Clare Huntington was quoted in a Bustle article about the potential impact of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement from the Supreme Court.
Justice Anthony Kennedy’s decision to leave the Supreme Court means a lot more for women than you might think. Soon after he announced his impending retirement on Wednesday, pro-choice groups sprung into action, vowing to do everything possible to protect Roe v. Wade. With President Trump poised to pick an anti-abortion nominee to replace Kennedy, what is the actual likelihood that abortion laws in the U.S. will change?
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Fordham law professor Clare Huntington calls it “a bedrock principle of our law.”
“[It’s] the idea that when something’s decided — for a constitutional decision, especially — you don’t revisit it,” Huntington tells Bustle. “That’s not a conservative principle, that’s a fundamental legal principle. But it is certainly something that conservatives feel very strongly about.”