Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks out with eye towards future of Roe v. Wade

[babylonsister]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks out with eye towards future of Roe v. Wade
By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer
Updated 4:05 AM ET, Wed May 29, 2019


Washington (CNN)The 86-year-old Supreme Court justice who this year became a three-time cancer survivor will be heard.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned on Tuesday about a threat to abortion rights and demonstrated that she is not going quietly on any abortion-related compromise. Ginsburg, in fact, has shown in recent weeks that she is not going quietly on much.

In addition to her partial dissent in the Indiana abortion dispute, Ginsburg on Tuesday wrote separately -- again, alone -- to protest a majority decision that she asserted uses a "thin case to state a rule that will leave press members and others exercising First Amendment rights with little protection against police suppression of their speech."

Just a few weeks earlier, Ginsburg signed on with fellow liberals to a dissenting opinion in an arbitration case but then separately took up her pen "to emphasize once again how treacherously the Court has strayed from the principle that 'arbitration is a matter of consent, not coercion.'"

As the nine justices now enter the final weeks of their annual term with the newly solidified 5-4 conservative majority, Ginsburg appears ready to take her shots, even if it means breaking with fellow liberals and writing alone.

In the abortion case, as she traded taunts with conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, she also revealed impatience for his many references to the "mother" who would choose to end a pregnancy.

Wrote Ginsburg, a prominent woman's rights lawyer before becoming a judge, "A woman who exercises her constitutionally protected right to terminate a pregnancy is not a 'mother.'"

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[Shoonra]

1. Not "mother" but "abortee"

Checking court decisions on LEXIS, I found 68 court decisions that clearly used the word 'abortee' to designate the woman who submitted to pregnancy termination.

[BlueWI]

2. You go, RBG!

More of us need to go about our work with that fierce commitment to principle you have. It's missing too often from our side if the political fence.

[Honeycombe8]

3. Well, it's a Republican S.Ct., now.

So it doesn't much matter how strongly the minority feels. We pretty much know how the left-leaning Justices will rule. Whether they feels strongly or weakly about their position doesn't matter much, now. There's no independent fair-minded Justice to convince to decide how they decide, any longer.

I love RBG, but I wish she had resigned during the Obama administration. The S.Ct. makeup would be very different today. She said she didn't want to resign because she was afraid that Obama would not be able to pick and get confirmed someone as liberal as she is. That may be true. So we got Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, instead.

[bitterross]

5. Your argument makes no sense

We would have Gorsuch and Kavanaugh regardless of whether or not she retired during Obama's term.

Even if she had retired during the first two years when Dems held the Senate and had been replaced by a liberal we would still have Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. Her actions on the matter made ZERO difference.

[Honeycombe8]

6. That's true. But she'll be replaced by a RW Justice.

It's likely she won't be able to make it through the election. If we don't win, the Repubs for sure will have the opportunity to replace her.

If that happens, the Court's hard RW will have a lock on the S.Ct. for the rest of my life.

[bitterross]

7. You know she won't make it how? /nt

[Honeycombe8]

8. Please re-read my post. Do I say I "know"? nt

[pstokely]

10. she should resign if she's still on the bench the next time Dems have the presidency and senate

could she have resigned in 2009 and gotten someone at least a liberal as her then?

[Honeycombe8]

11. She could have resigned in any year during Obama's administration.

She has stated that she didn't because she didn't think a nominee as liberal as she is could be confirmed (Republican obstruction Senate).

It doesn't much matter now, unless she doesn't make it to 2020. Which is possible.

[Farmer-Rick]

4. It gets my goat to hear Clarence Thomas who should have been impeached for bribes

vote on the supremes especially about women's issues. Now we have another woman abuser, Brett, who gets to vote on what women can and can not do with their own bodies. It is just irrational.

[JudyM]

9. Irrational sounds too subdued. It's an abomination.