Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Scalito
ACSBlog profiles the new Supreme Court nominee here. People For the American Way summarizes here.

A highlight:
Judge Alito was the lone dissenter in the Third Ciruit's decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which struck down a Pennsylanvia statute that placed unconstitutional burdens such as mandatory husband notifications on women seeking to terminate pregnancies. The Supreme Court upheld the Third Circuit majority and rejected Alito's reasoning that the law promoted necessary discussions of "economic constraints, future plans, or the husbands' previously expressed opposition" in a manner inoffensive to a woman's right to self-determination.

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