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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Fellow LNC members:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>As of right now, <font color=black><span style='color:
black'>9</span></font>am Pacific Time on<font color=black><span
style='color:black'> Tuesday, June 30, </span></font>there <font color=black><span
style='color:black'>have been 8 articles of one kind or another <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>regarding <font color=black><span style='color:black'>the “verdict’
in Obergefell v Hodges (</span></font>the Gay Marriage<font color=black><span
style='color:black'> case) posted </span></font>on the LP’s Facebook page<font
color=black><span style='color:black'> since that “verdict” was
issued.</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>There is nothing wrong with that.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>However – it has been <font color=black><span
style='color:black'>5 days </span></font>since the Supreme Court’s
“verdict” in the King v. Burwell case was released, <font
color=black><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>and there are <font color=black><span style='color:black'>still
</span></font>0 articles <font color=black><span style='color:black'>r</span></font>egarding
that “verdict” on the LP’s Facebook page.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Had the “verdict”
in King v. Burwell gone the correct way, it is possible that the Republican
House and Senate would have done the right thing and let ObamaCare disintegrate
within the next few years by refusing to let the Federal Government subsidize
health insurance premiums.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>I am surprised that
our Facebook team has not posted at least one or two articles that chastise the
<s>communist</s> progressive members of the US Supreme Court
for going even further than the Court went in Roe v. Wade in actually looking <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>outside</span></b> the penumbra of the Constitution
for guidance on how to opine.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'> Scott
Lieberman<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>PS: it is always
interesting when a right-leaning libertarian like me agrees with Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg, and it is especially nice when the source is the Huffington
Post:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/11/ruth-bader-ginsburg-roe-v-wade_n_3261187.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/11/ruth-bader-ginsburg-roe-v-wade_n_3261187.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“CHICAGO
— <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>One of the most liberal members of
the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg</span></b> could be
expected to give a rousing defense of Roe v. Wade in reflecting on the landmark
vote 40 years after it established a nationwide right to abortion.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Instead,
Ginsburg told an audience Saturday at the University of Chicago Law School that
while she supports a woman's right to choose, she feels the ruling by her
predecessors on the court was too sweeping and gave abortion opponents a symbol
to target. Ever since, she said, the momentum has been on the other side, with
anger over Roe fueling a state-by-state campaign that has placed more
restrictions on abortion.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"That
was my concern, that the court had given opponents of access to abortion a
target to aim at relentlessly," she told a crowd of students. "... My
criticism of Roe is that it seemed to have stopped the momentum that was on the
side of change."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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The ruling is also a disappointment to a degree, Ginsburg said, because it was
not argued in weighty terms of advancing women's rights. Rather, the Roe
opinion, written by Justice Harry Blackmun, centered on the right to privacy
and asserted that it extended to a woman's decision on whether to end a
pregnancy.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Four
decades later, abortion is one of the most polarizing issues in American life,
and anti-abortion activists have pushed legislation at the state level in an
effort to scale back the 1973 decision.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>Ginsburg would have rather seen the justices make a narrower
decision that struck down only the <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Texas</st1:place></st1:State>
law that brought the matter before the court. That law allowed abortions only
to save a mother's life.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>A more restrained judgment would have sent a message while
allowing momentum to build at a time when a number of states were expanding abortion
rights, she said. She added that it might also have denied opponents the
argument that abortion rights resulted from an undemocratic process in the
decision by "unelected old men."<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Ginsburg
told the students she prefers what she termed "judicial restraint"
and argued that such an approach can be more effective than expansive,
aggressive decisions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"The
court can put its stamp of approval on the side of change and let that change
develop in the political process," she said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>A similar
dynamic is playing out over gay marriage and the speculation over how the
Supreme Court might act on that issue.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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