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To: MJY1288

"Roe-v-Wade is established law and it will not be re-argued."

It almost was overruled in 1992:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/04/scotus.blackmun.papers

As lawyers and court watchers have long suspected, the Supreme Court was ready to effectively overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion in 1992, but Justice Anthony M. Kennedy got cold feet, and the vote went the other way.

Internal notes in the papers of late Justice Harry A. Blackmun reveal the secretive dealings that led to the court's ruling in Planned Parenthood v. Casey that year.

Blackmun's extensive records from 24 years on the court were opened Thursday.

Details of the archives were first reported by National Public Radio, which got advance access.

Blackmun's notes show that Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist led a five-justice majority to overrule Roe. Four other justices voting with Rehnquist were Byron White, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Kennedy. Rehnquist himself was to write the majority opinion.


16 posted on 07/06/2005 9:30:59 PM PDT by Altair333 (Stop illegal immigration: George Allen in 2008)
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To: Altair333

IMHO, Established Law should only be overturned by the Amendment Process. This is how we reversed bad law in the past, and this is how our Founders set it up. To change it any other way would be Judicial Activism, no matter how we spin it.


18 posted on 07/06/2005 9:38:05 PM PDT by MJY1288 (Whenever a Liberal is Speaking on the Senate Floor, Al-Jazeera Breaks in and Covers it LIVE)
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