Read, hear and watch some excerpts of the nine sitting Supreme Court justices from their Senate confirmation hearings and Wednesday’s oral arguments on a Mississippi abortion case
Justices’ comments during oral arguments are by no means determinative. Still, their remarks are closely parsed by reporters and legal observers for indications of which way they will ultimately come down on a case.
Here are some excerpts of the nine sitting justices from their Senate confirmation hearings and Wednesday’s oral arguments inThen “I know there are people of strongly held views on both sides of the issue. And I know that the responsibility of a judge confronting this issue is to decide the case according to the rule of law consistent with the precedents, not to take sides in a dispute as a matter of policy, but to decide it according to the law.”. That decision, that application of the principles ofis, of course, itself a precedent that would be entitled to respect under those principles.
“If you think that the issue is one of choice — that women should have a choice to terminate their pregnancy — that supposes that there is a point at which they’ve had the fair choice, opportunity to choose, and why would 15 weeks be an inappropriate line? Because viability, it seems to me, doesn’t have anything to do with choice.
“The problem with a super case like this, the rare case, the watershed case, where people are really opposed on both sides and they really fight each other, is they’re going to be ready to say ‘No you’re just political, you’re just politicians.’ And that’s what kills us as an American institution.”“I think that the legitimacy of the Court would be undermined in any case if the Court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
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