Betsy's Page: Understanding Justice Kennedy

re: "Jan Crawford Greenburg (whose fascinating book Supreme Conflict I am presently reading and highly recommend) gives us some insight into what was motivating Justice Kennedy's decision in the partial birth abortion case decided this week. He feels that the states have a legitimate role in limiting abortions and was angry about the earlier ruling in Stenberg v. Cathcart. He feels that O'Connor and Souter rather backtracked on what they had agreed to in Pennsylvania v. Casey..."...