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...options are clear: Choose Texas Gov. George W. Bush, who will appoint justices who interpret the Constitution as it was intended, or choose Vice President Al Gore '69, who will nominate justices who feel free to legislate from the bench...

Author: By Heather A. Woodruff, | Title: Battling to Control the Court | 10/10/2000 | See Source »

Bush has the appropriate view that issues of legislation, including abortion, should be left to the state legislatures and Congress to decide. It is a violation of our founding fathers' intent to allow an appointed body to legislate. In accordance with this original ideal, Bush would appoint justices who would return power to the states, empowering the people and local governments to rule...

Author: By Heather A. Woodruff, | Title: Battling to Control the Court | 10/10/2000 | See Source »

Bush has been the fairest of the candidates in dealing with the issue of abortion, which has been a major focus of this campaign. He has explicitly contradicted the idea that he would only appoint justices who are pro-life. He has promised that he will not use the abortion stance as a litmus test in appointing justices, while Gore has said that he will only appoint justices who support abortion. Gore voted pro-life through the 1980s, but since his vice presidential candidacy, he has refused the possibility of appointing a justice who maintains any beliefs but the most...

Author: By Heather A. Woodruff, | Title: Battling to Control the Court | 10/10/2000 | See Source »

...Nebraska legislature. The law, which Nebraska Attorney General Don Stenberg '74 sought to defend, attempted to ban the horrific procedure in which the baby's brain is extracted from its skull after the baby's limbs are torn from its body. Bush has promised that, if elected, he will appoint justices who would uphold a state's ability to pass such...

Author: By Heather A. Woodruff, | Title: Battling to Control the Court | 10/10/2000 | See Source »

...little wonder that Al Gore brought it up every chance he got, wouldn't let it go in his chat with Larry King last week, even as George W. Bush called the FDA ruling "wrong" and promised to build a "culture of life." The next President, Gore warns, could appoint as many as four Supreme Court Justices, enough to bury Roe v. Wade forever. Just in case any swing-voting women out there are taking abortion rights for granted, Gore noted that "I support a woman's right to choose; my opponent does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pill Arrives | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

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