Word: opinionizing
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...Hispanic candidate who might be most attractive to Bush is one whom conservative activists are already signaling they will not accept. Attorney General Gonzales looks fishy to them on abortion because, while a judge on the Texas Supreme Court, he wrote an opinion that not only opened the way for a 17-year-old to have an abortion but also raised concerns generally about parental-notification laws. And he appears wobbly on affirmative action. Published accounts have suggested he toned down a Justice Department brief opposing racial preferences when the Bush Administration filed it in the landmark 2003 case involving...
...understand her careful navigation as an interpreter of the Constitution. In an important 1983 test of the limits of Roe v. Wade, for example, she voted to support an Ohio law requiring a 24-hour waiting period for women who want to have abortions. In her minority opinion, she pleased conservatives by writing that Roe as written was on shaky ground. But she didn't say it should be overturned. In a 1989 case she explicitly rejected an attempt to overturn Roe, but said restrictions on abortion were fine as long as they didn't place an undue burden...
Further suits will likely follow to clarify the ambiguities in the opinion, according to Palfrey...
...memoir at an opportune moment. It came on the eve of the Supreme Court’s stunning blow to the freedom of the press. And it arrives in stores as politicians who seem unconcerned with the First Amendment—namely Giuliani and McCain—dominate opinion polls...
...David H. Souter: Nominated by George Bush in 1990, Souter replaced William Brennan. In the decade since he joined the bench, Souter has emerged as the Court's most influential moderate, often working with Sandra Day O'Connor to establish a centrist opinion. Souter has a strong respect for precedent and tends to be cautious in his opinions. A quirky traditionalist, Souter has very few possessions and calls himself a Luddite. When asked in 1996 whether cameras would be allowed in the SCOTUS courtroom, he famously replied, "When they roll them over my dead body...