Word: court
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...Miller, an ACLU director who is coordinating the settlement, concedes that compromise might be the only realistic alternative for pro-choice groups. "The very fact that the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case means you have a chance of losing," he is reported as saying. "And you also lose control. You don't know where the Court is going to go with this...
...both sides are willing to compromise says something about the issue of abortion. Attorney General Neil Hartigan, a democratic candidate for governor who has defended the clinic regulations, has been pressed by pro-choice groups to drop the case. It takes no political whiz to realize that if the Court used the Illinois case to legalize broad restrictions on access to abortion, Hartigan's hopes within the Democratic party are as good as over...
THERE are, of course, serious problems with out-of-court settlements on constitutional cases. First, ad hoc settlements cannot guarantee a national solution to a problem. It may solve Illinois' abortion woes, or Michigan's gender discrimination case, but there will not be a national standard to protect such rights...
UNITED States legal history is filled with cases in which the Court has guaranteed and expanded our rights to free association, free speech and privacy against those who would deny them. It is phenomenal that civil libertarians are now trying to avoid the Court at any cost...
...since the only lasting solutions--constitutional amendments or a more progressive Court--are not likely to happen in the near future, liberals will have to neutralize the Court's power. The next best alternative is to boycott the courts...