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...bait. Maybe, the Democrats hope, he's just enough of a perfectionist that he won't be satisfied with a bare majority for his confirmation-maybe his pride will kick in and he'll be tempted to try and get at least the 96 votes that Clinton-appointee Ruth Bader Ginsburg...
...know if he would be willing to throw it out or whether that would be too radical a reaction for his taste. Conservatives hope Roberts will line up with Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas in favor of overturning Roe, which would match the quartet--David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer and John Paul Stevens--that wants to maintain it, leaving Anthony Kennedy as the swing vote. While Roe might survive, such a lineup would probably ensure that the 2003 congressional ban on partial-birth abortion is upheld...
...already Harvard-packed Court a still-deeper shade of Crimson, becoming the seventh member of the Court to have attended Harvard. David H. Souter ’61 graduated from the College, while Justices Souter, Stephen G. Breyer, Antonin Scalia, and Anthony M. Kennedy hold HLS degrees. Ruth Bader Ginsburg attended HLS for two years, and Justice Rehnquist holds an M.A. in government from the University...
Roberts would become the seventh member of the Court to attend Harvard. David H. Souter ’61 graduated from the College, while Souter, Stephen G. Breyer, Antonin Scalia, and Anthony M. Kennedy hold HLS degrees. Ruth Bader Ginsburg attended HLS for two years, while Chief Justice Rehnquist holds an M.A. from Harvard in Government...
...restrictions have steadily chipped away at a woman's right to abortion. With Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement, it would probably take only the departure of one of the court's four remaining moderate-to-liberal members--most likely John Paul Stevens, 85, or Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 72--to overturn Roe v. Wade, which established abortion rights nationwide, or the court's more recent precedent, 1992's Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The more pressing matter of late-term-abortion bans is sure to come before the court soon. In 2000 the court ruled 5-4 that...