Published Date: May 9, 2022 | Topics: Civil Rights and Liberties, Constitutional Issues
Due to a leak in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case challenging Mississippi’s prohibition of elective abortions after 15 weeks’ gestation, we now know that the Supreme Court stands poised to overturn Roe v. Wade and its follow-up case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey. But Chief Justice Roberts has reportedly not joined the opinion, and some speculate that he might try […]
Published Date: May 3, 2022 | Topics: Civil Rights and Liberties, Constitutional Issues
By Robert. P George On January 22, 1973, I was a high school student working a pro-life information table at the West Virginia University student center when we heard about the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade. I recall the horror of learning that the Court had crushed the basic rights of an entire class […]
Published Date: November 11, 2021 | Topics: Constitutional Issues, Politics and Current Affairs
By Matthew J. Franck & Robert P. George November 11, 2021 10:51 AM The justices’ duty is clear In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the state of Mississippi has directly confronted the Supreme Court with an argument that, believe it or not, no state has pressed since Pennsylvania did so 29 years ago in […]
Published Date: October 4, 2021 | Topics: Civil Rights and Liberties, Politics and Current Affairs
How to defend yourself in a free-speech crisis, whatever your politics. Chronicle of Higher Education Robert P. George, Donald A. Downs, and Keith E. Whittington October 4, 2021 Calls to take disciplinary action against — and even fire — professors for saying controversial things have become disconcertingly common. Students, administrators, and sometimes even faculty colleagues […]
Published Date: September 14, 2021 | Topics: Civil Rights and Liberties
Newsweek September 14, 2021 In a striking new portrait of the great anti-slavery campaigner and former slave Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist stares ahead defiantly, sure of himself and his cause. The portrait is being unveiled today by the Union League Legacy Foundation, a charity that supports the values of the Union League of Philadelphia—a club […]
Published Date: September 10, 2021 | Topics: Civil Rights and Liberties, Constitutional Issues, Politics and Current Affairs
By Robert P. George Let me offer a prediction, free of any face-saving hedge: Next year, the Supreme Court will hold that there is no constitutional right to elective abortions. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case pending before the court, it will return the issue to the states for the first time in […]
Published Date: August 3, 2021 | Topics: Constitutional Issues, Politics and Current Affairs
[N.B. This article was co-authored by Robert P. George and Ryan T. Anderson.] Last month, Mississippi presented a brief to the Supreme Court arguing that our national charter, the Constitution of the United States, does not confer a right to abortion. This is irrefutably true. No such right can be found in the text of the Constitution, or […]
Published Date: July 30, 2021 | Topics: Civil Rights and Liberties, Constitutional Issues
By Ryan T. Anderson & Robert P. George July 30, 2021 2:09 PM The Supreme Court of the United States has a final chance to deliver justice for Barronelle Stutzman. Let us explain. On July 2, the Supreme Court of the United States formally declined to review Arlene’s Flowers, Inc. v. Washington — the case […]
Published Date: July 29, 2021 | Topics: Constitutional Issues
By Robert George Prof. John Finnis of Oxford University and the University of Notre Dame and I today filed an amicus curiae brief in the Dobbs case presenting historical evidence to the Supreme Court that unborn children were understood to be persons by the framers and ratifiers of the 14th Amendment. https://supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-1392/185196/20210729093557582_210169a%20Amicus%20Brief%20for%20efiling%207%2029%2021.pdf… If we […]