Posted on 05/03/2022 6:21:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Supreme Court will overturn the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade in June, Politico reported Monday night.
The Supreme Court will overturn the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade in June, Politico reported Monday night, with an apparent draft of the majority opinion leaked to the beltway magazine. Never before has a full draft opinion been pre-emptively leaked to the press in the modern history of the court, and it was leaked this week for one reason: to incite violence and bully justices into changing their votes.
“The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision – Planned Parenhood v. Casey – that largely maintained the right,” Politico reported, with conservative Justice Samuel Alito writing the majority opinion drafted in February.
Draft opinions are not final. Justices can and often do change their minds throughout the writing process. The published opinion in Politico will only add fuel to the fire on one of the most politically sensitive topics in the country. Its premature release designed to place undemocratic pressure on justices to bend their opinion in conformity with loud extremist voices already waging insurrectionist threats on the court.
According to Politico, the court’s conservative bloc — Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett — have joined Alito in striking down the nearly five-decade unconstitutional court precedent. The panel’s three leftist justices — Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan — plan to issue a dissent.
“How Chief Justice John Roberts will ultimately vote, and whether he will join an already written opinion or draft his own, is unclear,” the magazine reported.
The notion of an undecided Roberts willing to dissent leaves no room for the court’s conservatives to change their votes if Roe is to be overturned this summer. Even if Politico’s reporting is air-tight and the justices stick to their opinions, the premature leak of the written ruling will undermine the credibility of the court with the appearance of the decision now made political.
It is unclear who leaked the draft opinion due in two months. The case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, contests a Mississippi abortion ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy seen as a direct challenge to the 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade.
The end of Roe has been a nightmare for Democrats who’ve harnessed the court for decades to operate as a super-legislature. Democrats have fought to protect the decision’s standing in every nomination battle, with an increasing virulence waging serial character assassinations on every Republican nominee to the high court as its balance shifted in conservatives’ favor with GOP appointments.
After the successful confirmation of Barrett, who replaced leftist Ruth Bader Ginsburg, tilting the court to a 6-3 conservative majority, Republicans began to prepare for Roe’s end with abortion restrictions that the bench has declined to strike down.
The Supreme Court three times rejected opportunities to block a Texas law banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. In March, Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a near-total ban on the procedure.
Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.
If there were that enough of those, Deep State wouldn’t have to steal elections, would it?
Nothing in the leaked decision calls abortion a state issue. Just saying.
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Why not?
One Supreme Court can overturn a previous Supreme Court. Its always been the case.
This leak has KJB written all over it imho.
I see you are butt hurt about women being called out.
Only women get abortions, and I, personally, don’t know any “abortion is the deciding factor” in voting males. There are tons of women who are. The ones I know are simple minded sluts.
Was Roe v Wade overturned for the Trump v Biden election?...no
Is the timing here suspicious?...yes.
YUP. Maybe this is the Libs alternative to the Mid-Terms election distraction? All along I was thinking it was going to be another COVID version.
Meh. Don’t think this will work to save them either.
“The Only Reason To Leak That SCOTUS Opinion Is To Bully Justices Into Submission”
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I believe it is clear, the reason is to coalesce around court packing and to rally the amoral around Democrats.
Face it, Democrats are losing and they’re not going to put up with it. Republicans have no fight in them and will work with the Democrats.
There is a case before the Court, from Mississippi I believe. There are other cases they have avoided. No one with any knowledge of the inner workings of SCOTUS has said it appears, or is, fake.
Either that or to trigger someone into attacking the conservative justices to create openings SloJoe can fill.
There was a case. The Mississippi law Banning abortion after so many weeks. The SC didn’t just do it on their own.
One thing the left does very well is control the language of the debate. We have to start using this same tactic. I hear too many Republicans using the phrase “Pro Choice”, when we should be calling it “Anti Life.” We have to stop using their term “A woman’s right to choose” and describe it instead as “A woman’s right to kill.”
One thing about Roberts, is he is always concerned about the “integrity of the court”. So I suspect this backfires on the liberals.
I think it’s court packing( before the midterms) as an issue too. Even if this leak isn’t real. It’s a subject the left wants so desperately.
There is nothing in the leaked opinion stating what the vote is/was.
Has anyone mentioned the timing of the leak? 2000 Mules premiers in select theaters and the SCOTUS leak happened at that exact moment to suck the oxygen out of the room.
Court packing & midterms are coming up
This is all political
Based on oral arguments, no secret which way the vote would go on Hobbs case
But why now?
The media obviously has their marching orders, ROE Overturned!
They still have their precious abortion but at state level
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They have no issues, so this is it and they need time to rally their base, troops and mules.
I share your sentiment, so please don’t take this the wrong way, but we need to knock that attitude off. If liberals know how to do anything, they know how to eat a whale. One bite at a time. Let’s take their advice here. Take the win and keep moving forward.
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