Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas Abortion Restrictions

[Landslide Lyndon]

Kennedy has taken a sharp turn to the left. What's the catch?

[Landslide Lyndon]

Worst day in America in years!

I mean, I know Republicans have not exactly been known to care about gay people, but wouldn't you say that Orlando, at the very least, is worse than this, if not other days?

No, Orlando killed 49 innocent people.  Abortion kills 3000 innocent people each day (and more than 49 of them would have likely been saved in one day alone by upholding the Texas laws).  January 22, 1973 is the darkest day in the history of this country, hands down.

Foetuses are not persons.

Uh, they each have the potential to become one?

So does sperm. I guess that means we must criminalize masturbation.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Kennedy has taken a sharp turn to the left. What's the catch?

That he hasn't.  On abortion he's always been a moderate hero and all this decision did was strike down two provisions that claimed to be about protecting women's health but clearly had no purpose other than to restrict abortions.  I could see him possibly voting to sustain some of the new round of laws that essentially ban abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy, but not something as sweeping as these provisions were in impacting 1st trimester abortions.

Well, most SCOTUS analysts disagree with you on that, and they point at his Carhart vote.
But even so that doesn't explain his sudden change of heart on affirmative action.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Kennedy has taken a sharp turn to the left. What's the catch?

That he hasn't.  On abortion he's always been a moderate hero and all this decision did was strike down two provisions that claimed to be about protecting women's health but clearly had no purpose other than to restrict abortions.  I could see him possibly voting to sustain some of the new round of laws that essentially ban abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy, but not something as sweeping as these provisions were in impacting 1st trimester abortions.

Well, most SCOTUS analysts disagree with you on that, and they point at his Carhart vote.
But even so that doesn't explain his sudden change of heart on affirmative action.

Carhart was about very late-term abortions, not all abortions. Kennedy has clearly shown he views early abortions differently than late abortions. Ever since the oral arguments on this case it as clear he'd be skeptical of the Texas law so I don't know which analysts you were reading.

Here are two of them:

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/27/opinions/supreme-court-abortion-decision-jeffrey-toobin/

http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-06-29/justice-anthony-kennedy-turns-into-a-liberal