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...What is not in dispute is that since he became leader of the Australian Labor Party on Dec. 4, Rudd has set the temper of national politics. In the published opinion polls, the 49-year-old Queenslander has hurtled past Howard early in an election year; Labor leads the Coalition by an improbable 59% to 41%, on a two-party basis, according to the latest Newspoll. On the poll's question of who is better to lead the country, Rudd is ahead of Howard 48% to 36%. Rudd's job description, as he told reporters in Sydney before embarking...
...John Howard's Australia, it's not supposed to be like that," Rudd argued. "The white picket fence and all it stands for is supposed to be enhanced, not undermined, by Hayek's economic revolution." A few weeks later, Rudd was Labor leader. The lines tested on elite opinion ("a bridge too far," "reclaim the center ground") were now fed into a media machine that couldn't get enough of this smiling new man promising a new leadership style and fresh everything-ideas, vision, energy...
...said, nor even a future one like Mother Teresa. Over the coming months, his unabridged story of Australia's future will be absorbed and scrutinized. So far, Rudd is treating the rave reviews he's got for Doing a Kevin with cold water and caution. The nation's opinion polls, he says, show a mood for political change. Voters will take time to watch, listen to his words, make what they will of that smile, and step back 50 paces. Kevin Rudd is on the road...
...more practical help to pro-choice advocates may be the majority opinion's suggestion that there's another way to challenge the ban: in a case where a specific woman would probably get sick if she didn't undergo an intact D&E. In this so-called "as applied" challenge, the court could see when the procedure was necessary to protect a woman's health and rule the law unconstitutional in those situations. (As the dissent points out, there may be logistical problems with how this would work in practice). It wouldn't be a total victory for abortion rights...
...second way to attack the law happens to emerge from Thomas' concurring opinion, which also mentions the issue of "whether the Act constitutes a permissible exercise of Congress' power under the Commerce Clause." In other words, even as he supports the intact D& E law, Thomas wonders whether Congress actually can pass such a national ban on an abortion procedure, or whether that's a power reserved exclusively to the states. The issue wasn't raised in this case, but the implication is that the court might strike down the intact law as beyond Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce...