Word: overturning
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...hand and the cheers of opponents on the other, you could come away with the impression that the fate of Alito's nomination will determine whether abortion remains available in this country. That is not what is at stake. Alito's confirmation would not produce the votes sufficient to overturn the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing abortion rights throughout the country. And even if Roe is reversed in the future, states will be free to preserve abortion rights, and many almost surely will. Today the tussle is over not whether abortion will exist...
That memo is significant because Alito’s opponents have used it as evidence to suggest that the nominee would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade...
...namo Bay, Cuba, the right to contest their incarceration in federal court. But a bipartisan bill approved by Congress last month and now before the President will deny foreign terrorism suspects the right to challenge the conditions of their detention in federal court, which some experts say will effectively overturn the Supreme Court ruling...
...charges for more than three years as an enemy combatant. And his court--the Fourth Circuit, based in Richmond, Va.--has been the White House venue of choice for bringing cases because it considers that bench ideologically sympathetic. Undeterred, the Bush Administration last week asked the Supreme Court to overturn Luttig's ruling...
...June 2000 case, Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, could figure prominently in oral arguments this morning as the justices consider a high-profile dispute over campus military recruitment. A coalition of three-dozen law schools, the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), will ask the justices to overturn the so-called Solomon Amendment, a statute first passed by Congress in 1994 that allows the Pentagon to withhold federal funds from universities that limit recruiters’ access to students. Many law schools—including Harvard’s—want to place restrictions on recruiters...