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...Justices over the age of 70 currently serving on the court. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist is severely ailing and may resign within the year. The conservative justices President Bush will now almost certainly appoint will begin to build a conservative majority that could reverse the steps taken in Roe v. Wade, in affirmative action cases and in Title IX cases. This country is also currently fighting a war in which many young Americans have sacrificed their lives and about which many young people have expressed strong opinions. These are solely our generation’s issues: young women have...
...explained by the one in five voters who said that moral values were the most important issue driving their vote—four out of five of them backed Bush. The fact that the next president would have a chance to appoint a Supreme Court justice, potentially overturning Roe v. Wade, and the fact that gay marriage was on the ballot in states such Ohio helped drive these voters to the polls, potentially swinging the election in Bush’s favor...
...1953–1969,” Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School Morton J. Horwitz opened his class yesterday with a discussion of how Bush’s re-election would affect the Supreme Court, particularly Justice appointments and interpretations of cases such as Roe v. Wade...
...promising a return to the foreign policy of the first President Bush rather than that of the radical son. He's less radical than his opponent on Social Security (he says he'll leave it alone, while Bush wants to reform it). He will leave Roe v. Wade in place, and he will undo Bush's fusion of government money with religious charitable groups. Whatever else Kerry is running as, it's not as a radical. In fact, Kerry seems the more conservative figure. In the debates, he was calmer, cooler and less prone to rapid personality shifts...
...mortgaging of the environment in deference to corporate interests. And based on Bush’s nominees for federal appeals courts, we shudder to think how Bush’s Supreme Court nominees would alter the social landscape of this country—starting with a repeal of Roe v. Wade—for the decades to come...