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July 1, 2005
A Creationist Supreme Court? We Could End Up Just a Vote Away
Commenting on Justice O'Connor's announced retirement, Chris C. Mooney raises frightening possibility: the beginning of a pro-creationist court.
You will recall that the famous 1987 Edwards v. Aguillard decision was a 7-2 split, with Scalia and Rehnquist in favor of allowing Louisiana to teach "creation science" alongside evolution. O'Connor was in the majority. Clarence Thomas (who votes like Scalia) was not yet on the court. So, it seems to me that if Bush and the religious right succeed in replacing O'Connor with a Scalia-type conservative, there would likely be four votes for creationism on the court.
Four votes is not enough but such a change would clearly be in the wrong direction. With so many issues at stake, a "Scalia-type conservative" replacing Justice O'Connor would be bad for almost all of them.
Posted by Duane Smith at July 1, 2005 11:31 AM | Read more on Current Events |
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