Live from Music Row Monday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed the original all-star panelist Crom Carmichael to the studio for another edition of Crom’s Crommentary.
CROM CARMICHAEL:
Alrighty. Well, I have been watching this Mississippi abortion case and I want to read to you, this is the constitutional oath. Judges take two oaths. They take a constitutional oath and they take a judicial oath.
And this is the oath:
I blank, my name, do solemnly swear and affirm that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.
That I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that I will well faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter so help me God.
That’s the constitutional oath. Now here’s the judicial oath. This one is effective December 1990. It was changed tweaked a little bit. But this is the one now and every justice who’s serving took this oath.
I blank, do solemnly swear and affirm that I will administer justice without respect to persons and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as blank under the Constitution and laws of the United States so help me God.
Those are the oaths that they take. Now, the Constitution is not a document that is passed on word of mouth. The Constitution is a document that we all can read and can be changed only through the amendment process and in terms of the Constitution itself.
But to listen to Sotomayor and her comments. This is what she said. Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts.
She goes on to say, I don’t see how it is possible, how will we survive? How will the court survive? I want you to think about this just for a second. What is the issue that is before the Court? Not abortion.
But what is the issue? The issue is whether or not a group of nine people should determine what the law of the entire land is on the question of when life begins or does a fetus experience pain and if so, at what point? It’s one of those two.
It’s one of those two. Roe v. Wade said that the Supreme Court and not the people should determine when viability starts. And viability now, according to Governor Northam and Democrats, viability can actually start even after a child is birthed.
But Sotomayor says it’s not up to the people to make that decision. And she says there’s a certain stench that will cover us if we allow the people to make these decisions. And I find what Democrats are now saying is that we cannot have democracy in order to save democracy.
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