Opinion: asymmetricinfo thinks the Supreme Court should have never intervened on abortion
Antiabortion demonstrators outside the Supreme Court building in Washington in January. By Megan McArdle Megan McArdle Columnist Bio Follow Columnist May 16 at 2:20 PM Supporters of abortion rights are fond of saying that Roe v. Wade is “settled law.” The phrase is supposed to convey a finality that borders on irrevocability. But, of course, what the Supreme Court gives, the Supreme Court can take away.
No legal case has done more than Roe to define how the left sees the Supreme Court: not as a somewhat boring final arbiter of words recorded in law books, but as the oracle that tells us what rights the Constitution ought to guarantee. Consequential cases such as Brown v. Board of Education and Miranda v. Arizona , concerning racial segregation and the rights of police suspects, respectively, dealt with matters that clearly involved the Constitution.
That view of constitutional interpretation works precisely as long as you happen to agree with the judicial interpreters. When the other side of the political spectrum gets wise and starts stocking the courts with judges who share their opinions — Catastrophe! Ruination! Citizens United!
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