as an american institution. that s what they re saying. so we re looking at it for that, but we are looking too, and that they say is a reason why. a reason why when you get a case like that, you better be damn sure that the normal stari considerations overruling are really there in spades double, triple, quadruple, and then they go through and show their knowledge. okay? what s the paradox? maybe you think i ve just made an argument that there isn t one, but really, in my head, i m thinking i m not sure. there may be one, and i don t know if you ve ever thought about this. i don t know if you ever have when that occurred to you. i don t want to overrule the i wouldn t want the court to overrule the staridecisis section of casey.
thank you. i want to ask a followup question. the chief was asking about the viability line and if that was the right place, the right line to draw. let s take it out of the question and imagine there s a state constitution that s identical to the 14th amendment due process clause. and a state supreme court has to decide as a matter of state constitutional law what the scope of an abortion right is. and the second trimester ends at 27 weeks. and so that state supreme court says we think that the right exists in an absolute sense that the state can not take away the right up to 27 weeks and after that adopts an undue burden standard. as a matter of first principals, is that line acceptable as a matter of constitutional law? your honor, it may be, but i think that the question in this case is whether a line is
who is on an international flight coming into the united states, that is a change that you should be prepared for, and they are also considering, john, having people retest several days after they get back into the united states. because health experts have said this is kind of a missing hole here where people take that one test, they get into the united states, but maybe they don t start to show symptoms or test positive until several days later. another thing under consideration that they were debating last night is whether or not even fully vaccinated americans should have to test again several days after getting into the united states, something that is recommended by the cdc right now but not required. we ll see if that changes. john, we should note that as they re ramping up surveillance at four different airports in the united states where you see all those international flights come into, they re also having airlines collect passenger information, give that to the cdc so the cd
runaway train rolling down the track fosse ar long time. i will say one last thing, the job that chief justice roberts had was different in a 5:-4 in 5-4 court than it is in this 6-3 court. 6-3 is a really hard hand to play when you are chief justice roberts. you have to get two of those votes to stick with starry zisis and to do and to stick with trying to promote the legitimacy of the court. he is now playing a losing hand. he played surprisingly winning hand for a long time. it look like in this case again, i don t predict what s going happen but, boy, this was a bad day for could you hardly imagine the arguments going worse if you were trying
america would probably say this right is a more central right. now we are only analyzing this in terms of politics. not wrongly. you think back to roe, it was 7-2 decision? a 7-2 discussion. who was on the court, chief justiceberger, a nixon appointee. justice blackmon, a nixon appointee. justice powell, a nixon appointee. stewart, an eisenhower appointee. all of these people were republican appointees. that was what conservative used to mean in the judicial sense. they voted some ways in ways conservatives didn t like. they were separate, separate from the republicans in congress. but they the appointments of constituents are frustrated often when they thought they were going to get something and they got something he will. on this case, this has been the