Scalia Was Right — Again

The Court’s abortion-affirming ruling in Casey ‘merely prolongs and intensifies the anguish,’ he wrote.

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Then-Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia testifies before a House Judiciary Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee hearing in 2010.

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Justice Antonin Scalia was among the most prescient Supreme Court justices in American history, and the firestorm over the leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion overturning Roe is a reminder of it.

In Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, the 1992 Supreme Court decision upholding (and amending) Roe v. Wade, the justices in the majority believed that they could settle once and for all the dispute over abortion.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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