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.
Story comes out yesterday and by nightfall mobs with pre made signs converge on Supreme Court. Leaked criminal disclosure proves inside coordination between leaker(s), Democrat party, and media to undermine 3rd branch of Government.
That is the reason my EX wife voted for Clinton over GHW Bush.
At the age of 24 she was concerned about her ability to get an abortion.
Notice the “EX”
Fortunately, she never became pregnant during our relationship.
Either that or to trigger someone into attacking the conservative justices to create openings SloJoe can fill.
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Wouldn’t be surprised. There’s likely more than a few out there like that lib nutjob that tried to put a hit on Rep. Scalise and others. The Dems know who they are and have likely groomed them for a time like this. All they need is the right ‘nudge’...and away they go.
I’m glad she’s your ex, and she never got fulfill her hateful thoughts.
No doubt some little rat threw protocol out the window so all hell would brake loose and intimidate a Justice to reverse their decision
It also gets the Ukrainian military collapse in the eastern part of that country out of the headlines.
And that’s important for the media, since they’ve been telling us from day 1 that Ukraine is ‘winning’.
This is just another tool to distract from the Biden and handlers and the midterms.
“One thing about Roberts, is he is always concerned about the “integrity of the court”.”
Only when it prevents the Court from enforcing the original meaning of the Constitution. He’s fine with very controversial decisions that impose the Ruling Class morality on the rest of the nation.
The lib leaked it now to galvanize support in Congress for legalizing Roe before the. Midterms. If it had come out in June, there wouldn’t have been enough time.
—> I, personally, don’t know any “abortion is the deciding factor” in voting males
I know many men who will not vote for any pro abortion candidate, so it is a deciding factor for many.
Yep. Criminals.
I mean in the opposite direction.
I should have clarified.
Enormous wag the dog right now. Like nothing else in the world is happening.
The primary reason anyway.
And to turn out votes in midterms. Bill Clinton was just at the White House yesterday…..hmm….
The Court showed it was subject to pressure when Schumer threatened the court, and the court refused to hear the election impropriety case from Texas.
Right now on Bannon’s Warroom:
Liz Yore saying Kamala Harris will speak to Emily’s List, pro-abortion group, tomorrow night
Interesting timing
Ketanji Brown Jackson is not on the Supreme Court yet.
I haven’t read the leaked decision. I was telling my opinion of the abortion issue. If Roe vs Wade does indeed become overturned, I will be a happy camper.
Not sure about that. It will cause a lot of trouble in terms of protests and violence. But I think the leak is also designed to destroy trust in the Supreme Court. Trust between the justices, and trust between them and their staff has been damaged severely by this action.
If the leaker is identified and not disbarred for life the justices will never trust their clerks again. If the leaker is a justice the damage is extremely severe and none of the other justices will trust him/her/it ever again, a pariah on the court.
I think a clerk will be named as the perpetrator and they will be a fanatic about abortion. Willing to sacrifice their career to keep RvsW in place for a while. But also to damage the Supreme Court in any way possible.
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