Thread: Ginsburg: Roe will hold

"We will never go back to the way it once was," the Supreme Court Justice says.




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Sure thing, Ruthie. Just don't die until Obama's gone, please.

Quite a horrific turnabout from earlier recognizing that Roe was a terrible decision, regardless of if you agree with the idea of federally-forced legality of abortion.

Hardly a turnaround. Ginsburg has always been a supporter of abortion rights, she just doesn't think the legal basis of Roe was as strong as it might have been. And she didn't speak to the basis of the opinion in her remarks. It is interesting that she's so certain of Roe's staying power. Perhaps she knows something about the thinking of the conservatives on the court that the rest of us do not. It is interesting that after 35+ years of wrangling over the issue, there's been very little movement on the legal basis of abortion.

Originally Posted by Macduff

It used to be that judges making up their minds on cases before they heard them was a bad thing.

That was way back before they started legislating from the bench.

Originally Posted by boontito

You are aware that Roe v. Wade has already been heard and ruled on, right?

You are aware that there are challenges being made even now right? Apparently Ginsburg has already ruled on those too.