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...court reversed Roe v. Wade or began striking down environmental laws like the Clean Air Act, national majorities might well become energized and alarmed. Although Justice Clarence Thomas has signaled his willingness to overturn Roe and gut the heart of the regulatory state, Kennedy is unlikely to provide a fifth vote for either. In the partial-birth case, he repeated his longstanding view that although late-term abortions could be restricted, the early-term abortions at the core of Roe had to be protected. And he made clear his support for environmental regulations when he joined the court's four...
...this sounds familiar. In June 1989, the Supreme Court issued three decisions that sharply limited the right to sue over employment discrimination. A day after the most prominent ruling, in Wards Cove v. Atonio, Senator Howard Metzenbaum (D., Ohio) declared that he would introduce a bill to overturn the decisions...
...Foreman and others are working on a bill to overturn the Ledbetter case, and Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, among others, have expressed interest. A Democratic Congress may well cooperate, though with a Republican again in the White House, final legislation before next year's elections isn't guaranteed. In any event, we probably won't see the kind of groundswell that shifted the law toward workers in 1991 because civil rights advocates aren't sure these Justices are a threat to workers' rights. Last June, for example, they made it harder for employers to retaliate against employees...
...What will come next? This may become a tale of two Harvards. One seeks to reproduce the status quo and preserve the old pecking order, while the other intends to overturn it, step by step, and replace it with something fairer...
...always lead to action. For all his public fire breathing, White House aides found him low-key and respectful in private; he did not march into the Oval Office with a to-do list. Falwell backed Presidents whose Supreme Court nominees chose to uphold Roe v. Wade rather than overturn it. Even as the bookstores filled with alarmed accounts of the rise of a new American Theocracy, what many conservative Christians saw was that the boardroom, not the sanctuary, remained the real Republican hallowed ground. When the Christians' interests clashed with the G.O.P. business wing, the money talked. Disgust with...