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...overabundance of leisure has finally exasperated majority leader George Mitchell. When other Senators beseeched him to postpone legislative business so that they could attend their children's graduations, the annoyed Mitchell cried, "When can we vote?" On a recent Friday he scheduled a procedural vote on a motion to compel absentees to return to the Capitol. Nine failed to answer the roll call, but it could have been worse. Several Senators canceled their plane reservations at the last minute to appear at Mitchell's "bed check...
Last week the Supreme Court faced these tough questions in its first abortion rulings since the landmark Webster decision last July. In a 5-to-4 vote, the Justices upheld a Minnesota law requiring unwed teenagers to notify both parents before an abortion if the law allows minors to go to a judge instead. In a 6-to-3 vote, the court upheld Ohio's requirement that a physician notify one parent of a pregnant minor of her intent to have an abortion; it also provided for judicial bypass...
...good life, as they had seen it nightly on West German television, 16 million East Germans would be inside the supermarket with real money in their pockets. In the country's first-ever free election last March, people acted not only on the principle of one man, one vote, but also for one mark, one mark. Last Sunday, when monetary union between the two parts of the country took effect, they began to collect...
...good reason, Sandra Day O'Connor is known as the abortion swing vote on the U.S. Supreme Court. In two of the cases last week involving parental notification, O'Connor swayed between the court's evenly balanced liberal and conservative wings. She joined court liberals in a 5-to-4 majority that overturned the Minnesota law requiring adolescents to inform both parents ! before obtaining an abortion. Then she moved rightward to give conservatives a 5-to-4 majority that approved the Minnesota law that offers minors the option of getting permission for abortion from a judge...
Peregrinations such as these have made O'Connor a moving target for antiabortion forces, who are determined to see her provide the decisive fifth vote to overturn or at least neutralize Roe v. Wade. Their goal is to send before the court a succession of laws that will chip away at her ill-defined middle ground, until it is too narrow to stand...