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SearchCOMMENTARY: In the 18 months since Roe v. Wade was overruled, supreme courts in Montana, North Dakota and South Carolina (at first) have overturned abortion bans in favor of women’s privacy and autonomy. Will the high courts in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Wyoming follow suit?
COMMENTARY: In ‘Mere Natural Law,’ the Catholic convert addresses what has touched off a roiling debate within the conservative legal movement.
COMMENTARY: Denouncing the Trump indictment as ‘politically motivated’ is unnecessary. The Trump indictment is a grave abuse of a prosecutor’s discretion. It should be denounced for that reason.
COMMENTARY: The Supreme Court’s June 24 decision strikes the necessary first blow on the march to equal justice for every human being.
COMMENTARY: If ‘Dobbs’ is decided following the ‘neutral principles’ of constitutional interpretation, it would not mean the end of abortion, or even the beginning of the end of it. ‘Dobbs’ would instead be the start of a whole new phase of the political struggle over abortion. Yet the Constitution requires more.
ANALYSIS: The present court’s majority should be emboldened to overrule ‘Roe’ by its candid recognition of the two truths of the matter.
The broad concern is that Bostock will be for the “transgender” cause what Roe meant for abortion and what Obergefell was for homosexuals: the landmark Supreme Court victory making a transformative agenda into national law. But it is not.
ANALYSIS: Notre Dame legal scholar Gerard V. Bradley highlights the fundamental legal errors that gave rise to the cardinal’s wrongful conviction.
COMMENTARY: Justice Mark Weinberg’s dissenting opinion should provide the basis for Australia’s High Court to finally correct this awful miscarriage of justice.
COMMENTARY: The report triggered an explosion of law enforcement activity, but failed to inspire a broader campaign to address a national epidemic of sexual abuse in public schools and other settings.
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