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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum told an anti-abortion convention that there is a straight line from Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that struck down abortion bans, to the ruling in June that declared same-sex marriage bans unconstitutional.
“We’ve seen some court decisions that I know have some people very upset about what the future of marriage and family and our culture are,” Santorum told those assembled at the National Right to Life Convention (NRLC) in New Orleans Friday. He called Roe “the cancer that is infecting the body of America.”
“When did it become the law of the land that the Supreme Court has the final say on everything?” Santorum demanded, in one of the biggest applause lines of his speech. He added that the people would have the final say.
Most historians trace the judicial review of democratically enacted laws to the 1803 decision in Marbury v. Madison. Santorum was technically correct that a constitutional amendment could override a Supreme Court ruling — but that is not an easy lift.
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