Legal Conservatism’s Moment of Truth: Abortion Returns to the Supreme Court
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In agreeing to hear the Mississippi abortion case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week placed directly in its crosshairs the court’s two foundational modern abortion precedents, Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. In preparing to decide whether all restrictions on pre-”viability” abortions are unconstitutional, as the court’s order for a writ of certiorari indicates it will do, the court is teeing itself up for a potentially landmark or potentially grievously disappointing ruling next term. In girding itself to rule in Dobbs, and by extension ruling on the life-or-death fortunes of countless unborn children on this bedrock civilizational justice issue, a nominally conservative court is set to also decide the life-or-death fate of the legal conservative movement itself.
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Gov. Eric Holcomb unveils his 2021 legislative agenda at the virtual Dentons Legislative Conference Thursday. Holcomb’s priorities revisit many goals promoted by his administration over the last four years with a new emphasis on the impact of COVID-19. “Every single thing on this agenda is very important to the growth of our state,” Holcomb said. Photo by Erica Irish, TheStatehouseFile.com.
Biden Policies Are Discouraging Work, Delaying Recovery
With COVID-19 in full retreat, it ought to feel like morning again in America. The vaccines have been a huge success thanks to Operation Warp Speed, with more than 125 million Americans now fully immunized. Mask mandates across the country are disappearing. Demand for consumer goods is on the rise. By all measures, our economy should be booming, yet millions of Americans remain on the sidelines and are not returning to work.
In April our economy added 266,000 jobs, far fewer than the one million jobs experts had predicted. This slow rate of hiring is not for lack of opportunity â there are now eight million jobs across the country waiting to be filled. Employers simply cannot find workers. According to the National Federation of Independent Business, last month 44 percent of small businesses had openings that they could not fill.
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