While a lot of people are focused on how the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn a century’s worth of corporate spending laws last Thursday will impact mid-term Congressional elections, Politico has an interesting article on what it says about the intentions of the court:
[Tom] Goldstein [a lawyer who regularly argues before the Supreme Court] said the campaign finance decision indicates that the court is increasingly willing to break with previous precedents when it comes to “the really central questions of constitutional law,” which include abortion, gay rights, the death penalty and church-state issues.
As Roe v. Wade marked its 37th anniversary last Friday, just a day following the conservative ruling, abortion rights activists are understandably concerned. After all, six years ago the court declared the 1907 law banning corporations from involvement in federal elections “firmly embedded in our law.”
“Yesterday’s Roberts court decision, which exhibited a stunning disregard for settled law of decades’ standing, is terrifying to those of us who care deeply about the constitutional protections the court put in place for women’s access to abortion,” said Nancy Northup of the Center for Reproductive Rights. “We are deeply concerned. … Yesterday’s decision shows the court will reach out to take an opportunity to wholesale reverse a precedent the hard right has never liked.”
Hey, ladies, it’s about time to find out just how “firmly embedded” our right to choose is.
Actually, Christampa, Allegedly and his multiple accounts (and multiple personalities) stands as an indicator of the latitude offered by SLOG regarding your freedom of speech. As long as your content is as pertinent as his or better, you’re within the threshold of comment policy. His presence reveals the (low, low) bar.
It’s much like the Hustler Magazine standard for the First Amendment in the US.
mitten, I’ve long asserted that ectogenesis solves the sovereignty problem, though I’ve also noticed that neither side of the abortion debate takes it very seriously. It would be a natural direction for the anti-abortion sector, to circumvent Roe by developing medical technology to move the ectogenic viability marker (that designates a late-term abortion) towards conception. Despite the fact that we’ve already vat-grown livestock animals from conception to birth, there’s been no investment in the technology thanks to political impetus.