Last week, the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that outlawed state anti-abortion laws and federalized an issue that, for all but the last 50 years of our history, was decided by the states. Critics falsely …
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Overturning Roe: A Conservative Legal Triumph and Return to Common Sense
Today’s opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overruling Roe v. Wade is a momentous achievement of the conservative legal movement and an act of great courage, to say nothing of common sense and fidelity to the Constitution, by …
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Are All Court-Created Rights Now in Peril?
In the storm that erupted over the leaked draft opinion of Justice Samuel Alito, which would overturn Roe v. Wade, a secondary alarm has arisen among our elites. If Roe is overturned, it is said, a whole raft of …
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The Supreme Court Leaks Common Sense: Justice Alito’s Splendid Opinion
If the mysteriously leaked draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization becomes the official decision of the United States Supreme Court, it will be the greatest victory for sensible constitutional jurisprudence in at least …
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Alito 5 Must Stay the Course
In February, five Supreme Court Justices voted in camera to overturn Roe v. Wade and send the issue of abortion back to the states, where it resided until 1973. Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett …
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And Injustice for All
Kentanji Brown Jackson has been abused, but not by her interrogators at the Supreme Court nomination hearings. Their probing questions, however combative, are only to be expected as part of the process. She has been abused, rather, by most everyone
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