Odd thought
Sep. 14th, 2005 04:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
libertangoI've been listening to the Roberts confirmation hearings most of the day (about which I'll say more later). NPR is doing a precis of it as part of All Things Considered, and they put back-to-back sets of questions by Senator Brownback of Kansas:
* How does Roberts feel about abortion? Is an "unborn child" a piece of property, or a person? Because, says Mr. Brownback, (approximately) "In our legal system, you're either one of the other." This is an offshoot of the thinking the Bush was alluding to when in the debates he started talking about Dred Scott.
* Then there was a set of questions about the recent Kelo decision, and eminent domain.
Here's the scary part: How the subversives (a term I also need to write more about) could learn to adopt Kelo, and love eminent domain:
If "unborn children" are "property", couldn't the gummint exercise eminent domain on 'em?
{beat}
Told you it was scary.
* How does Roberts feel about abortion? Is an "unborn child" a piece of property, or a person? Because, says Mr. Brownback, (approximately) "In our legal system, you're either one of the other." This is an offshoot of the thinking the Bush was alluding to when in the debates he started talking about Dred Scott.
* Then there was a set of questions about the recent Kelo decision, and eminent domain.
Here's the scary part: How the subversives (a term I also need to write more about) could learn to adopt Kelo, and love eminent domain:
If "unborn children" are "property", couldn't the gummint exercise eminent domain on 'em?
{beat}
Told you it was scary.
