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...Court outcomes were different. One involved a recently-installed display in a Kentucky courthouse, and the other was about a monument that had been outside the state capital in Texas for 40 years. The Court struck down the courthouse display and upheld the Texas monument. Both decisions were five-to-four, and Justice Stephen Breyer, who was my administrative law professor at Harvard, was the swing vote. It baffled me, but I finally boiled it down to a philosophy of 'if it's old and outside, it's okay, and if it's new and inside, it's not okay...
Amid the hullabaloo following the Supreme Court’s five-to-four decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban, America’s elite newspapers responded predictably...
...Supreme Court’s five-to-four ruling on the intact dilation and extraction method of abortion on Wednesday was hardly unexpected, given its shifting ideological balance. Nevertheless, the decision to uphold the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act marked many unfortunate firsts for the new Roberts Court. At best, this reversal of precedent is worrisome, poaching abortion rights today; at worst, it is simply wrong—the first step toward completely denying a woman’s right to choose tomorrow...
...from a state that has not supported a Republican presidential nominee in nearly two decades. As the Washington Post lamented, the Supreme Court “examined a fundamental breakdown in American democracy and responded with a shrug.” If Vieth’s tenuous five-to-four majority remains in place, then the Court probably will not intervene to stop any partisan redistricting plans. That precedent, coupled with the potential repercussions of the Texas redistricting scheme, have laid the groundwork for a crisis in the democratic process. The next time a party wrests control of the executive...
...five-to-four decision, the Cambridge City Council voted last week to uphold civil liberties that it said are “under siege” because of the federal government’s response to the Sept. 11 attacks...