Op-Ed: Ending Roe is a pure exercise of Republican power, wielded to reduce women’s freedom and equality

There is a desire to think that law exists apart from the identity and ideology of the justices. But that is a myth when it comes to the Supreme Court. Its decisions always have been and always will be a product of the identity of those on the bench. For example, from the 1890s until 1936, the court had a very conservative majority and declared unconstitutional over 200 federal, state, and local laws protecting workers and consumers. Only once in American history, during the Warren Court, from 1954-1969, and especially from 1962-1969, was there a liberal majority on the high court and its decisions were progressive in a way never otherwise seen in American history.

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Presumably it is only justices that engage in this sort of motivated reasoning, and not deans of law schools. Thus everything the dean says about the solely ideological origins of the Dobbs opinion and the dire fate which awaits us, should be taken at face value.