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

JonathanTurley

The oral argument is scheduled for December 1st, the same week that the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear an expedited appeal over the even more stringent Texas abortion law. 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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Court on a Hot Tin Roof: Airing Out “the Stench” from the Oral Argument Over Abortion

JonathanTurley

Justices Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer insisted that overturning Roe in whole or in part would bring ruin upon the court by abandoning the principle of stare decisis , or the respect for precedent. Texas , which overturned prior precedent allowing the criminalization of homosexual relations. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)