Now, the sponsors of this bill, the House bill, in Mississippi, said we’re doing it because we have new justices. Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts? I don’t see how it is possible.
Sonia Sotomayor questions the implications of the Mississippi abortion law during Supreme Court arguments.
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