Trump Finally Weighs In On SCOTUS Abortion Ruling With Some Bad Math

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo

After several days of silence regarding the Supreme Court's ruling against a Texas anti-abortion law, Donald Trump on Thursday finally weighed in on the decision and claimed that such a ruling would not occur if he were to appoint the next Supreme Court justice.

"Now if we had — Scalia was living or if Scalia was replaced by me, you wouldn’t have had that. Okay? It would’ve been the opposite," Trump told conservative radio host Mike Gallagher.

To be clear, the Supreme Court voted 5-3 against the Texas law, and a ninth justice would not have been enough to change the court's opinion.

In the case, the Supreme Court struck down Texas provisions that required abortion clinics to have admitting privileges to nearby hospitals and mandated that the clinics meet the same standards as surgical centers.

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-scotus-abortion-texas

[Agschmid]

1. Not shocked, he no longer shocks me with his stupidity.

[Third Doctor]

2. Sadly

his supporters (morons) believe everything he says.

[christx30]

3. Well, to them, Scalia was worth 7 justices.

So if he had been alive it would have been 5-10. So he's right, if you're delusional.

[RAFisher]

4. Trump seems to be saying SCOTUS won't rule against him if he's president.

"You won’t even have to question. You wouldn’t even have to bother going to court. You’re going to know the answers," he said.

Gallagher then asked Trump if the court would issue a majority opinion like the one issued in the Texas abortion law case if Trump were elected president.

"No," Trump replied. "You wouldn't see that."

He then goes off on Robert saying he's a "very, very sad situation" because of the ACA ruling. WTF. Does he think he can just fire the justices? The only think he could do would be to stack SCOTUS with his justices. But to do that he'd need congress to change the size of SCOTUS.

[OldHippieChick]

5. Because the Supreme Court works for me and they will do what I say

or I will overturn them. Isn't that the way it works?

What a frigging doofus.

[liberalmuse]

9. It's a bit unnerving.

I think he actually believes this is all a reality show where he can fire people at will.

[forgotmylogin]

11. I still believe he doesn't actually know how Presidenting works.

He's obviously not aware that the SC is a check on Presidential power.

CHECKS AND BALANCES.

No, not the ones you write, Donald...

[0rganism]

6. maybe he thinks Scalia would have convinced Kennedy?

who am i to speculate what Orange Foolius might be thinking?
in the end, i guess it's not what he thinks that matters, it's what he can convince voters to think
as part of the "reality-based community" we are constrained in our thinking, whereas DJT is constructing his own reality for us to analyze later, as with W's bunch
maybe he's floating these nuggets as trial balloons to see just how stupid the electorate is

[bucolic_frolic]

7. I don't think it's bad math

I think it's Donald saying he will strong arm Supreme Court Justices into
ruling how he likes

Calling them up and saying do this, do that

That's what narcissists do, make a lot of noise, rush in, tell everybody
what to do to suit them, take what they want, and threaten to do it again

[olddad56]

8. don't forget that if Donald was in the SCOTUS, he would fire the others.

therefore his pizza logic makes perfect sense.

[0rganism]

10. that'd be an interesting "gotcha" question right there

Reporter: "Mr. Trump, if you are elected president, which Supreme Court justices will you fire?"
Mr. Yam: "Let's see, I'd definitely fire the Obama justices, what are their names again? Scoochy? McGraw? Wait, I can do that, right?"
and another opportunity for all of us

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Hopefully Trump will start renaming everyone

you know there's Pocahontas

What will he call Sonia Sotomayor?

Clarence Thomas?

Kennedy?

Everyone has an ethnic background, so all could have a
Trump nickname

[ThoughtCriminal]

12. He plans to fire all of them and replace the Supreme Court with...

THE EXTREME COURT!!!

[cynzke]

15. HE'D APPOINT.....

His kids for starters. Then Palin and Bachmann.

[Shoonra]

14. Trumps proves he cannot do simple arithmetic

Even with Scalia alive and voting his usual way, the Supreme Court vote would have been 5-4, instead of 5-3, still a win for the pro-choice side.

And the fact that Donald Trump, the man who tells us he's got such a good brain, cannot figure out this simple arithmetic may help explain his string of bankruptcies and his inability to follow the threads of simple logic (e.g., a gunman born in NY is not an immigrant, would not have been kept out by anti-immigrant policies).

A President who makes such obvious mistakes is going to make us the laughing stock of the world; he's not going to command respect from other nations nor from Congress nor from our troops. But he may spread worry that someone who makes such simplistic errors could stumble us into a war (yes, it's happened before), or a brutal economic meltdown (ditto).

[treestar]

16. And is the media going to pounce on this?

Probably not.