Re: It's so much fun being a Democrat

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> Which actually means that the right exists only for as long as the
> current members of the Supreme Court says that it exists.

Correct. It's a bit tougher when the right seems to be explicit, as in the
Second Amendment. Fortunately the founders gave us plenty of waffle room on
that by inserting the militia clause.

> Ditto the principles for "Brown vs. Board of Education", which started
> the modern civil rights movement. A "strict Constructionist" Bench
> would permit going back to a racist and segregated Nation.

>> ... yet that right has been used so broadly as to protect a
>> woman's right to make her own medical decisions about her own body.
>
> And of parents' medical decisions for their children, including their
> currently-interpreted right to allow them to deny known life-saving
> medical treatments for their children.

Or husbands for their wives. Bush didn't seem too intent on protecting that
right either. Alito will do a lot of harm.


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