Posted on 11/29/2021 5:16:12 AM PST by Scarlett156
When he ran for president in 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump promised to nominate Supreme Court justices who would vote to end the constitutional right to an abortion. During his four years in office, Trump placed three justices – Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett – on the court, cementing a 6-3 conservative majority. With that majority in place, conservatives hope, and liberals fear, that the court will renounce nearly five decades of abortion jurisprudence and overturn the landmark rulings of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which is scheduled for oral argument on Wednesday, the justices have been asked to do just that.
If the court were to overturn Roe and Casey, access to abortion in America would shrink dramatically and immediately. Twenty-one states have laws in place that would ban all or nearly all abortions if Roe and Casey fell. And even if the court does not formally overturn Roe and Casey, a decision weakening those precedents would permit new abortion restrictions, perhaps including bans on some early-stage abortions.
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I hope I don’t sound like I am trivializing abortion, but from the standpoint of Federal oversight, I would like to see cannabis and abortion treated the same — Why should the federal government make a blanket law for these things? It’s not in the Constitution. At the Federal level, there should be no control: Roe v Wade should be overturned, and the cannabis prohibition should also be lifted. The individual states can then decide if they want to control it or not. I believe the states are the right level for each of these topics.
For the record: I oppose abortion and I think all states should decide to ban it. I also oppose cannabis, and I think all states should ban it. But the important thing is that individual states should decide for themselves.
Overturning Roe v. Wade requires character. I doubt that enough SC Justices have it.
Thank you!
They won’t touch democrats sacred cow
Roberts will be too afraid of riots but I’m not sure who the 5th vote will be
At best it’s still 5-4. Roberts will never vote to overturn.
As it should be.
I’m not sure I have much respect for reporting on this since Roe was already effectively negated by Casey. That’s the harder nut to crack.
I think that’s the idea. Just about everything the feds do should be overturned on tenth amendment grounds. And I agree completely on Abortion and Cannabis.
Note how the author assumes abortion to be “a constitutional right” It is no such thing and never has been. The Constitution is written explicitly for the purpose of securing and maintaining the right to life. We will never be able to pay back those whose innocent blood we allowed to be shed, but you can be sure God’s temporal and eternal justice will not sleep on it.
Abortion should always have been a states issue. We already have the heartbeat bill in GA.
I think there are 3 justices who may be willing to overturn “precedent”. The idea of a conservative think tank for judges should be scrapped. Trump picked the people who were pushed the most from the right and it’s clear they aren’t what thry were sold as.
Butt, butt, butt it’s right there in the constitution and BOR. Right next to people being required to get CCWs in a lot of states in order to carry firearms. Right there next to mask and vax mandates authorizations.
Gorsuch and Kavanaugh both stated flat out during confirmation hearings that they considered Roe v. Wade to be “settled law” and wouldn’t vote to overturn it. Didn’t stop FReepers from having orgasms over their selection, declaring “God bless PDJT for KEEPING his campaign pledge to give a pro-life Scalia-like Justice!” and promoting the goofy theory that they’d magically vote the way we wanted anyway because their judicial philosophy was supposedly “originalist”
Comparing the murder of innocent human beings to smoking weed IS trivializing abortion. States do not have the “right” to decide basic human rights. Stephen A. Douglas already tried your “send it back to the states” solution when he argued states had the “right” to determine whether or not human beings can enslave each other. If you read up on Bleeding Kansas you’ll notice that “solution” didn’t work out very well!
Everyone trusted the conservative intelligentsia on justices. The most “conservative” groups were saying these are the best justices. No one has the time to look into this independently. Trump created list of candidates before he was elected and that list came from “Conservative” groups. “No one” trusted Trump on picks (if you’re not I to revisionist history) and they basically said pick these people if you want our support. Trump did as he promised which is why everyone was happy. They trusted the federalist society etc. The failing lies there. Personally, I would be happy with a random citizen but they’ve gotta get passed a leftist Senate.
Pffffft! Like some recent jurors, they won't have the guts to do the right thing.
do the states have the constitutional right to allow murder?
Yes, if they buy the right DA.
I’d consider it more likely that Roberts would vote to overturn Roe than either Gorsuch or Kavanaugh being willing to do so (since both said flat out during their confirmation hearings that they wouldn’t). Roberts is pretty iffy at this point though.
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