Judicial Nominations

by Neal Devins (Editor), Wendy L. Watson (Editor)

Overview

On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Roe v. Wade. Holding that a woman’s substantive due process right to terminate her pregnancy in the early months outweighed state interests in maternal health and fetal protection, the Court struck down a Texas law permitting abortions only to save the life of the mother. This series is divided into three volumes, with each part containing multiple case studies. Volume One (two books) considers legislative initiatives; Volume Two (two books) reviews executive initiatives; and Volume Three (one book) examines judicial nominations. Abortion funding, clinic access legislation, freedom of choice and human life legislative proposals, and proposed constitutional amendments are considered in Part One. Presidential positions, federal family planning regulation (domestic and international), fetal tissue research, and governmental briefs and arguments in abortion-related Supreme Court litigation are the subject of Part Two.First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815319085
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/15/2019
Series:	Federal Abortion Politics Series
Pages:	433
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Neal Devins is Goodrich Professor of Law, Professor of Government, and Director of the Institute of Bill of Rights Law at the William & Mary School of Law. Among his books are Shaping Constitutional Values: The Supreme Court, Elected Government, and the Abortion Dispute; The Democratic Constitution (co-authored with Louis Fisher); and A Year at the Supreme Court (coedited with Davison Douglas and published by Duke University Press). Wendy L. Watson is a lecturer in Political Science at the University of North Texas. She is the co-editor (with Neal Devins) of Federal Abortion Politics: A Documentary History and the author of "Forensic DNA Analysis" (in the edited volume Privacy in the Digital Age: 21st-Century Challenges to the Fourth Amendment). Her research interests include equal access to the courts, the interaction between politics and constitutional law, and pedagogy.

Table of Contents

Preface, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Background, Index of Documents, Documents, Justice Antonin Scalia andChief Justice William Rehnquist, Background, Index of Documents, Documents, The Nomination of Robert Bork, Background, Index of Documents, Documents, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Background, Index of Documents, Documents, Justice David Souter, Background, Index of Documents, Documents, Justice Clarence Thomas, Background, Index of Documents, Documents, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Background, Index of Documents, Documents