"Mike Rounds is a solid guy. A challenge to Roe v Wade must be properly timed and executed to succeed. It's a good idea to take our time and make sure we don't screw it up."
Absolutely. And it would help anyone if the law has some sort of technical defect that would get it overturned on other grounds.
While I think Rounds should sign the bill, I'm really of two minds concerning the timing of the law. If Stevens is still on the Court when the law's appeal gets to the Supreme Court (which will not take all that long, since it will be immediately declared unconstitutional by a district judge, soon thereafter by a three-judge panel, immediately thereafter by the Court of Appeals sitting en banc, and then the Supreme Court would grant cert and schedule oral arguments, which would be held not much more than a year after the law is passed), the law will be struck down 5-4, and it may make it more difficult to get a conservative to replace Stevens when he retires.
But God willing, Stevens will retire within the next year and Roe v. Wade will finally be overturned. That would have the additional effect of making Mike Rounds a conservative hero and making him the favorite against Democrat Senator Tim Johnson in 2008.
"Mike Rounds is a solid guy. A challenge to Roe v Wade must be properly timed and executed to succeed. It's a good idea to take our time and make sure we don't screw it up."
Yes. That creepy ACLU group that got this horrendous thing going in the first place, must be properly obliterated, otherwise they'll come back to haunt us.