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2. While those are some good points...
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 09:02 PM
Jun 2020

...the fact that he was willing to let his respect for precedent (even if he personally thinks the case was wrongly-decided) overrule other arguments really leaves him no choice but to uphold Roe on the same principle, should right-to-lifers ever try to push a case to overturn it.

No one thinks that Roberts is a "pro-choice hero," or that he's suddenly had a personal change of heart on abortion. That isn't necessary from any judge or justice -- what is necessary is that they set aside their personal beliefs and stick to interpreting the law as written and as set by precedent. Most Republican nominees will just enshrine their personal agenda as law, no matter how it violates precedent. It seems Roberts isn't one of them, which also bodes well for same-sex marriage in the future (assuming Trump loses, and doesn't get the chance to appoint another ideologue, of course).

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