Penumbras

If you follow the links, you'll see that "penumbras" is not jargon, but a description of the legal landscape as the authors see it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Scoffing at "penumbras" is (particularly when this is used as a point of derision in Griswold when this irritation is not evident in the manifold other uses of the word). ❋ Unknown (2007)

So a Contitutionally-unenumerated right to privacy results in emanations and penumbras from the Constitution that allows third trimester partial birth abortions, and restricts laws against sodomy and makes birth control a subject for strict scrutiny of legislation limiting its availability. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We have two solid new Justices on the Supreme Court who don't believe in inventing new rights from "penumbras" -- and just like in 2004, the Supreme Court is at stake again. ❋ Suzanne (2006)

The folks that don't like a liberal interpretation of our rights (gotta wonder why) really like to jump on this word "penumbras", but it was hardly a manufactured term or concept in Griswold but preceded it by quite some time. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Disdain for the word "penumbras" seems to be just lexicographic (and legal) ignorance and anti-intellectualism. ❋ Unknown (2007)

After all, much of what many of us hold dear about the Constitution is protected by no more than "penumbras". ❋ Unknown (2009)

Let's get past this crapola about the "penumbras" in Griswold. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Conservatives scoff at "penumbras", because they didn't like Griswold much, and hate its progeny Roe even more. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Justice Kennedy's "meditations were in the tradition of 'penumbras' 'emanations,'" Sen. McCain said, using memorable words from the court's 1965 opinion invalidating a ban on contraceptives. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In any case, if you want to defend this argument about "penumbras", you'll need to do better than just make the claim. ❋ Unknown (2007)