If It Weren’t for George W. Bush, We Might Still Have Roe

Today’s myriad disasters, including the end of the constitutional right to an abortion, have roots in the Bush administration.

Kavanaugh to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals after his initial 2003 confirmation was held up. He also tapped Neil Gorsuch,

previously a private-practice lawyer who’d started working at the Justice Department the previous year, for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10In 2007, the legal challenges to Bush’s Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act had catapulted the case all the way up to the Supreme Court, which now had two of his picks. Justice Alito proved the key swing vote in

, in which Alberto Gonzales—now Bush’s attorney general—had appealed a federal court’s nullification of the president’s abortion legislation. With the pro-choice O’Connor gone, and Alito in her place, the 5–4 vote inAdvertisementGeorge W.

to the state Supreme Court, granting Abbott what was then his highest-profile judicial position. And in 2000,cleared the way for Texas Lt. Gov. Rick Perry to take the state’s top job. In 2002, Perry then won a full term as governor, with Greg Abbott elected as his attorney general. The two worked to enact and enforce

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