Comments on: Jeff Sessions and the Tabula Rasa http://www.wholesomereading.com/2009/05/28/jeff-sessions-and-the-tabula-rasa/ Musings on culture and politics by baseball writer Steven Goldman Sat, 19 May 2012 10:38:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Shaun P. http://www.wholesomereading.com/2009/05/28/jeff-sessions-and-the-tabula-rasa/#comment-834 Shaun P. Thu, 28 May 2009 13:58:54 +0000 http://www.wholesomereading.com/?p=462#comment-834 Hmmm . . . faithful to the law, eh, Senator? Last time I checked, the law of the land is that a woman has a right to an abortion - though limited in many, many ways - and because Sessions wants to make sure Sotomayor is faithful to the law, I have no doubt he'll be pleased to know she would not overturn Roe. Hey, how did Alito and Roberts get by Sessions and his "faithful to the law and not allow their personal views to influence decision-making" requirement? There's a lot more that could be said here, but I'll say just a bit of it. I'm 99.9% sure that Scalia's personal view is that abortion is morally wrong. However, I'm equally sure that such thoughts are not the basis for Scalia wanting to overturn Roe (whatever the Religious Right would like to believe). Rather, Scalia thinks Roe should be overturned because, IN HIS PERSONAL VIEW of how the Constitution works and should be interpreted, Roe was wrongly decided on Constitutional grounds. There's that personal view thing again! Hmmm . . . faithful to the law, eh, Senator? Last time I checked, the law of the land is that a woman has a right to an abortion - though limited in many, many ways - and because Sessions wants to make sure Sotomayor is faithful to the law, I have no doubt he’ll be pleased to know she would not overturn Roe.

Hey, how did Alito and Roberts get by Sessions and his “faithful to the law and not allow their personal views to influence decision-making” requirement?

There’s a lot more that could be said here, but I’ll say just a bit of it. I’m 99.9% sure that Scalia’s personal view is that abortion is morally wrong. However, I’m equally sure that such thoughts are not the basis for Scalia wanting to overturn Roe (whatever the Religious Right would like to believe). Rather, Scalia thinks Roe should be overturned because, IN HIS PERSONAL VIEW of how the Constitution works and should be interpreted, Roe was wrongly decided on Constitutional grounds. There’s that personal view thing again!

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