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...issue of abortion, Bush has promised that he will work to reverse the Supreme Court's decision to overturn a partial-birth abortion law passed by the Nebraska legislature. The law, which Nebraska Attorney General Don Stenberg '74 sought to defend, attempted to ban the horrific procedure in which the baby's brain is extracted from its skull after the baby's limbs are torn from its body. Bush has promised that, if elected, he will appoint justices who would uphold a state's ability to pass such...
...recent FDA approval of the RU-486 pill made the thorny issue of abortion a talking point at the debate as well. While Bush, who opposes abortion rights, said he would not try to overturn the approval if he was president, he said he was against a culture that accepts more abortions and restated his opposition to partial-birth abortion...
...middle of an exchange about abortion, the Supreme Court and how to read the constitution, Gore says that Bush uses "code words" like "strict contructionist" to mean that he will try to overturn Roe v. Wade with his judicial appointments. Bush has already said he does not have a litmus test for appointments...
...fraternity vote too." Berman lost that race, but he has used his big-tent style to become a major political operator as head of the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Washington-based advocacy group. As a proponent of free speech and privacy on the Net, Berman helped overturn the Communications Decency Act of 1996, Congress's attempt to outlaw pornography on the Internet. Now Berman and his nonprofit center are fighting for legislation to protect consumer privacy on the Internet. The very corporations he often opposes, including America Online and Microsoft, finance his $1.25 million annual crusade. Says Berman...
...meantime, Judge Robert Kaye will issue his final judgment on the jury's verdict. He will probably lower the penalty in order to stay within a Florida law that prevents juries from bankrupting defendant companies. The tobacco companies will ask him to overturn the verdict. Most likely he won't. Off to the appellate court, where the defendants will ask that the class be decertified, as other tobacco class actions have been before it. The case will be heard in Florida's Third District Court of Appeals and, from there, the state supreme court. Both have green-lighted parts...