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...Edwin Meese early this month, signaling the Justice Department's intention to take a more activist and aggressive posture toward the Supreme Court and its rulings. Last week Meese's agency took aim at a favorite target of President Reagan and many of his conservative supporters: the landmark 1973 Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court case, which struck down most legal restrictions on abortion. The Justice Department filed a 30-page amicus curiae brief asking the court to reverse its 7-to-2 decision. "The basis for Roe vs. Wade, " states the brief, "is so far flawed and is such...
Critics of the Administration questioned the timing of the action, pointing out that the composition of the court has not changed since 1983, when it handed down three decisions reaffirming Roe. The National Abortion Rights Action League called the filing of the brief "a blatantly political and unprincipled move...
...solution is to build a diverse party on divisive issues. Democrats should not have to sacrifice their core belief in abortion rights—much as Republicans, since 1976, have never nominated a presidential candidate who supports Roe v. Wade...
...enforce federal law in states that refused racial integration. But the courts soon wandered into unlegislated gray areas. They imposed forced busing to achieve school integration, allowed racial preferences in hiring and school admissions, extrapolated a constitutional right to privacy and declared abortion legal in the 1973 Roe v. Wade case (and more recently, on the state court level, allowed gay marriage). Many of these were worthy decisions, but they were never voted on. Over time, as the Democrats became the minority party, their efforts to hold on to this last area of solace became more desperate...
...widespread fear that the Dems lost the presidential race due to so-called Moral Values, the party has been backpedaling on its core stance faster than you can shout “get your laws off my body.” Rational Democrats are beginning to say that losing Roe v. Wade wouldn’t be such a big deal—after all, we’d still have abortion in Massachusetts...