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usaf-vet

(6,092 posts)
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 10:41 AM Jun 2020

Move to General Discussion duplicate in LBN.

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by Mosby (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics, reasserting a commitment to abortion rights over fierce opposition from dissenting conservative justices in the first big abortion case of the Trump era.

Chief Justice John Roberts joined with his four more liberal colleagues in ruling that the law requiring doctors who perform abortions have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals violates the abortion right the court first announced in the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.

In two previous abortion cases, Roberts had favored restrictions.

The Louisiana law is virtually identical to one in Texas that the court struck down in 2016.

“The result in this case is controlled by our decision four years ago invalidating a nearly identical Texas law,” Roberts wrote, although he did not join the opinion written by Justice Stephen Breyer for the other liberals.

In dissent, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote, “Today a majority of the Court perpetuates its ill-founded abortion jurisprudence by enjoining a perfectly legitimate state law and doing so without jurisdiction.”

President Donald Trump’s two appointees, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, were in dissent, along with Justice Samuel Alito. The presence of the new justices is what fueled hopes among abortion opponents, and fears on the other side, that the Supreme Court would be more likely to uphold restrictions.

Read more: https://apnews.com/c9c6eee97277d6e8e71f568cde830e46

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Lonestarblue

(9,874 posts)
1. This will make conservative heads explode!
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 10:44 AM
Jun 2020

samsingh

(17,571 posts)
2. susan collins is a complete failure
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 10:45 AM
Jun 2020

Brett Michael Kavanaugh played her like a fiddle and voted against the abortion rule of law.

she must be very concerned.

We have to get her out of office.

Response to usaf-vet (Original post)

sl8

(13,584 posts)
5. You could move it to GD, but there are already 6 similar threads there. n/t
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 10:48 AM
Jun 2020

muriel_volestrangler

(101,146 posts)
6. There is no 'move' function, available either to hosts or members
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 10:54 AM
Jun 2020

You need to self-delete this yourself, and then create a new thread yourself in GD. Or someone can alert and get this locked.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,773 posts)
7. Prob best to self-delete, or persuade brooklynite to self-delete the earlier almost useless OP
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 10:56 AM
Jun 2020

... from the Supreme Court, which is a legitimate source and it is the real deal, but ...

... that post doesn't explain anything. Unless you know the case well, it's hard to know what the meaning is.

Mosby

(16,158 posts)
8. LOCKING
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 11:01 AM
Jun 2020

Dupe.

progree

(10,864 posts)
9. It doesn't look like it got locked - it still shows up in the Latest Breaking News section
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 02:22 PM
Jun 2020

of the homepage, I was able to reply to this, and so on. Thanks.

Mosby

(16,158 posts)
10. The op wants to self delete, so I unlocked it temporarily.
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 02:23 PM
Jun 2020
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