Tag Archives: Solicitor General
Dobbs Sentences #146: Part II C 1
Paragraph 5 of 6 Sentence 3 of 3 This sentence is a single claim that continues the train of thought of the previous sentence: “Respondents and the Solicitor General also rely on post-Casey decisions like Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003) (right to engage in private, consensual sexual acts), and Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 […]
Dobbs Sentences #115: Part II B 3
Paragraph 6 of 11 Sentence 1 of 4 I see three claims in the next sentence: “The Solicitor General next suggests that history supports an abortion right because the common law’s failure to criminalize abortion before quickening means that ‘at the Founding and for decades thereafter, women generally could terminate a pregnancy, at least in […]
Dobbs Sentences #109: Part II B 3
Paragraph 4 of 11 Sentence 3 of 4 There are a few tightly-bound claims in this sentence: “But as we have seen, great common-law authorities like Bracton, Coke, Hale, and Blackstone all wrote that a post-quickening abortion was a crime—and a serious one at that.” Here’s where we get into issues that annoy people who […]
Dobbs Sentences #108: Part II B 3
Paragraph 4 of 11 Sentence 2 of 4 This sentence consists of one claim: “The Solicitor General repeats Roe’s claim that it is ‘“doubtful” . . . “abortion was ever firmly established as a common-law crime even with respect to the destruction of a quick fetus.”’ Brief for United States 26 (quoting Roe, 410 U.S., […]
Dobbs Sentences #102: Part II B 3
Paragraph 2 of 11 Sentence 1 of 3 One claim here, but a lot of checking to do: “Neither respondents nor the Solicitor General disputes the fact that by 1868 the vast majority of States criminalized abortion at all stages of pregnancy. See Brief for Petitioners 12–13; see also Brief for American Historical Association et […]
Cynical Jason 