{"id":3047,"date":"2020-07-10T11:44:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T11:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3047"},"modified":"2020-07-10T11:44:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T11:44:07","slug":"why-conservative-chief-justice-roberts-just-struck-down-an-anti-abortion-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3047","title":{"rendered":"Why conservative Chief Justice Roberts just struck down an anti-abortion law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Ultimately, Roberts concludes that the principle of stare decisis \u2014 the doctrine that courts should generally be bound by their prior decisions \u2014 compels him to strike down Louisiana\u2019s law. \u201cThe result in this case is controlled by our decision four years ago invalidating a nearly identical Texas law,\u201d Roberts concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a practical matter, that means the constitutional right to an abortion is likely to survive for at least another year or two. But Roberts also signals that he\u2019s open to a lawsuit challenging this right on other grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The takeaway from Roberts\u2019s opinion isn\u2019t that the right to an abortion is safe. It\u2019s that Roberts is reluctant to bend the Court\u2019s ordinary procedures to hand abortion opponents a victory in this particular case.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/6\/29\/21306895\/supreme-court-abortion-chief-justice-john-roberts-stephen-breyer-june-medical-russo\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/6\/29\/21306895\/supreme-court-abortion-chief-justice-john-roberts-stephen-breyer-june-medical-russo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ultimately, Roberts concludes that the principle of stare decisis \u2014 the doctrine that courts should generally be bound by their prior decisions \u2014 compels him to strike down Louisiana\u2019s law. \u201cThe result in this case is controlled by our decision four years ago invalidating a nearly identical Texas law,\u201d Roberts concludes.<\/p>\n<p>As a practical matter, that means the constitutional right to an abortion is likely to survive for at least another year or two. But Roberts also signals that he\u2019s open to a lawsuit challenging this right on other grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The takeaway from Roberts\u2019s opinion isn\u2019t that the right to an abortion is safe. It\u2019s that Roberts is reluctant to bend the Court\u2019s ordinary procedures to hand abortion opponents a victory in this particular case.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[521,528],"class_list":["post-3047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-abortion","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3048,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions\/3048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}