Published Date: July 1, 2021 | Topics: Civil Rights and Liberties, Constitutional Issues, Politics and Current Affairs
Lynn Fitch, the attorney general of Mississippi, faces the most consequential litigation decision of the last 50 years: whether to ask the Supreme Court to reverse Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that created a right to elective abortion, striking down abortion prohibitions that had long been in place in the states. She should do exactly that. Roe must […]
Published Date: September 18, 2005 | Topics: Civil Rights and Liberties, Constitutional Issues, Politics and Current Affairs
PRINCETON, N.J. – WHEN John Roberts, President Bush’s nominee for chief justice of the Supreme Court, told the Senate Judiciary Committee last week that “the right to privacy is protected under the Constitution in various ways,” some saw this as contradicting a memo he wrote while serving in the Reagan administration in which he referred […]