Wow. Justice Rehnquist died this evening, the AP is reporting. That ought to make things interesting. Two Supreme Court vacancies to be filled by a President whose poll numbers are in the toilet while he’s presiding over the greatest natural disaster of the century. The Bible thumpers are going to howl for theocratic dominance of the court to overturn Roe v. Wade and possibly Griswold v. Connecticut (that’s the case that found the right to privacy, allowing married couples to use contraception. The right to privacy is the much maligned penumbral right that social conservatives scorn while ridiculing the legal rationale of Roe.)
Well, rest in peace, Justice Rehnquist.
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