Posted on 07/29/2022 7:31:58 AM PDT by libstripper
The old news of the leak of Justice Alito’s draft opinion last May overruling Roe v. Wade has now been swamped by the new news of the Supreme Court’s final opinion a month later.
That final opinion, almost identical to Alito’s draft and joined by five of the nine Justices, held that Roe was wrong. As a matter of fact and law, the Constitution never mentions, alludes to, or implies a Constitutional right to abortion.
(Excerpt) Read more at theaspenbeat.com ...
If the leaker was a Republican there would be Congressional hearings on this “act of treason that undermines democracy”.
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With Lizard Cheney leading the charge.
“Anyone got any proof? Got one shred of actual evidence?
If not, it’s just garbage rumors and gossip”
The thing about blackmail of public officials is that it does not work if everyone knows about it!
So—by your brilliant analysis, no public official could ever be blackmailed.
;-)
EPSTEIN,,,
That’s a BINGO !
When it leaked I suspected Roberts himself was the leaker. There will be no prosecutions or reprimands. The fix is in-again, for the upper class elite snobs
That’s my best guess as well. Roberts leaked it.
He's more of a D than a P.
Deep State versus Patriot.
How many times did he take the Lolita flight to that island?
Yeah, but everytime it's a surprise.
I agree that these wild accusations about Roberts’ supposed dark past, with no evidence, are creepy.
I doubt any one of the actual Supremes is the culprit, but a staffer who is the culprit should face the music. It is quite a feather in the caps of those who worked there, and someone doesn’t deserve it - big time.
OK, I’m going to flip the script on you.
Roberts is a weasel, guaranteed. And maybe they “have something on him”, but the alternative - weasels gotta weasel - is also plausible.
Roberts’s final concurrence states what he wanted done - uphold the Mississippi law and not overturn Roe. He needed one flip of the five who signed the Alito draft in February. He even had a target - Kegs Kavanaugh.
That makes Roberts himself suspect #1 in the leak.
MY question is: “Do we want him exposed?”
If he is exposed, he has to resign, or be impeached and removed.
And if THAT happens - before January 3, 2023 - welcome Chief Justice Merrick Garland.
Be careful what you wish for.
Best I have read is from this post:
To: LS; KC Burke
KC Burke: Do you have a current guess as to who the leaker was or who the leaker worked for?
LS: Yes. I’m almost sure it was Sotomayor’s clerk ...
Matt Wolking spotted the following linkage and posted a Twitter Tweet about it on May 2:
“A person called Amit Jain clerks for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. As a Yale student, Jain blasted Yale for supporting Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination. Jain was quoted in a 2017 Politico piece by Josh Gerstein. Today, Gerstein published the draft SCOTUS opinion on Roe.”
If you read Amit Jain’s “micro biography,” it reads like a recipe for “How To Turn A Bright, Malleable Immigrant From India Into a Left-Wing Lunatic.” As a law student, he clerked for various “projects” that are near and dear to the shriveled hearts of the socialist left: eliminating cash bonds for violent felons, etc.
22 posted on 6/27/2022, 10:52:45 AM by Philo1962 (This billboard space for rent)
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Wonder no more.
Because he wants what polls say a huge majority of Americans want - widely available abortions with a first-trimester limit, and therefore a majority decision saying that a first-trimester limit law (like Mississippi's) does not contradict Roe is his solution.
Then out came some pictures that looked VERY GAY!!
Roberts has long said that he does not want the Court’s “image” to be sullied by appearing to act politically. What this means in practice is that Roberts anticipates the likely press reaction to a decision and votes accordingly. Since the press is 95% leftist, and Roberts doesn’t want to rile up the press, Roberts always takes the leftist side on high-profile cases like Dodd. In trying to avoid the impression of voting politically, he votes politically. Funny how that works.
Yup,
Tarantino Fan here.
I think they would have had some type of evidence if it had been a Sotomayor clerk.
If that is true, they aren’t looking hard, or already know and are trying to bury it. That implicates Roberts anyway.
I don't want to be a contrarian on this issue, but I believe that "constitutional rights" are those that are inherent in ourselves, that is, endowed by our Creator. They don't rely on others to provide them.
To your question, I'd say that the 9th amendment opens up a box for personal behaviors:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.The focus of the Constitution is to lay out what the federal government can do and not do. It is not a document of what the people can do and not do (other than the Bill of Rights amendments that followed ratification of the Constitution itself).
The reason that abortion does not rise to the level of a Constitutional right is that it compels another person to perform the abortion. If a person were to use a contraceptive, a "day after" pill, or some other abortifacient in the medically safe timeframe, that would be a personal choice covered by the 9th amendment. Once a doctor or other service provider becomes involved, then it becomes open to regulation the appropriate governing bodies.
Side note: I once asked the question "Fertilization does not equal implantation; implantation is not guaranteed (not including post-implantation miscarriages). So, what is it called when a fertilized ovum is naturally flushed from a woman's body unimplanted?" The point of my question (which went unanswered) was that if life begins at conception, then what is flushed naturally from a woman's body? I didn't mean it to be a trick question, but I did want to explore the difference between a zygote and an embryo, and what is it when a zygote is flushed naturally (with the woman unaware) versus when it is flushed by a morning-after pill.
Regarding alternative lifestyle behaviors, that, too, would fall under the 9th amendment rights retained by the people. However, the subject of marriage becomes a public act, and as such is regulated by the state as to who can perform marriages, what responsibilities and benefits derive from being married, and who can be married. Again, marriage does not rise to the level of a Constitutional right when another person is involved in performing the marriage.
Anyway, that's my "hot take" on the matter.
-PJ
The Court has been compromised since the 17th Amendment passed...
With out a check and balance on the Senate, the courts by default are also impacted in a negative way.
I am not surprised that we have no result yet in such an investigation. Let’s assume my prior post is indeed the course of the culprit. Only the Journalist who published it would be the easy person to compromise the leaker and since they won’t and cannot be compelled to so testify, the leaker is only betrayed through his own weakness or misstep of which have seen nothing.
The investigators have to go into very elaborate research to catch this one, IMHO.
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