"Now everybody concedes that all this will take a few years."
If the Supreme Court liberals are smart, they will take this case on now, before Bush has another opportunity to change the Court.
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The Supreme Court can't just "take it on" until it works its way there through various other courts. The challenge for the pro-abortion people is that if they let this stand, all they've lost is South Dakota where I understand there is only one small killing center, but if they push it through the courts, they stand to lose a lot more. And the fact that they can't predict the composition of the Court by the time the case gets there makes it even more of a gamble.