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I see your back for a visit. A great day for libertarians and leftists who yearn for an overly strong central government ruled by an oligarchy of 9.

The only difference between the leftists and the libertarians is your goals diverge at certain points. Both would like to issue edicts from Washington so that the pissants can enjoy "freedom" your way.

Disgusting display of ideology over Constitution.

Kennedy's decision is a policy decision ungrounded in the Constitution, using the abominable Roe as precedent and contrary to his own opinion that Roe was unconstitutional.

Did the Constitution change in the past 17 years? Was it amended to include a "right to privacy"?

One can abhor peeking in windows, which of course seldom happens, and also abhor the edicts from Washington, libertarians and leftists.

While Kennedy cited Roe, what is so interesting about this decision, is that it backed away from the right to privacy concept. The rationale of this decision, along with Griswald and Roe in a repackaging effort, were wrapped in a yet even broader and more vague concept about the due process right to liberty where its exercise is fundamental to the person. No, I am not making this up.

So now, if the Court really wanted to get activist, with this vague, amorphous, and subjective tool, combined with equal protection sledge hammar (all laws by definition are unequal in protection because they make distinctions, and thus are fair game for bludgoning), well SCOTUS can simply pass any legislation it wants.

Lamar Alexander had this demogogic line (yes, I don't like Lamar), about cutting the pay of Congress, and sending them home. If SCOTUS really gets going, the pay should be cut to zero, and they should stay home forever, and sell off the Capitol Building. The legislative branch will have become as vestigal as an appendix.

In short John, you might not have liked the manufactured penumbra right of privacy, but it had the virtue of by its very nature, being somewhat limited in its application. The standard applied in this case is as limitless as the West Texas horizon. We have a brave new world out there.

And so it goes.