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This first abortion case for Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’76 and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. is the first time the Supreme Court has supported a ban of any abortion method or barred a specific medical procedure. Despite being couched in the language of decisions past, the ruling in fact ignores the spirit of decades of precedent in order to set its own, dangerous, one. From here, there can be no question of the court’s intended direction, succinctly, albeit chillingly, put by the author of the majority opinion, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy...
...court said a woman could still challenge the law by showing that she would get sick without the procedure. And while Justice Clarence Thomas, with Antonin Scalia, wrote separately that the right to abortion shouldn't exist, the court's two new Bush-appointed members--John Roberts and Samuel Alito--didn't join them. That may bode well for the future of Roe v. Wade...
...process of removing the fetus whole (hence the phrase partial birth) - but also standard D&E, which involves removing the fetus in pieces. Together, the procedures account for most second-trimester abortions. But Kennedy, writing for the court majority of himself, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, John Roberts and Samuel Alito, said the statute was plenty precise, especially since a doctor couldn't violate it without "intending" to perform an intact D&E. And since there are lots of other abortion methods, Kennedy explained, banning this one wouldn't be much of a burden on a woman's rights...
...best news for abortion-rights supporters may be what didn't happen in this case. We've all been waiting to see where the court's two Bush appointees - Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito - stand on Roe v. Wade, and when given the chance to repudiate it in this case, both justices declined. That opportunity came in the form of a separate opinion that Justice Clarence Thomas wrote and Scalia joined but both Roberts and Alito did not endorse - a concurrence that not only supports the majority, but goes so far as to say there shouldn...
...Other G.O.P. candidates have said they would appoint federal judges "in the mold" of Chief Justice Roberts and Associate Justices Scalia, Thomas and Alito. What type of judges would you appoint? -Bill Murphy Salt Lake City, Utah People who believe that the purpose of the judiciary is not to make law but to properly apply it. My own personal hero on the court is Scalia, not least because I duck-hunted with...