The Christian Science Monitor Daily for May 24, 2022

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : "If Dobbs comes out more or less where the Alito first draft was, this is the biggest event in the court's history since Brown," says Mr. Garrow, referring to Brown v. Board of Education, the case in which the Supreme Court banned segregation in public schools.
49% : Voting rights have narrowed, gun rights have expanded, and campaign finance laws have loosened, to name just a few jurisprudential trends.
47% : When the Supreme Court established the right to abortion in Roe v. Wade in 1973 in a 7-2 ruling, it immediately ranked among the court's most historic opinions.
46% : He has also often sought to avoid sudden, significant change in many areas of the law, including abortion.
43% :Of all the issues the Supreme Court considers, in the modern era the right to abortion has been the most fraught.
42% : On Monday the court issued two opinions: a unanimous ruling in a technical employment arbitration case, and a 6-3 ruling - along ideological lines - that eliminated an avenue of appeal for death penalty inmates on the grounds of inadequate representation.
39% : Days earlier, a draft ruling overturning the right to abortion had leaked to the public - the kind of ruling Chief Justice Roberts has spent much of his career trying to avoid.
39% : Recent examples include the Supreme Court's decision affirming Congress' right to investigate the president and that a sitting president is not immune to criminal investigation.
38% : The latter ruling continued a Roberts Court trend of favoring the government over criminal defendants.
37% : Overturning the right to abortion would be another matter entirely, however.
37% : The leaks include a full draft opinion published by Politico, revealing that there are at least five votes among the justices to overturn the half-century-old constitutional right to abortion.
37% : Big cases involving the Affordable Care Act, campaign finance, same-sex marriage, partisan gerrymandering, and the Trump-era travel ban have all been decided by one vote - and often with the chief justice in the majority.
22% : "In the Dobbs oral argument, Chief Justice Roberts proposed a compromise solution in which a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy is upheld without overturning Roe.

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