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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

“A Waiting Period on Abortion: If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.” Yesterday in The Wall Street Journal, James Taranto had an op-ed (free access) that begins, “The astonishing thing about Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s opinion in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood–last week’s case involving New Hampshire’s Parental Notification Prior to Abortion Act–is that it was for a unanimous court.”

Posted at 6:45 AM by Howard Bashman



“Exclusive: Supreme Ethics Problem? What Was Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Doing on Day of Supreme Court Swearing-In?” As reported on last night’s broadcast of the ABC News program “Nightline,” “At the historic swearing-in of John Roberts as the 17th chief justice of the United States last September, every member of the Supreme Court, except Antonin Scalia, was in attendance. ABC News has learned that Scalia had instead was on the tennis court at one of the country’s top resorts, the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Bachelor Gulch, Colo., during a trip to a legal seminar sponsored by the Federalist Society.”

ABCNews.com offers this written report. And online video of last night’s segment can be accessed via this link.

Posted at 6:40 AM by Howard Bashman