OPINION | Roe cannot be seriously defended. It was, as the dissenting justices wrote at the time, never more than an “an exercise of raw judicial power.” Prominent pro-abortion rights legal scholars – including the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg – have over the years admitted as much, calling Roe “difficult to justify,” a “barely coherent” “verbal smokescreen” that “is not constitutional law and gives almost no sense of an obligation to try to be.”
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OPINION | The Jan. 6 committee’s hearings over the past few weeks did crucial work illuminating the players and the plot behind efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. Now I hope lawmakers will take a close look at the technology platform that was at the center of events on Jan. 6: Facebook. |
