this is a draft document. that is true and what happened in 1992 was the looking like they were getting ready to overturn roe, david suitor, kennedy, they got together and decided along with john paul stevens and harry blackman on the court at that point, the five got together after the conference and said you know, we re going to cut back on abortion rights but we are going to preserve what they called the core of roe v wade. it is possible that something like that could happen here but there is a big difference. the difference is the record and the political outlook of the justices who are on the court now. amy coney barrett, knneil gorsu, brett kavanaugh, they are all on
being an evangelical has been reduced politically to abortion. and that conservatism has been reduced to abortion the way it has. it has become the defining issue. and for people that think that it was always this way, talk about a time pre-1980, this just wasn t the case, this is an issue that republicans and conservatives began using to draw a wedge on culture issues between conservatives and liberals. and i think this is a very important point for what s happened to america in the past 50 years. is these issues have become much more partisan and divided, the two parties, in the way that the parties have not been divided on cultural lines before. in 1973, when roe was decided, it was decided by republican supreme court. a decision, very strong decision written by justice harry
thank you-all for joining us. good evening to you. jeffrey, i ll start with you. the legal grounds, what are the legal grounds they are using in the draft to overturn the precedent, which has been the law of the land for decades? well, this has been a brutal fight in the courts over the years and even on the acsupreme court. the legal arguments are very familiar. starting in the mid 60s, the supreme court began recognizing the right to privacy and have a zone within people s lives that the government couldn t invade. it started with the right to take birth control for married people in 1964 and 1973 that right to privacy was recognized as including the right to abortion and harry blackman s
for impartiality of judgments, and moving off the first amendment questions, throughout the court s history, it has been so key, and the court has relied on it to maintain stability and the law inform the impartiality, and i know senator durbin, a very famous book about him, justice harry blackman, justice breyer succeeded on the court said in his concurrence in planned parenthood v. casey up the decision to uphold roe vs. wade, what has happened should serve as a model for future justices and warning for all who try to turn the court into yet another political branch. what role do you think stary
thank you very much. judge jackson. thank you. senator klobuchar find a minnesota connection to almost everything. very proud of the fact, but justice blackman was born in nashville, illinois. okay. he was a lawyer at the mayo clinic, as we know, and spent a lot of time. i m going to lose this battle. a lawyer in minnesota when he was chosen to the supreme court, but thank you for pointing that out. and now to the great state of texas, senator cruz. thank you, mr. chairman. judge jackson, welcome. thank you. congratulations. thank you. you and i have known each other a long time. we have. we went to law school together. we were on the law review together. we were a year apart. happily so, i hope, senator. we were not particularly close, but we were always friendly and cordial. we were. and you and i had a very positive and productive meeting in my office where we discussed a number of things, including you were there with former