We Have Been Here Before

First: Sandra Day O’Connor, p. 261

• The crowds kept getting larger. On January 22, 1989, the sixteenth anniversary of Roe v Wade, more than sixty-thousand demonstrators assembled on the Mall to protest the Court’s famous abortion decision. Over loudspeakers, they heard the newly inaugurated President George H. W. Bush tell them — and send a not-so-subtle signal to the Supreme Court — that the time had come to overrule Roe.