Some Constitutional Takeaways from the 2024 Presidential Election
- November 30, 2024
As Justice Samuel Alito pointed out in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health (pdf)—and as the late, great Justice Antonin Scalia said repeatedly—the Fifth and 14th Amendment Due Process Clauses really have nothing to do with abortion.
READ MOREThe court’s decisions upholding state vax mandates gave us a hint that it was about to overturn Roe.
READ MOREFor the pure political operative, the truth of a statement or its value as public policy is entirely irrelevant. For the pure political operative, issues are just weapons.
READ MOREOverruling Roe would have no effect on any of these other cases.
READ MOREA likely motive is to recreate what happened in Montana in 1972: to expose a potential swing justice to political pressure.
READ MOREThe Supreme Court finally declined to privilege a pro-abortion litigant. Instead, it applied the sort of common-sense standard it would apply to any other legal dispute.
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