Scalia’s Death Has Liberal Justices Smelling Blood

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The Federalist : Scalia’s Death Has Liberal Justices Smelling Blood

In the few weeks since Antonin Scalia’s death, we are witnessing an unchecked liberal Supreme Court quartet.

By Garrett Snedeker MARCH 8, 2016

They came hard and they came fast for Texas Solicitor General Scott Keller on the morning of March 2. During oral argument at the Supreme Court in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, the Court’s four liberals bore down against Keller when discussing the need for additional health and safety regulations at Texas abortion clinics.

 

Without Justice Antonin Scalia there to interject with less hostile questions to reprieve Keller, the liberal justices pressed him to defend the state’s rationales for why it would treat abortion procedures with more caution than other less morally fraught procedures such as colonoscopies and liposuctions. With a laser-like focus, they premised their questions on an understanding of abortion as a fundamental right that the state could only restrict in the most limited ways, if at all.