Tag Archives: supreme court

wickard v. filburn

Posted on August 28, 2010 by bkingr

If I ever have the chance to get asked in any context what Supreme Court case was wrongly decided, my first response will be Griswold v. Connecticut. Millions of babies have paid the ultimate price for married couples in Connecticut … Continue reading →

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some questions for "a Latina Judge"

Posted on May 28, 2009 by bkingr

Judge Sonia Motomayor, Barack Obama’s choice for the Supreme Court, is really an amazing piece of work. Matthew Franck has more from the speech she gave in which she declared that a wise latina will generally make better judicial decisions … Continue reading →

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Roe v. Wade @36 part 5

Posted on January 22, 2009 by bkingr

John Piper quoting Abraham Lincoln. On January 12, 2009 Samantha Heiges, age 23, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for drowning her newborn in Burnsville, Minnesota. If she had arranged for a doctor to kill the child a few … Continue reading →

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Roe v. Wade @36 part 4 "making it unthinkable"

Posted on January 22, 2009 by bkingr

Challies has a guest post from John Ensor today. Well worth reading the whole thing. ….I acknowledge the resistance, even offense, taken by many by asserting that abortion is the moral issue of our day. I am familiar with the … Continue reading →

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Roe v. Wade @36 part 3

Posted on January 22, 2009 by bkingr

Yuval Levin points to a speech by Professor Robbert P. George on the occasion of this anniversary. Go read it. In the name of a generalized “right to privacy” allegedly implicit in the Due Process Clause of the Constitution’s Fourteenth … Continue reading →

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Roe v. Wade @36 part 2

Posted on January 22, 2009 by bkingr

further to Ed Whelan’s point below regarding the effect of Roe v. Wade in bypassing democratic processes, here is Father Neuhaus’ article regarding this awful anniversary. These are the issues addressed in a remarkable new book out this month from … Continue reading →

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Roe v. Wade @36

Posted on January 22, 2009 by bkingr

the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade was handed down 36 years ago today. Ed Whelan quotes his congressional testimony from 2005 to commemorate the occasion. Roe v. Wade marks the second time in American history that the Supreme … Continue reading →

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