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The Destruction of the Supreme Court
Red State ^ | 3 May 2022 | Joe Cunningham

Posted on 05/03/2022 8:35:46 AM PDT by Rummyfan

I find it an amusing coincidence that, on the day students in AP U.S. Government and Politics across the country took their end-of-year exam, arguably the biggest scandal in Supreme Court history broke.

That scandal, the leaking of what appears to be an authentic initial draft opinion on the controversial Dobbs case, has left many in the legal community aghast. Left and right, many agree that this is highly irregular and highly improper. There’s a reason it hasn’t happened before.

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It’s impossible to overstate the earthquake this will cause inside the Court, in terms of the destruction of trust among the Justices and staff. This leak is the gravest, most unforgivable sin.

Whether or not a person supports Roe v. Wade or wishes it to end, we should all be terrified at the prospect of even the Supreme Court succumbing to the most primal of partisan bickering. The leaking of the draft opinion, which is in no way the final decision of the Court but a good indicator of where it’s headed, marks the end of cordiality between judicial philosophies as exemplified by the friendship between Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: abortion; ketanjibrownjackson; paulryan; plannedparenthood; righttolife; roevswade; scotus; wisconsin
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1 posted on 05/03/2022 8:35:46 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Robert’s, who scoffed at the idea that justices were Republican or Democrat and political, just found out that justices indeed are political as the leak had only one purpose, political.


2 posted on 05/03/2022 8:37:50 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Rummyfan

Who was it leaked to first? That is where to start.


3 posted on 05/03/2022 8:38:30 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: Rummyfan

Roberts is opening an investigation. I doubt it will go anywhere.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4059999/posts?page=3#3


4 posted on 05/03/2022 8:40:48 AM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: dforest

Apparently it was leaked to Politico.


5 posted on 05/03/2022 8:41:08 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Rummyfan

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see viewing a draft opinion as the “destruction” of the Supreme Court.

If they want to create “legislation” and have us on the edge of our seats every June, then let’s see the drafts and changes along the way, like how we can see legislation being put together, in public, either in legislative committee or on the legislative floor.

As there are back office deals in the legislature, there are back office deals in the judiciary.

For the first time, we’re going to be able to compare a final opinion with a first draft, and see the changes. And that may not be such a bad thing - since these people work for us after all.


6 posted on 05/03/2022 8:41:32 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: Rummyfan

Stolen Election

Stolen Supreme Court

Stolen Presidency

Stolen Legislature

Illegitimate Marxist Communist Brandon Junta

Fake President opining on stolen Supreme Court Opinion =
What the Marxist Communists think of America and its “Constitution”

Not a word from the Fake President re the extraordinary step of stealing and releasing a Supreme Court Opinion.


7 posted on 05/03/2022 8:42:13 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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Justice or not, you have to be eight kinds of stupid to not recognize the psychotic fervor the libtard scum have toward perverting and outright killing children; why would anyone in the right mind think that ANY LIBTARD SCUM would not do everything in their power to pervert normalcy and morality?


8 posted on 05/03/2022 8:42:42 AM PDT by Common Sense 101
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To: cotton1706
For the first time, we’re going to be able to compare a final opinion with a first draft, and see the changes. And that may not be such a bad thing - since these people work for us after all.

I never thought of that angle. Very astute observation.

9 posted on 05/03/2022 8:42:59 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (2.41 million active users on Truth Social)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Figures.


10 posted on 05/03/2022 8:46:05 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: Rummyfan

Once it’s determined that the USSC is no longer reliable as a tool towards their agenda it will be destroyed by the left.


11 posted on 05/03/2022 8:47:25 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: Rummyfan
The Destruction of the Supreme Court Is just following the Commie Plan. If we take the a House and Senate we need to destroy the Libs. Investigators left and right, seize assets, use the DOJ, SEC, IRS, FEC to investigate all of them!

Just like Rahm shouted out the name of another enemy, lifted the knife, then brought it down with full force into the table. ''Dead!'' he screamed.

12 posted on 05/03/2022 8:47:43 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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“...If they want to create “legislation” and have us on the edge of our seats every June...”

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The problem for the Judicial Branch is that they want to maintain - however impossible it is now to do so - the illusion that they don’t create policy/make new laws. The problem is that they more than obviously do and have done so for quite some time. For a long time Americans didn’t really know what to make of an activist court system, perhaps beleiving that it would restrain itself in time from the worst abuses. That has obviously not happened. The jucicial branch is effectively a para-legislative branch as evidenced by how vicious the fighting is over Court justices.


13 posted on 05/03/2022 8:49:39 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: Lockbox

Are you serious? The IRS? They are the enemy!


14 posted on 05/03/2022 8:50:12 AM PDT by gr8eman
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To: SamAdams76

“I never thought of that angle. Very astute observation.”

I’m going to post this angle. Perhaps other will be interested in that thought too.


15 posted on 05/03/2022 8:50:23 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: Rummyfan
Whether or not a person supports Roe v. Wade or wishes it to end,

Nobody inside of the court who supports overturning Roe v. Wade would have leaked this draft opinion.

Only a rabid liberal who has been brainwashed into believing that a "woman's right to choose" is as sacred as life itself (irony intended) would leak this draft opinion now, while the Democrats still control the House and Senate and can conceivably pass a federal law protecting abortion, pass a law to pack the court with six more liberal Justices, or both, before they lose one or both houses in the midterms.

16 posted on 05/03/2022 8:52:08 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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It will have been the TRUMP appointees who overturned Roe v. Wade, which the RINOs have been running on doing for going on 50 years.

So what do all the vermin never-Trumpers at National Review think of this?

Are they pro-abortion now? Rather than give Trump credit?


17 posted on 05/03/2022 8:53:34 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: cotton1706

“If they want to create “legislation” and have us on the edge of our seats every June, then let’s see the drafts and changes along the way,”

This shatters the myth that humans could ever create an organization that was apolitical, as the Supreme court was sold to be.

As a wise man once said “politics trumps everything” because at its core politics is about self interest - at a large scale.


18 posted on 05/03/2022 8:55:11 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: SamAdams76
Yes, it will be interesting to see how the deliberate process occurs. The drawback is that traditionally, this deliberation has been primarily secret in order to protect it from outside influences. Of course, we have not been aware of the type of pressure that has been applied in the past, some say it has changed the way Roberts has decided cases. So, it's likely that there have been outside pressures many times before, only not so public.

In any case, this highly public revelation will change the court in a dramatic way. The media and some of the public will find this is license to openly antagonize the justices much more than they already do.

19 posted on 05/03/2022 8:57:38 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: Yo-Yo

Dems don’t give a rip about right or wrong, only winning.

Their immediate threats of violence simply shows they are not worthy to be associated with the rest of us.

Ship them to Cali and Connecticut and give them a small section of NY around Gotham.

The Rest is RED.


20 posted on 05/03/2022 8:58:56 AM PDT by SteelPSUGOP
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