With the ascension of Clarence "hey baby" Thomas to his new role as Chief Justice, and with Yosemite Sam assuming Sandra Day O'Connor's seat, the Supreme Court has set off into new, if previously charted, directions.
At long last someone has finally driven a truck through the caverous holes in the reasoning of the Roe vs Wade decision. They drove through... well, almost. In actuality Thomas and his bretheren parked in one of the holes, set the brake, and walked WAY FAR OFF. Only then, from a safe distance and behind a protective structure, did one of the judges turn around and press the button for the "remote car lock." Um, did I mention it was a Ryder Truck?
Boom. There goes 30 years of case law, up in smoke by a 5-4 vote.
Good ridence Roe v Wade. But this court is just getting warmed up.
After a whole afternoon's heavy reading, the members of the new majority of the Thomas Court emerged to say that, dang, they couldn't find no mention of privacy in the Constitution nowhere. They read the whole constitution once, they read it twice. But on this issue the constitution could give no advice. Result? ----
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