The death of Arlen Specter inspired a predictably conflicted reaction from supporters of abortion rights: He was the guy who kept Robert Bork off the Supreme Court, perhaps in the process saving Roe vs. Wade -- Specter's favorite "super-duper precedent.Former Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter died on Sunday from complications of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, according to the AP. He was 82.And so it should come as no surprise that the first place I heard of Arlen Specter's death was on my newsfeed. Most of my friends lean to the left, and I expected to read lots of defiant statuses calling out Specter's lacklusterThe Associated Press report on the death of longtime Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter remembers the former Senate Judiciary Committee chair as playing "a pivotal role in several Supreme Court nominations." But the AP, which mentions Specter's voteThe death of Arlen Specter inspired a predictably conflicted reaction from supporters of abortion rights: He was the guy who kept Robert Bork off the Supreme Court, perhaps in the process saving Roe vs. Wade -- Specter's favorite "super-duper precedent.
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