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Chuck Schumer Knows How To Spot Potential Supreme Court Justices Outside The ‘Mainstream’

These are definitely cases you’d have read in law school.

Answer: Roe v. Wade (1973) and Lochner v. New York (1905). In an interview with the Huffington Post yesterday, Senator Schumer discussed his feelings on a new justice:

“They have to follow the law,” Schumer said in an interview with The Huffington Post on Thursday. “For instance, Roe v. Wade has been the law for a long time. If these people want to just repeal and rip out Roe v. Wade ― you have to look at the whole picture. I’m not going to have a litmus test. But that would be an indication.”

And he went on to note:

“If they want to go back to the days of Lochner, when states couldn’t regulate businesses and protect employees, that would be something out of the mainstream,” he added.

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