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...Reagan Administration lawyer, he ardently opposed judicial meddling in divisive issues he thought were best left to lawmakers. He even wrote that Congress had the power to strip the Supreme Court of its right to hear cases that involved social issues like school prayer and abortion. When Chief Justice Warren Burger in 1983 complained of the court's heavy workload, Roberts wrote a sizzling memo, observing, "So long as the court views itself as ultimately responsible for governing all aspects of our society, it will, understandably, be overworked...
...Among liberals, a major defense of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision legalizing abortion, is that if it is overturned the destabilizing effect will be great, denying women a legal right they have had for 32 years. But to many conservatives the matter has never been settled as the Warren Court's original recognition of a constitutional right to privacy (in a 1965 case involving the use of contraception) provided the basis for Roe. Strict constructionists like Antonin Scalia and Thomas think the court was just plucking rights out of thin air when it perceived the right to privacy nestled...
...There were to be no exceptions to the new rule, according to a Jan. 17, 1950, minute from the Adjutant General, Major General Warren Anderson, to Army Secretary Frank Sinclair. Even the cold-blooded bayoneting of Chinese men, women and children at Linden, in New Guinea, went unpunished...
...Queensland Labor Senator Jan McLucas says critics, among them government members Warren Entsch and agenda-setter Barnaby Joyce, want to strip gbrmpa - which declined to speak to TIME last week ahead of an announcement on the review - of its regulatory powers. Entsch denies wanting the authority disbanded, but says fishers were so misled during the rezoning that a major shake-up is needed "so individuals in the bureaucracy don't go down the same track again." Fishing Party Queensland chairman Kevin Collins hopes some green zones can be changed: "We're painted as rednecks who pillage the reef...
...says Wheaton's Moreau. "In Africa, programs appearing well connected can instantly attract a mass of people. But I wonder how many at Saddleback have the cross-cultural experience to convert that [enthusiasm] to feet on the ground." Says Furaha Mugisha, editor of the Rwandan newspaper Umuseso: "I think [Warren] has good intentions. Some people may benefit. But he is not different from other pastors we have seen. You won't hear much about his plan after the rally...