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...emanating from the Constitution that activist judges have used to find heretofore unknown protections -- like the guarantee of privacy, which underlies Roe v. Wade's right to abortion. New Hampshire Governor Judd Gregg predicts that "Souter won't graft current ideas or social concerns onto constitutional law." In a dissent he wrote in 1986, Souter said "the court's interpretive task is to determine the meaning of . . . ((constitutional language)) as it was understood when the framers proposed it." A judge cannot be more strict constructionist than that. On the other hand, Roe v. Wade does constitute precedent, another principle...
...unexpected reversal came from two Reagan appointees, judges David Sentelle and Laurence Silberman. A strong dissent came from Judge Patricia Wald, a Carter appointee, who insisted, "North received a fair trial -- not a perfect one but a competently managed and a fair...
...Republicans running in prochoice districts, an anti-abortion position is like a political scarlet letter. The New York State Republican Committee has actually dropped the anti-abortion cause from its agenda, saving its local candidates from the embarassment of ambiguity and political dissent...
Timeless and all embracing as Shakespeare seems, he sometimes shows himself to be, unmistakably and unattractively, a man of his times. The Merchant of Venice is so bluntly anti-Semitic that most modern directors infuse their staging with irony, distorting the play into a covert dissent against bigotry. Just as problematic is The Taming of the Shrew, which treats women as economic or sexual prizes and delights in detailing how one husband breaks his wife's spirit through starvation, humiliation, irrationality and hints of violence. Most contemporary renditions warp the play into a feminist satire...
...toughest Vatican decree on dissent in modern times warns theologians to be scrupulously loyal -- or else. -- Reform Judaism votes to accept gay rabbis...