Obama’s Long Lost Law Review Article

Via Politico.

As president of the Harvard Law Review and a law professor in Chicago, Senator Barack Obama refined his legal thinking, but left a scant paper trail. His name doesn’t appear on any legal scholarship.
But an unsigned — and previously unattributed — 1990 article unearthed by Politico offers a glimpse at Obama’s views on abortion policy and the law during his student days, and provides a rare addition to his body of work.

The six-page summary, tucked into the third volume of the year’s Harvard Law Review, considers the charged, if peripheral, question of whether fetuses should be able to file lawsuits against their mothers. Obama’s answer, like most courts’: No. He wrote approvingly of an Illinois Supreme Court ruling that the unborn cannot sue their mothers for negligence, and he suggested that allowing fetuses to sue would violate the mother’s rights and could, perversely, cause her to take more risks with her pregnancy.

1. If What Obama thought years ago is somehow relevant now?
   Than isn’t McCain’s keating 5 Involvement fair game?
   or his treatment/cheating on his wife?

   I’d have thought that alone would bother you Owen?

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 22, 2008 at 0906 hrs




2. Seems pretty straight forward and in line with precedent.

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 22, 2008 at 0942 hrs




3. Well, it is relevant if that’s what he thinks today.

   Both candidate’s views on issues that will very likely present themselves during their term as president should be on the table.  Abortion clearly falls in that category.  If his views changed over the years, I wouldn’t necessarily hold it against him, but he should explain it.

   If you want to make an issue of the Keating 5, I think you should go ahead.  Seems to me, however, that infidelity is a losing issue from the Democrat side.

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 22, 2008 at 1031 hrs




4. What was Obama’s pay grade back then?

   Posted by Josh Schroeder on August 22, 2008 at 1146 hrs




5. Okay Josh, that was funny.

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 22, 2008 at 1205 hrs




6. I’m not following.  Is this bad because he’s not letting cute little fetuses sue, or is it good because he’s in favor of limiting tort liability?

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 22, 2008 at 1318 hrs