2022-06-24
a) The infamous Roe vs Wade judgement has been overturned - this in effect permits individual states the right to determine their own laws relating to termination of a pregnancy.
b) The Second Amendment covering the citizens' right to bear arms has been upheld, with the New York restrictions on "concealed carry" being overturned as restricting the right to self-defence and therefore incompatible with the Constitution.
Two resounding (if much delayed) victories for the traditional American Constitution.
Some of the dissenting opinions are interesting not because they dissent but because the reasoning behind the dissent fails to recognise that in law, the Constitution is supreme and that if a change is required then there are defined ways of effecting the required change - it is not sufficient that the Supreme Court should simply come to a judgement that gives effect to an unreasonable interpretation of the Constitution, as it seems was done in the original Roe v Wade case.
The fact that the Court took the hard decision to overrule that original flawed precedent is a measure of its integrity.
