rmalarz wrote:
The justices in 1973 were Potter Stewart, William O. Douglas, Warren E. Burger (chief justice), William Brennan, Byron White. Lewis F. Powell, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, and William Rehnquist.
Oddly, there was a similar leak prior to the official decision of SCOTUS in 1973.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-original-roe-v-wade-ruling-was-leaked-to-the-press-too-180980016/
Current SCOTUS justices are John G. Roberts, Jr., Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito, Jr. Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Different Justices all together.
I bring this up because the Supreme Court's popularity is falling. I don't believe the Supreme Court is interested in a popularity contest as much as Constitutional Law. Does anyone care to comment?
--Bob
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you don't think the current and past Justices are influenced by their personal beliefs ????? .... there are many cases where the Supreme Court rules one way and a subsequent court reversed the prior courts judgement ..... Dred Scott for one and Lochner v New York is another .... there are many more ....