Dartblog

On the thirty-fourth anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, Jack Balkin takes stock of the tenuous abortion right’s prospects in the future. In doing so, he seems to rely far too much on his own ideology—which coerces him to paint the entire situation with a brush so broad it’d make the Associated Press proud. He writes, for example, that “[t]he reason why Casey overruled Roe partially was fairly simple. The Republicans made five straight Supreme Court appointments after the Republican Party became the pro-life party in 1980,” almost as if none of these justices ever wrote an opinion but were simply partisan automatons. But it is a nice summary nonetheless.