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Ironically, many women are hoping that their movement will get a strong boost next year if the Supreme Court decides to overturn or restrict the abortion rights granted by the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Major decisions are often handed down in late June or early July, at the end of the court's annual session. An antiabortion ruling then would give speakers at the Democrats' July convention the ammunition to denounce the work of G.O.P.-appointed Justices. Republicans have reason to worry: the issue divides their party and has already cost them the governorships of Virginia, New Jersey...
...harassment happens) says he did it; therefore 3) Clarence Thomas is guilty as charged (without trial), should be kept off the Supreme Court, and bears the monstrous guilt of all men everywhere, so now that he is on the court all his future decisions, including any possible opinions on Roe v. Wade, are illegitimate, the product of his sick mind. And by extension, all future decisions of this conservative Supreme Court affecting women are contaminated by what Anita Hill claims to have happened years ago between a man and a woman in an office -- words about pubic hair...
...revealed about his legal philosophy, he may as well have been wearing a bag over his head. When pressed on matters of moment, he backed away from most every opinion he had ever expressed. Incredibly, he told Senators with a straight face that he had "no opinion" on Roe v. Wade, thus marking himself as probably the only person in the U.S. without a view on the Supreme Court's landmark abortion-rights decision. "Thomas' answers and explanations about previous speeches, articles and positions," said Alabama Senator Howell Heflin, "raised thoughts of inconsistencies, ambiguities, contradictions, lack of scholarship, lack...
Thomas may exude moral authority while categorically denying ever asking Hill out or ever talking about sex with Hill, but he exuded that same moral authority while insisting that he has no opintion on Roe v. Wade, or that his heartfelt defense of natural law was nothing but philosophical musings. We didn't believe him then, and we don't believe...
...brave, suffering and credible witness," the majority says. Only the most biased observer could argue that Thomas did not. I wanted to believe Hill. I wanted not to believe Thomas. But even though he's dodged questions before and asserted idiotically that he never thought about Roe, I cannot say with certainty that I "believe" he is lying...