Today in Supreme Court History: April 22, 1992

4/22/1992: Planned Parenthood v. Casey argued.

Comments

[DaivdBehar]

Know nothing, Ivy indoctrinated, Big government, rent seeking lawyer dipshits should not be making law for the nation.

Of course, undue burden applies only to left wing favored groups. The tremendously undue burden placed on other groups is never decided. Naturally, 30% of abortions are of black babies. So the Democrat Party has done it again. It has gone way beyond the wildest dreams of the most maniacal, genocidal KKK member and killed millions of black people.

[Nisiiko]

Yes, undue burdens on business owners and gun owners don't matter. It only matters if a woman has to go out of state to kill her baby or if a gay couple has to drive to the neighboring county to get "married."

[Krychek_2]

And yet, people who are overtly racist -- I'm talking about unashamed white supremacists like nisliko here -- mostly oppose abortion rights, even though abortions are disproportionately black. Any theory on why that is?

[Krychek_2]

I mean, if Roe v. Wade had been decided the other way, there would probably be an additional 30 million black voters on the rolls. I'd think racists would enthusiastically support abortion rights.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

Part of it may be gullibility-enabled superstition. Part of it may be misogyny. Some of it may be reflexive opposition to the preferences of reasoning, educated, accomplished, credential, mainstream "elites." Don't count out poor judgment and stupidty (inability to recognize the effect of one thing on another, for example). General disaffectedness and disdain for modernity also could be a factor. Tribalism -- the force that brings together racists, gun absolutists, virus-flouting yokels, anti-abortion absolutists, and others -- can't be dismissed.

An evaluation of simpletons can become quite complicated.

[Nisiiko]

I support mandatory abortion for women with IQs below 105.

[Frank Drackman]

I support mandatory abortion for anyone who bases abortion decisions on IQ Scores, instead of for (Male) Sex Selection like Society approves of.

[Dan Schiavetta]

Lots of pregnant pauses that day.

[Nisiiko]

And that decision is when Souter, Kennedy and O'Connor were exposed for the leftists they are. But it took another disastrous appointment in John Roberts for the Republicans to finally "get it."

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Basing your entire categorization of left vs right on abortion alone is idiotic. Words have generally accepted meanings, and to make up your own leaves you unable to communicate with anyone else.

If you have other reasons for calling those three lefties, you are in the same idiotic trap as those who call Trump far right, leaving no room for any way to differentiate huge swaths of political leanings.

If you are just exaggerating, you just look like one of the two above.

[Krychek_2]

I'm rapidly swinging over to the view that "left" "right" "conservative" "liberal" "socialist" "marxist" and various and sundry other emotionally laden labels are of little value any more because of the extensive misuse of them that has essentially rendered them meaningless. These days, there seems to be no objective definition for any of them; it's purely in the mind of the beholder.

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It has some use in US domestic two-party politics, where politicians can be compared relative to more of the same. But it's still too loose to have much meaning. I don't know that it works even that well in multi-party parliamentarian politics.

Me, all I really care about is statism vs individualism. The more they want to run my life, the more I detest them.

[apedad]

Yeah, like those darn anti-abortionists trying to tell women what they can - and can't - do with their bodies.

[Nisiiko]

They're not. They're telling them what they can do with the bodies of the babies inside them.

[Michael P]

The government tells us a lot about what we can and can't do with our bodies already, even if you take the "clump of parasitic cells" stance.

[Aemon McGarret]

Language in general is degrading badly because demand pressure is pulling apart common meaning & understanding. And the goodwill of simply trying to understand & be understood has gotten very thin on the ground.

[Krychek_2]

That too.

[Frank Drackman]

Check out the Nixon Whitehouse Tape of Milhouse and Haldeman discussing the Roe decision in real time, Tricky actually sounds pretty "Woke" about how there are conditions that might warrant abortion, Fetal Deformity, Rape, Inter-racial marriage....

Frank "No aborted baby ever called me Nigger" (and what's with N-words calling Non-N-words, the "N-word"?? Jeez, thats confusing even for a Bitter Turd like "The Reverend"

(you find an aborted baby using the "N-word", Reverend, post it)

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

Good work, Frank. Yours might have been the first vile racial slur published by the Volokh Conspiracy this month (Prof. Volokh seems to have become slightly less active in that respect lately) but you have ensured that this white, male, bigot-friendly blog maintains its better-than-monthly pace with respect to publication of vile racial slurs.

[Frank Drackman]

Wow, "Reverend" not even one of your Rapist-like wit rejoinders?? You probably didn't even get my Moe-Hammed Ali (I'm sorry, sure you know him better as "Cassius Clay") reference, so let me explain for the sake of the "Bitter Clingers"
Back when Barry Obama was still "Barry", there was a boxer named "Cassius Clay", after winning the Heavyweight Championship, Uncle Sam sent Cassius an engraved Invitation for a free Government Medical Exam, prerequisite for a Government paid trip to Southeast Asis.
It was then that Cassius made his famous remarks, about how no Vietcong ever called him the N-word.....

Frank "Been called N-word by actual N-words"

[not guilty]

It appears that Casey and Roe v. Wade are on the cusp of being overruled. For government to prohibt previability abortion is just as destructive of personal liberty as would be the government mandating abortion. (Think the People's Republic of China a few years back.)

[F.D. Wolf]

Despite all the superfluous histrionics and window dressing, the Senate's rejection of Robert Bork was about one thing: preserving Roe v. Wade Roe was only 14 years old in 1987, so it hadn't quite yet become part of our "sacred legal tradition". After Bork, Reagan announced he would nominate another of his D.C. Circuit appointees, Douglas Ginsburg, but that fell apart when it was revealed - HORROR OF HORRORS! - that Ginsburg had smoked marijuana as a college professor. (It was a different world then, fully five years before the election of Bill Clinton).

Strike two. So then Reagan went with Anthony Kennedy, a Ford appointee from the 9th Circuit. The Senate Democrats viewed the Kennedy nomination as a surrender by Reagan, which, in fact, it was. And Kennedy proved it Today in Supreme Court History: April 22, 1992.

Of course, today Roe faces its most serious challenge to date. Frankly, I never thought I'd see it. I don't know if this Court will pull that trigger, but if this Court doesn't overturn it, no Court ever will.