David Garrow
David Garrow
David J. Garrowis an American historian and author of the book Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. He is also the author of Liberty and Sexuality, a history of the legal struggles over reproductive rights in the U.S. prior to the Roe v. Wade decision. Garrow writes frequently on the history of the United States Supreme Court and the history of the Civil Rights Movement,...
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The health exception is based on professional respect and regard for doctors. Health is anything a doctor says it is, and neither legislators nor judges should be redefining it. I don't think it can be abused.
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The overarching theme in the questionnaire, I think, is trying too hard to gin herself up, ... She makes it sound like the White House counsel's office is the solicitor general, which it's not. She's presenting it as an office with major constitutional responsibility.
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For 30 years, ever since John Paul Stevens, there has been an unbroken pattern of naming sitting appellate judges,
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The No. 1 thing is that this is the entire court - especially O'Connor - again trying to turn down the temperature on the issue and force both sides toward the middle. This is the court saying: We don't want to give either side all or nothing. We're going to force you to split the loaf.