There is a huge difference between a "Conservative" Justice and a "Constructionist". The Conservative Justices that so many people here seem to want are Justices who want an all-powerful Judiciary, just like the Liberals want. Only they want to ban abortion.
Constructionist Justices want the Fed'l Gov't to be limited to the powers that our Constitution gave it (or at least as close as we can get from the hugely expanded role we have let them take).
GWB promised us Constructionist Justices. So carping about the fact that his picks don't have an abortion ban as their first priority is useless. He never said he'd appoint anyone like that - in fact, he went out of his way to say he wouldn't.
His picks will be Constructionist, not big gov't Conservative.
Exactly right.
No one is going to go that far. Just overturn Roe and send it back to the states. Sure someone could make the arguement that fetuses are protected under the 14th ammendment and entitled to equal protection under law but I don't see it happening. I see that argument going down 9-0