Comments on: The Beginning of the End http://www.lunaticleft.com/2007/04/18/the-beginning-of-the-end/ Yes, this is where we live. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:13:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: vijay http://www.lunaticleft.com/2007/04/18/the-beginning-of-the-end/#comment-1255 vijay Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:33:34 +0000 http://www.lunaticleft.com/2007/04/18/the-beginning-of-the-end/#comment-1255 The Times article is pretty interesting. Marty Lederman of Balkanization is quoted saying the Kennedy opinion was basically an attack on Ginsburg's entire life work (Ginsburg was an ACLU lawyer who argued and won some of the most important women's rights cases in the 70s). Apparently, Ginsburg was visibly upset and angry when she read her dissent in the Court. Which was a very rare show of emotion from her. Perhaps the only good thing that could come from this is it will force Roberts to show his stripes. His goal was to increase the uniformity of the Court through narrow decisions and basically turn the court into a court of appeals as opposed to a supreme arbiter of the law. Of course, this opinion has shattered any possibility of unanimity. Like Bush v. Gore, I don't think the wounds will heal fast. And we might see a more polarized and political court in the near future. Roberts could respond to this by realizing he overstepped his bounds. Or he could say fuck it, and go all out Scalia/Thomas style and destroy every existing liberal precedent out there. The Times article is pretty interesting. Marty Lederman of Balkanization is quoted saying the Kennedy opinion was basically an attack on Ginsburg’s entire life work (Ginsburg was an ACLU lawyer who argued and won some of the most important women’s rights cases in the 70s). Apparently, Ginsburg was visibly upset and angry when she read her dissent in the Court. Which was a very rare show of emotion from her.

Perhaps the only good thing that could come from this is it will force Roberts to show his stripes. His goal was to increase the uniformity of the Court through narrow decisions and basically turn the court into a court of appeals as opposed to a supreme arbiter of the law. Of course, this opinion has shattered any possibility of unanimity. Like Bush v. Gore, I don’t think the wounds will heal fast. And we might see a more polarized and political court in the near future. Roberts could respond to this by realizing he overstepped his bounds. Or he could say fuck it, and go all out Scalia/Thomas style and destroy every existing liberal precedent out there.

]]> By: Stephen http://www.lunaticleft.com/2007/04/18/the-beginning-of-the-end/#comment-1254 Stephen Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:05:48 +0000 http://www.lunaticleft.com/2007/04/18/the-beginning-of-the-end/#comment-1254 Yeah this one is unbelievable. When they say "activist judges" they mean judges that think women should have the same rights as anyone else. Yeah this one is unbelievable. When they say “activist judges” they mean judges that think women should have the same rights as anyone else.

]]> By: eli http://www.lunaticleft.com/2007/04/18/the-beginning-of-the-end/#comment-1253 eli Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:30:39 +0000 http://www.lunaticleft.com/2007/04/18/the-beginning-of-the-end/#comment-1253 Holy shit, did the Supreme Court just declare war on women's bodies? (from Ginsburg's dissenting opinion): "Today's decision is alarming. It refuses to take Casey and Stenberg seriously. It tolerates, indeed applauds, federal intervention to ban nationwide a procedure found necessary and proper in certain cases by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). It blurs the line, firmly drawn in Casey, between previability and postviability abortions. And, for the first time since Roe, the Court blesses a prohibition with no exception safeguarding a woman's health." They have gone too far. They have disrespected the authority of the medical profession, of their own legal profession, and of women's rights to protect their bodies. <a href="https://secure.ga0.org/02/fab_loss_home/" rel="nofollow">Donate to Planned Parenthood/</a> to help them mobilize against "the Supreme Court's reckless decision to uphold the federal abortion ban — a ban that tells women that politicians, not doctors, will make their health care decisions for them." Holy shit, did the Supreme Court just declare war on women’s bodies?

(from Ginsburg’s dissenting opinion):
“Today’s decision is alarming. It refuses to take Casey
and Stenberg seriously. It tolerates, indeed applauds,
federal intervention to ban nationwide a procedure found
necessary and proper in certain cases by the American
College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). It
blurs the line, firmly drawn in Casey, between previability
and postviability abortions. And, for the first time since
Roe, the Court blesses a prohibition with no exception
safeguarding a woman’s health.”

They have gone too far. They have disrespected the authority of the medical profession, of their own legal profession, and of women’s rights to protect their bodies.

Donate to Planned Parenthood/ to help them mobilize against “the Supreme Court’s reckless decision to uphold the federal abortion ban — a ban that tells women that politicians, not doctors, will make their health care decisions for them.”

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