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Dobbs Sentences #131: Part II B 3
Paragraph 11 of 11 Sentence 2 of 2 The final sentence in Part II B 3 has just one claim: “And we see no reason to discount the significance of the state laws in question based on these amici’s suggestions about legislative motive.41” This claim is subjective, and not really eligible for verification or falsification: […]
Dobbs Sentences #130: Part II B 3
Paragraph 11 of 11 Sentence 1 of 2 The next sentence has three claims: “One may disagree with this belief (and our decision is not based on any view about when a State should regard prenatal life as having rights or legally cognizable interests), but even Roe and Casey did not question the good faith […]
Dobbs Sentences #129: Part II B 3
Paragraph 10 of 11 Sentence 2 of 2 On claim and a fistful of sources with this sentence: “Many judicial decisions from the late 19th and early 20th centuries made that point. See, e.g., Nash v. Meyer, 54 Idaho 283, 301, 31 P. 2d 273, 280 (1934); State v. Ausplund, 86 Ore. 121, 131–132, 167 […]
Dobbs Sentences #128: Part II B 3
Paragraph 10 of 11 Sentence 1 of 2 One claim in this sentence: “There is ample evidence that the passage of these laws was instead spurred by a sincere belief that abortion kills a human being.” That’s a motive, too, right? Certainly held by some—maybe even most—but it would be irresponsible to ascribe it to […]
Dobbs Sentences #127: Part II B 3
Paragraph 9 of 11 Sentence 3 of 3 This sentence is a single claim couched in a rhetorical question: “Are we to believe that the hundreds of lawmakers whose votes were needed to enact these laws were motivated by hostility to Catholics and women?” The claim: It is, of course, unlikely-bordering-on-impossible that one group of […]
Dobbs Sentences #126: Part II B 3
Paragraph 9 of 11 Sentence 2 of 3 The next sentence contains three claims: “Recall that at the time of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, over three-quarters of the States had adopted statutes criminalizing abortion (usually at all stages of pregnancy), and that from the early 20th century until the day Roe was handed […]
Dobbs Sentences #125: Part II B 3
Paragraph 9 of 11 Sentence 1 of 3 I get four claims out of this sentence: “Here, the argument about legislative motive is not even based on statements by legislators, but on statements made by a few supporters of the new 19th-century abortion laws, and it is quite a leap to attribute these motives to […]
Dobbs Sentences #124: Part II B 3
Paragraph 8 of 11 Sentence 4 and 5 of 5 I’m actually doing two sentences at a time here, because the Dobbs authors have broken what should be one sentence with an integrated quote into two separate sentences. Neither does anything on its own, though, so here they are together: “Even when an argument about […]
Dobbs Sentences #123: Part II B 3
Paragraph 8 of 11 Sentence 3 of 5 Just one claim in this sentence: “The Court has recognized that inquiries into legislative motives ‘are a hazardous matter.’ O’Brien, 391 U. S., at 383.” That is definitely a thing that was written in O’Brien. Here’s the passage in O’Brien: “Inquiries into congressional motives or purposes are […]
Dobbs Sentences #122: Part II B 3
Paragraph 8 of 11 Sentence 2 of 5 More citation than claim in this sentence: “This Court has long disfavored arguments based on alleged legislative motives. See, e.g., Erie v. Pap’s A. M., 529 U. S. 277, 292 (2000) (plurality opinion); Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. FCC, 512 U. S. 622, 652 (1994); United States […]
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