Posted on 06/13/2022 5:09:53 PM PDT by T Ruth
The attempted assassination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh makes it abundantly clear that Chief Justice John Roberts is playing with fire in refusing to issue the Court’s majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case that could potentially overturn Roe v. Wade. The potential for someone to make an attempt on a justice’s life was predictable once the draft majority opinion, in a shocking move, was leaked—but the threat appears more serious in the wake of a deranged person having arrived at Kavanaugh’s home with the stated intention, and with weapons in tow, to kill him.
It is hard to imagine the devastating effect upon our already polarized society, its institutions, and the Constitution itself if someone were to murder a justice in cold blood and then reap the following rewards for the assassination:
Because Supreme Court rulings aren’t final until released, a 5-4 ruling to overturn Roe would immediately become a 4-4 opinion, thereby leaving Roe on the books.
The president who would get to replace the murdered justice would be Joe Biden, who has repeatedly said he is firmly committed to keeping Roe in place.
The Senate that would get to confirm Biden’s nominee would be the current Democratic-controlled one, and the Democratic Party is adamantly committed to upholding Roe.
In short, an assassination could lead to Roe being upheld rather than overturned in the short term, Biden and his Democratic allies being able to replace the murdered justice with one of Biden’s choosing ahead of the midterm elections, and Roe remaining a fixture in the constitutional firmament in the long term.
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It would be far easier and simpler for Roberts merely to release the majority opinion now and release the dissents later ....
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It would have been a 2 for 1 if the attempt succeeded. A fairly conservative justice eliminated and a reason to push more un-Constitutional gun laws.
It has been tradition not to release controversial decisions until the end of the current session.
So July frist
Then civil war.
A murdered Supreme Court Justice replaced by the opposite ideological Senate and President and subsequent major legal decisions might be the tipping point.
Pray it never happens.
Roberts is owned by someone. Not sure who.
My money is on the last day possible right before the Fourth of July.
They do Thursday decisions at the end so I would not rule out June 30th.
Roberts and wife illegally adopted their two Irish-born children, and the Communist Party USA has his gonads in a vice. It’s why he flip-flopped on unconstitutional Obamacare and other decisions. The coward is trying to thread the needle again with the Dobbs case and overturning Roe, a decision as evil as Dred Scott declaring slaves are property.
Like when no one can afford to go anywhere because they have maxed out their credit and have a zero balance in their bank account(s) due to the astronomical gas prices and trickle down food prices and nonexistent electric car inventories???????
Don’t tell anybody, but the owner’s initials are BHO.
When the leak hit tradition went out the window. It is outrages Robert didn’t release the ruling before now. I am convinced he allowed the Justices and their families to be put in danger in the hopes one will flip.
The original plan (for release) was after they had exited the DC area... Probably...
Which is why the communists had their agents leak it early...
Sneak attack!
Maximize the time to escalate the frenzy of all 40-million of the american communists so that, after it is issued and the thousands of bloody riots die down, they will have a 2-3 more conservative SCOTUS seats to fill before 2024...
I’d issue it the last day, after everyone was safely out of town
Himself.
He’s a leftist, not a conservative that has been somehow cowed by the left. (A conservative fights hard against the left.)
Scalia.
I really wish these bloggers would learn how things operate before they print idiocy like this.
The Chief Justice doesn’t decide when to release opinions.
Opinions are released when a majority of justices have signed on to it AND all dissenting and concurring opinions are done.
Roberts cares not a wit for the Constitution.
Obama only needed one.
-PJ
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