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# Letter
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/letter-37/
- Published: 2022-07-05T18:03:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-11T23:47:04.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Letters, Opinion, letter, letter to the editor, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 12:28

Editor:

Claudia Trevisan, in SMDP’s June 25-26 issue, urged passage of the 2021 Judiciary Act, which would add four seats to the Supreme Court.

I urge Ms. Trevisan to rethink the idea that such a law can automatically restore ‘balance to the court’, as she and many others assume in the wake of yesterday’s 6-3 decision overturning Roe vs. Wade.

There is no guarantee whatsoever that this balance will emerge in the event that another such case comes before the justices. A 7-4 anti-choice split is just as likely, or some other lopsided result.

The judiciary was never the arena in which to secure a woman’s right to choose. Even before the current Court shot Roe down once and for all, its 50-year history was full of cliffhangers.

As President Biden said recently, we must codify that right into law. Nothing else will bring it about.

Joan Walston, Santa Monica