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In a 5 - 4 decision SCOTUS struck down the Luisiana abortion law.
GOOD.
GOOD.
Sad. Chief Justice John Roberts has shown that he is more interested in his place in history than anything else. Considering he voted to uphold the Texas law that was almost identical just eight years ago.
Louisiana.
Yes, how dare he not reduce women to incubation chambers, non-deserving of rights to their bodies. Why he should recognize women are reproduction property to the men. :roll:
Sad. Chief Justice John Roberts has shown that he is more interested in his place in history than anything else. Considering he voted to uphold the Texas law that was almost identical just eight years ago.
Roberts had been on the dissenting side of the Texas Whole Woman's case. In his concurring opinion with the majority on June Medical, Roberts explained that he still believed his 2016 opinion that "the case was wrongly decided," but he joined the majority this time around because "the question today" is on "whether to adhere to [the Whole Woman's case] in deciding the present case." Essentially, Roberts based his decision not on his opinion on the law itself, but on the basic concept of precedent.
"The legal doctrine of stare decisis requires us, absent special circumstances, to treat like cases alike," he wrote. "The Louisiana law imposes a burden on access to abortion just as severe as that imposed by the Texas law, for the same reasons. Therefore Louisiana’s law cannot stand under our precedents."
The right to a legal abortion was not at issue in this case.
If I were nominating Supreme Court justices I would nominate those who had no special belief in stare decisis.
In a 5 - 4 decision SCOTUS struck down the Luisiana abortion law.
GOOD.
Note, the two anti-freedom bastards Trump appointed voted to deny women their rights.
Sad. Chief Justice John Roberts has shown that he is more interested in his place in history than anything else. Considering he voted to uphold the Texas law that was almost identical just eight years ago.
Louisiana.
Good for them. A couple more like them on the court and we'll start returning to sanity in this country.
Sad. Chief Justice John Roberts has shown that he is more interested in his place in history than anything else. Considering he voted to uphold the Texas law that was almost identical just eight years ago.
Uncle Thomas and Alito are pretty long in the tooth. Joe will probably pick three judges in his first term.
Sad. Chief Justice John Roberts has shown that he is more interested in his place in history than anything else. Considering he voted to uphold the Texas law that was almost identical just eight years ago.
Perhaps though one of them will likely be that living fossil Ginsburg which won't change anything.
and he still has to get them approved by the Senate which as of now is still controlled by the GOP with a decent chance it will still be so in 2021.
I think he is more interested in doing the right thing, this law was the very worst thing. It would have flaunted in the face of Roe v. Wade and all other abortion decisions after Roe v. Wade.
And maybe in the 8 years past he has grown a brain and understanding of the power his office holds and the desire not to make judicial activism pay off.