Posted on 02/07/2019 7:00:05 PM PST by massmike
The Supreme Court is stopping Louisiana from enforcing new regulations on abortion clinics in a test of the conservative court’s views on abortion rights.
The justices say by a 5-4 vote that they will not allow the state to put into effect a law that requires abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.
Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s four liberals in putting a hold on the law, pending a full review of the case.
The four more conservative justices, including Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, would have allowed it to take effect. Kavanaugh wrote a dissent explaining his vote.
The law is very similar to a Texas measure the justices struck down three years ago. Roberts dissented in that case.
In fact they uploaded the same control program the morning of his swearing in. He was told, Don’t be upset, John, Everybody here gets one...
People need to take a step back and look at this objectively.
1. We now know how Kav and Gorsuch are looking at abortion rights restrictions. This is big.
2. While Roberts is permitting a review of the La. law before ruling on the merits, it certainly invites other states to start passing incremental rollbacks of Roe and Casey. Let’s see how the Supremes look at those and whether review is permitted.
3. Roe, itself, is literally on life support.
Don’t forget Trump grabbed a kitty once, therefore moral, decent, society must be burned to the ground...
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“In a government of laws, the existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy .” Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928)
[Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s four liberals]
I’m shocked! Shocked I tell ya!!
Roberts is compromised, owned and evil.
It’s really imperative Ginsburg gets off the court one way or another this year. She needs to be replaced by someone to render Roberts irrelevant, otherwise he’s going to keep siding with the court’s liberals on abortion, guns, immigration, etc. because meanie Trump hurt his feelings.
[ George W. Bush is second only to Obama as the most destructive President of modern times. ]
Well, fortunately for us, most of the 22 trillion in debt didn’t come from them and put us on an unrecoverable track.
Only about 15-16 trillion, is it, under Barack and his new best buddy W?
“We now know how Kav and Gorsuch are looking at abortion rights restrictions.”
I am not sure of Kav. If Roberts had voted yes I wonder if Kav would have voted no.
This is meant in the vein of "A Modest Proposal." The enormity of the vote is underscored by a bit of reflection on what it portends for those "caught in the middle" of such a decision. At least we need not fear the outcome. Women and men have fair warning and can take comfort in the fact that the nine months to bring this issue to a resolution is nicely concurrent with the human gestation period.
How does the cleverest idiot in the Nation's capital live with himself. It is beyond me. There is s simple dodge to the moral dilemma. Let the states decide. One did, and he could have let them have the final say on the matter qua Louisiana, at least. But, of course, if you don't nip this kind of thing in the bud everyone is going to clamor for a law like that and then where will we be. It will be utter chaos.
I wouldn’t call that contest actually.
Well, this “putting a hold” on delivering a final decision ma merely be a clever move to put the question again before the court when Ginzberg’s influence has become history and her replacement will have the opportunity to declare his/her state of mind when no longer bound by political ties. Maybe Trump will be the one to supply a conservative right-to-life enforcer.
I’m glad Bush won. He was better than Al Gore and John Kerry.
How could she even render an opinion since she has been in the hospital and is still at home?
I can’t stand W. Respected him after 9/11, until he committed to a protracted war in Iraq in 2003. Totally lost respect whenever he pals around with Barack Hussein and throws DJT under the bus.
His appointment of Roberts as Chief Justice reeks of a mediocre attempt at conservatism. Roberts is a watered down conservative who will let us down every time,
Or is Roberts still cowering from the Obama threats?
sad but Roberts is a known leftist after he became the final tyrant to save obamacare by rewriting the law from the bench and calling it a tax. thanks bush. this was your appointee.
Let’s see. Kav voted consistent with what just about every court observer believed were his views on abortion “rights” on his very first chance. So, Yes. I can see where you without any evidence would be unsure if Kav would have flipped if Roberts would have voted yes.
People can get mad at Roberts all they want, but there is no reason to believe that the vote was anything other than 4-4.
We do not need to prove a negative. We do not need to prove that RBG isn’t alive. They need to prove that she is. Her clerks can write her opinions, but they cannot lawfully cast a vote. None of her clerks were nominated by a president and confirmed by the Senate to be supreme court justices.
The state should obey a real 5-4 ruling. But in this case the state should defy the court on the pretext that there is no reason to believe that the vote was anything other than 4-4.
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