Dissenting Supreme Court justices often say they write for the future. For three justices who bitterly dissented 14 years ago in a decision upholding a Colorado abortion clinic buffer zone, the future arrived almost, but not quite, on Thursday.
The three justices—Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas—dissented in 2000 in Hill v. Colorado, a 6-3 decision rejecting a First Amendment challenge to that state’s eight-foot buffer zone around abortion clinic entrances. A visibly angry Scalia memorably read a summary of his dissent from the bench that day.
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