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Catholics dominate Supreme Court...abortion soon to be illegal

(Court Watch, 2 October 2006)
The Justices will tackle between now and June many of the major hot-button themes that keep Americans talking at the water cooler: cases involving abortion rights, the environment, sentencing rules, and affirmative action. And they will do so while two of them still are wet behind the ears, relatively speaking, in the world of high justice. . . . The cases that no doubt will get the most media coverage will be the two joined abortion rights cases, scheduled for oral argument next month, involving Congress' latest effort to restrict the late-term abortion procedure that its opponents call "partial-birth" abortion. The Court effectively avoided a substantive abortion ruling last term—this term it won't be able to. . . . You want to read about the late-term abortion cases. Given the court's past record, those cases, Gonzales v. Carhart, and Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood, essentially come down to Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and Samuel A. Alito, Jr. . . . [COMMENT by Lorenzo: Either Kennedy and Alito follow thier professed faith and outlaw abortion or they are exposed for the hypocrites this sad group of Fascists really are at heart . . . IMHO.] . . . No one will be surprised if Justice Alito casts a vote in favor of the federal law that outlaws late-term abortions even in cases in which the mother's health is at stake. That "health" exception was ratified in 2000 by the Supreme Court, with Justice O'Connor casting the fifth and deciding vote. She's gone. The big question is whether Justice Anthony Kennedy will take her place. . . .

Justice Kennedy voted for the last Congressional effort to restrict this type of abortion and if he does it again the math adds up to a 5-4 victory for anti-abortion proponents. But he may decide that there is more value and honor in upholding the Court's precedent from that 2000 decision than there is in endorsing Congress' stubborn brand of fact-finding about abortion procedures that lead the legislature to find that the aforementioned "health exception" was not medically necessary. . . . I saved the best for last. The court will enter the debate over global warming via a case that has enormous ramifications not just for us but also for our grandchildren and beyond. It's not just the Bush Administration's environmental policies that will be tested via Massachusetts v. EPA, it's the White House's approach to science, generally, that will come under scrutiny. . . . The Administration, remember, still is reluctant to accept the idea that there is a scientific consensus that we are causing global warming by the emissions we generate—and that we had better do something about it before it is too late.

posted by LoZo 12:12 PM