There's a lot of talk on this forum about the right wing supreme court.
Today there are two news articles worth mentioning on this subject. Both, it would seem, could have been signals to the religious conservatives that the court, with it's conservative majority, is with them. That's not what's happened though.
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(Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an attempt by anti-abortion activists to place what they call a "personhood amendment" on the Oklahoma ballot to define an embryo as a human being from the moment of conception.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...89S0WC20121029 And
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(Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the appeal of an anti-abortion protester who claimed his free speech rights were violated when park rangers removed him from a sidewalk near the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...89S0XW20121029 I'm not an expert on the Supreme Court, nor am I a constitutional attorney, so this may be a play for a longer range strategy for all I know, but it certainly doesn't look like these folks are nearly as scary as some members here would like to make them appear.
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