Posted on 06/26/2022 4:25:34 AM PDT by cotton1706
Imagine being the manager of a Planned Parenthood clinic in a red state with an abortion trigger law this morning. In one fail swoop, the Supreme Court Dobbs decision not only stripped women of the fundamental right to reproductive freedom you have spent a lifetime championing, but it literally put you out of business. It must be so depressing, but you can still hold your head high, knowing that no matter how bad the past 24 hours have been for you, it’s nothing compared to sense of humiliating defeat Dobbs has visited upon ‘True Conservative’ Nevertrumpers.
For the Nevertrumper, there’s nowhere to hide. Everyone knows that this never would have happened without Donald Trump and there’s just no escaping the embarrassing reality that you’ve been absurdly wrong all along. A few have tried to rationalize the truth with “it doesn’t matter” pieces. The most embarrassing of which includes Kevin Williamson who wrote a piece in National Review arguing that Trump just “got lucky” with his SCOTUS picks, claiming that a “well trained monkey” could have duplicated Trump’s successful remaking of this country’s entire jurisprudence. You won’t be surprised to learn that Kevin is so butt-hurt by Dobbs that he called you a “rage monkey” if you think Trump has anything to do with any of this.
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Has Bush #43 commented on the victory yet? His Alito appointment was a key to the decision.
If it was so easy, how come no Republican since 1973 has managed to do it?
No, the rage monkeys here are the NeverTrumpers who can’t bear to admit how wrong they were - about everything.
It was indeed....the Alito appointment we all but FORCED on him after he tried to stick us with Harriet Myers.
And 41 deserves credit for Thomas—though perhaps more credit to the confirmation hearings cauterized him, and perhaps the influence of Scalia—thumbs up to Reagan.
All four of those presidents deserve at least a little credit, but Trump got the ball across the line—the Bushes effectively prevented regress, which is something.
And Merrick Garland, how did he vote? Oh wait, NeverTrumper, Turtle Mitch, deserves some credit, too.
Yes.
Alito was chosen to write the opinion...and the 4 others were not excluded in converting it to words.
Could have stopped right there. Williamson, once a brilliant, concise writer, has despoiled himself in the quest to smear Trump.
Williamson is now a joke, a clown, and a buffoon topped only by the sad musings of Jonah Goldberg.
All of the useless NeverTrumpers are now busy flogging for the Ukraine war, what a bunch of a-holes.
I think it was a concerted effort by republican establishment to give us a good judge and then a waffler so roe would never be overturned. Knowing what we know now, it just stretches the imagination that other presidents couldn’t have easily nominated known prolife judges. Yep G Bush hasn’t commented on scotus. Sorry I ever defended him in the past
Personally I don’t think most establishment Republicans including both Bushes are really pto-life, they paid lip service to it and threw conservatives a bone every now and then, otherwise they wouldn’t have given us Souter and Harriet Myers, John Roberts is marginal in my opinion, yes they gave us Alito and Thomas, but they balanced that with bad picks and it’s not just the Supreme Court it’s all Federal Judges
Our local news is saying the vote was 5-4. For two days I’ve heard 6-3. What is true?
6-3.
The News Misleadia has taken to lying outright, these days.
Roberts being the waffler that he is, voted with the majority to uphold the Mississippi law BUT tried to narrow the decision so as not to overturn Roe. He voted for the former but against the latter.
And credit Ruth Bader Ginsburg for dying in the nick of time for Trump to replace her. She would have been wise to retire under Obama as her health was already in decline, but no, she wanted to be replaced by the first woman president, who had a 99.9% chance of winning, don’t you know.
Such hubris and probably my most satisfying moment of Trump’s presidency was when he got to replace her to the shrieks and wails of the Left who were desperately trying to keep her frail body breathing for just a few more precious weeks.
“Our local news is saying the vote was 5-4. For two days I’ve heard 6-3. What is true?”
As I understand it, 6-3 was on the actual question of the case, that is, on the Mississippi law. In that, Roberts concurred but he did not want to completely overturn the Roe and Casey precedents.
So it was as 5-4 to overturn Roe and Casey.
I'm not sure you can split a vote like that.
Roberts ... pffft!
My understanding is that the ruling on the Mississippi court case was 6-3 (including Roberts in this decision) which, basically, upheld the Mississippi abortion law.
Then the vote to overturn Roe v Wade was 5-4 (which, in this case, Roberts voted NOT to overturn).
So, essentially, both results were correct.
Agin, this is only my understanding ... YMMV ...
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