Posted on 05/03/2022 9:10:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
There are two levels to this story. The first is the absolutely unheard-of fact that a Supreme Court opinion was leaked before the Court officially issued it, something that's incredibly damaging to the institution. The second is that, if this really is the decision that the Court will issue, Justice Alito is 100% correct that Roe v. Wade has no constitutional basis and that, under the Constitution as written, the question of abortion belongs to the individual states.
The news was shocking: Politico reported that it had received a draft of the final opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization:
The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO.
Nor did Politico stop at reporting what the draft purportedly said. Had that happened, I might have been skeptical, saying that this was just a rumor as the Court sought to run a potential decision up the flagpole to see the response. Instead, Politico uploaded the draft, which is already formatted in the normal fashion for Supreme Court opinions. This is the real deal. (Since the cat's out of the bag, I'll include the Scribd transcript at the end of this article.)
Publishing a draft decision must always be wrong because it instantly politicizes the Supreme Court's actions by allowing politicians and members of the public to put pressure on the Court to change its opinion before it becomes final. The SCOTUSblog Twitter account sums up accurately how appalling this is:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
My sense in 2012 was that the Democrats, upon hearing the rumor, let the justices know that the Court would face serious consequences (i.e., court-packing) if it were to proceed with that decision. So the Court reversed course. Perhaps that thinking was behind yesterday's leak.
It’s not real, either.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Court “punts” on this opinion until a better case comes along.
Even though the Constitution makes no mention of abortion, the Court held that it confers a broad right to obtain one. It did not claim that American law or the common law had ever recognized such a right, and its survey of history ranged from the constitutionally irrelevant (e.g., its discussion of abortion in antiquity) to the plainly incorrect (e.g., its assertion that abortion was probably never a crime under the common law).
Alito continues in that vein, savaging the case, and even quotes Laurence Tribe, the fanatically leftist law professor, who said in 1973 that Roe was "not constitutional law" and didn't even try to be. (Tribe, of course, opposes the current decision.)
Ultimately, says Alito, "Roe was egregiously wrong from the start."
The decision does not end abortion in America. Instead, it does what the Court should have done in 1973: it returns the matter to the states. "It is time," writes Alito, "to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives."
Abortion will continue to exist in blue states and be ended or limited in red states. Fifty laboratories of democracy will function, as the Constitution intended (see the 10th Amendment), with abortion being decided according to community norms. Indeed, under that standard and contra Bernie Sanders, one can argue that Congress cannot impose abortion nationwide.
Regarding the claim that the decision is racist because it will affect minorities most, the decision is actually anti-racist. Margaret Sanger, who founded Planned Parenthood, was an ardent eugenicist who yearned to eliminate the "unfit" in America through birth control and abortion. There's a reason Planned Parenthood parks itself in minority neighborhoods.
Year after year, in New York City alone, more Black babies are aborted than born. It's estimated that more than 20 million Black babies have been aborted since 1973. It's a weird "racist" opinion that lays the groundwork for more minority babies to be born rather than fewer.
RE: It’s not real, either.
You mean the news of the leak is fake?
And the two most prominent “Devout Catholics” in the Government are upset because the unfettered right to kill babies has them in a tizzy.
And as an astute Freeper pointed out, between this ruling and the 10th Amendment, abortion will really become a state issue.
In 1900, ALL STATES outlawed abortions.
Roberts said the draft is real.
I mean a Deep State controlled SCOTUS has NO intention of overturning Roe.
This is a ploy to get female ‘Rat voters to forget a cratering economy, Deep State’s very real war on women, the grooming if their kids in schools, soaring inflation...
And then vote ‘Rat cuz...ABORTION.
Uh huh.
Well, my fellow Dem femmes, here’s some news: The Deep State desperate enough to threaten to take away your access to abortion if you vote the wrong way is powerful enough now to do it.
If you want choice, ladies, you’d better vote MAGA.
Or you’ll get what Deep State chooses to give you...AND LIKE IT.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well, he would, wouldn't he...
“I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”
― Ronald Reagan
Adoption is not an alternative to these people. Where are all the religious organizations signing up adoptive volunteers? We need to put our efforts where our mouth is. An adopted child will make its mother feel guilt forever. An aborted one will feel guilt when it’s convenient, just like her ‘choice’.
Then there’s the messiah complex they saw in Obama. He spoke for all those lost in life. Very enticing.
Nothing in the leaked decision prevents Congress from banning abortion nation wide.
This is to fire up their base before the midterms.
I had a professor in college in a government class read the Roe decision and ask liberals in the class to defend each section cited by the justices who authored the ruling. Finally one hard core liberal said I can’t, they had to be on cocaine to come to some of these conclusions.
The professor then asked them in regard to abortion where had the final law on their legality or illegality been before Roe? Lots of blinking libs and no answer and me and another conservative almost simultaneously said in the state due to the 10th Amendment. Bingo, the professor said and where it still should be and will be if Roe is ever overturned.
Consider.
Leaked o dark thirty.
Within
minutes
fence went up around s.c. building.
( as if someone knew leak was coming ? )
Protesters show up at o dark thirty with professional made signs
( as if protesters knew leak was coming and already had signs made ?)
Yesterday court installed brand new Marshal for s.c. security
( as if a politically reliable marshal was going to be needed ?)
White House has detailed statement ready to roll
( as if TalyBiden knew leak was coming ?)
KJB , who has no position on natural rights , is in the batters box
waiting to replace a right or left s.c. judge.
Who always pulls shiftycrap at I dark thirty ?
Difference in the left and the right. The left will threaten to burn it all down if they do not get their way. The left always gets their way, because the alternative is so severe.
The left will always rule. They know it.
The question I would like to have answered is why this is happening now? Roe Vs Wade has been in place since the 1970s and it is only now being reversed?
If I was to put my tinfoil hat on, I might ask if this has something to do with the fact the Dems were on course to get absolutely annihilated in the mid terms thanks to liberal disillusionment over wokery and extremism within the Democratic establishment. Now they have something to galvanise the liberal vote to come out and vote Dem instead of staying home or even vote Republican.
Are the shadowy figures sanctioning one step backwards in order to take two steps forward at a later date?
im a y9 year old guy.
why should i care?
i did not care when all the feathers were flying when this thing came around to begin with!
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