re: #352 Fozzie Bear

Roberts has also made a number of other statements which would lend to a more critical view of his position on the issue.

Scalia has said that the right to abortion is “not constitutionally protected”, so his support for Roe V. Wade is speculative, at best.

When a SCOTUS justice refers to a matter as “settled”, it means he/she doesn’t intend to attempt to challenge it given the current composition of the court. It does NOT mean that this represents the justice’s legal opinion on the matter.

You may be right.

All I have to go on is what they are on record as having said. Scalia has made his opinion known as have the others. As for your other remarks, I really don’t know. Have any justices said that their references to ‘settled law’ are conditional?