I read Linda Greenhouse's latest guest essay about Dobbs so you don't have to. For Greenhouse, overruling Roe is an act of "judicial activism" and "raw power." Of course, Greenhouse is channeling Justice White's dissent that charged the Roe majority with engaging in "raw judicial power." But now, restoring this divisive issue to the political branches is itself activism. Greenhouse is living in a bizarro world where everything is backwards.
Indeed, Greenhouse channels Abraham Lincoln's "House Divided" speech, exactly backwards!
In 13 states, post-Roe anti-abortion laws will spring to life when the 1973 decision is overturned or soon after, and states are, like Oklahoma, passing new laws designed to take advantage of the opening the court is likely about to provide. Does Justice Alito know who said, "I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free"? It was Abraham Lincoln, in his "House Divided" speech of 1858.
