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Linda Greenhouse
Born
in New York City, The United States
January 09, 1947
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The Next Abortion Case Is Here
An appeal in Oklahoma has drawn little attention, but at issue is the Supreme Court’s own unstable abortion doctrine.
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“decision to overrule Roe’s essential holding under the existing circumstances would address error, if error there was, at the cost of both profound and unnecessary damage to the Court’s legitimacy, and to the Nation’s commitment to the rule of law. It is therefore imperative to adhere to the essence of Roe’s original decision, and we do so today.”
― The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction
― The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction
“This was the inauspicious background for the nomination by John Adams of John Marshall, his secretary of state, to be the nation’s fourth chief justice. Marshall, a Virginian and combat veteran of the Revolutionary War, was forty-five years old, until this day the youngest person ever to assume the office”
― The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction
― The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction
“This issue was joined in a dispute over protection for the free exercise of religion that first divided the justices and then became the source of conflict between the Court and Congress. In a 1990 decision, the Court had withheld protection from individuals who claimed that their religious beliefs required an exemption from a generally applicable law. In that case, Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith, the Court ruled that American Indians who used the hallucinogenic drug peyote in religious rituals were not constitutionally entitled to unemployment benefits when they were fired for violating their employer’s rule against drug use.”
― The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction
― The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction
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