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Roe Redux: Is The Viability Test Still Viable as a Constitutional Doctrine?

JonathanTurley

Despite annual columns questioning such apocalyptic predictions, which often seemed more political than legal, the granting of Dobbs led me to write my first “this could be it” column. Indeed, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a critic of Roe , seeing it as too sweeping in supplanting state laws.

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No, Justices Did Not Commit Perjury in Their Confirmation Hearings When Asked About Roe

JonathanTurley

No less a legal figure as Stephen Colbert declared “They knew, that if they were honest, they wouldn’t get the job. The first question would be the question that we’ve been discussing and that’s the issue of stare decisis. You begin with the touchstone of stare decisis and the preference for preserving precedent.

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“Badly Misses the Point”: Post Columnist Hits Roberts after his Defense of the Court’s Integrity

JonathanTurley

Now, Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus has criticized Chief Justice Roberts as missing the point in his defense of the Court. I wanted to briefly respond on why the column replicates the historical and legal flaws of the Harris comments. In her column, What Chief Justice Roberts Misses , Marcus writes that.