Opinion by Ruth Marcus: The question is not whether “Roe v. Wade” is overturned — but how
In June 2020, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., the least radical of the three, authored a concurringreaffirmed ‘the most central principle ofOn Wednesday, he didn’t sound nearly so certain that what he had termed “the most central principle” was all that important after all. Blackmun himself, in his private papers, had referred to the viability line as “dicta,” a legal observation not central to the holding, Roberts noted.
All of which pointed toward Roberts voting to uphold the 15-week law and to abandon the current rule that prevents states from blanket prohibitions on abortions at any point before viability. Roberts’s comments were the good news. Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh seemed to be setting the stage for going further. In the guise of asking questions, he laid down the marker that granting Mississippi’s request to overruleKavanaugh sought to position the court, in the event it takes that step, as merely saying that the Constitution is “neither pro-life nor pro-choice” but “scrupulously
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