that for conservatives, this is one of the most reviled passages in U.S. Supreme Court annals.
Whaddya know. All your base are energize by us.
Gift for understatement:
ReplyDeleteIt would make it more of a fair fight if Palin seemed to know in detail what Roe held and also how it was related to Griswold, which would be possible if she knew that there was a case called Griswold.
Either she's hustling, or the Republican Party is doomed.
ReplyDeletePalin Replys: "Clark Griswold? I LOVED him in the Vacation Movies. Now there's a family I can relate to, especially cousin Eddie.
ReplyDeleteAnd, you know, after the Griswolds went on their "European Vacation" Clark, you know, became an expert in forgien policy decisions.
Well, Clark did have a passport WAY before Palin did.
ReplyDeleteBreaking: Ockham's Razor overturned on appeal.
ReplyDeleteEither proposition would be difficult to maintain and should not be attempted in an impromptu style in a high-stakes situation. This is the sort of thing a Supreme Court nominee facing confirmation hearings would prepare for intensely and face with trepidation. Palin deserves credit for seeing the situation for what is was and opting out.
Biden: I think the liberty clause of the 14th Amendment ... offers a right to privacy. Now that's one of the big debates that I have with my conservative scholar friends, that they say, you know, unless a right is enumerated — unless it's actually, unless [it] uses the word "privacy" in the Constitution — then no such "constitutional right" exists. Well, I think people have an inherent right.
ReplyDeleteAlthouse: Again, this is blatantly wrong and unchallenged. Some conservatives reject the right to privacy, but Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito clearly affirmed it in their confirmation hearings in Biden's own committee. Is Biden deliberately lying or is he ignorant?
What in the world is she talking about.