Law Students

Sarah Palin (hearts) Privacy.

By Dr. Bombay

If you?re anything like me, you have grown increasingly tired of the ?Sarah Palin/Katie Couric? show that CBS seems to have been running longer than ?Survivor.? But one really interesting item of note from last night?s session was that when Couric asked Palin if she believed that the Constitution contained an inherent right of privacy, she said yes.

Here?s the funny part: you know who does not believe that? John McCain. As Alex Koppelman pointed out in Salon, McCain made a floor speech in 1987 expressly supporting Judge Robert Bork?s feeling on the issue during Bork?s confirmation. Full text of that can be found here.

Us savvy law student types know that the right of privacy found in Griswold v. Conneticiut made Roe v. Wade possible. So if Palin really believes that the Constitution contains such a right, then she would tacitly be supporting the findings of Roe. From her public statements, we know that she does not. Giving her the benefit of the doubt, she may believe that the Constitution contains a right of privacy that does not extend to abortion.

But is that possible? Can you limit the right of privacy once you?ve found it?

Full post as published by Fight The Hypo on October 02, 2008 (boomark / email).