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Why Roe Still Stands: Abortion Law, the Supreme Court, and the Republican Regime
Ist Teil von
Studies in law, politics, and society, 2016 (70), p.33
Ort / Verlag
Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Erscheinungsjahr
2016
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Beschreibungen/Notizen
From one angle, abortion law appears to confirm the regime politics account of the Supreme Court; after all, the Reagan/Bush coalition succeeded in significantly curtailing the constitutional protection of abortion rights. From another angle, however, it is puzzling that the Reagan/Bush Court repeatedly refused to overturn Roe v. Wade. We argue that time and again electoral considerations led Republican elites to back away from a forceful assertion of their agenda for constitutional change. As a result, the justices generally acted within the range of possibilities acceptable to the governing regime but still typically had multiple doctrinal options from which to choose.