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.
I misunderstood your post. Mea Culpa FRiend.
It’s not your fault. I should have made it obvious. Sometimes I don’t write everything I’m thinking and it becomes murky in writing. :)
No, Swallwell went on and on earlier today about how this can be used to rally the troops for the midterms. This was a political move — kinda like BeijingBiden claiming that he can eliminate student debt.
#metoo!
Consider.
Frame and remove a conservative judge , here comes KJB.
If it’s a left Judge, or someone in their office, and a judge is removed hello KJB.
Why replace one left judge with another left judge ?
Simple, all the current judges support natural rights
KJB , in front of congress, God, and the citizens, stated she has no position on natural rights.
Get a judge that rejects natural rights, you have a judge that rejects the very foundation of our government.
Our country would be
fundamentally changed.
Does that sound familiar ?
Does that ring a bell ?
( hint: obamanation )
LOL
Trump kept saying: It doesn’t matter if you hate me or would rather have some one else, I MUST be your choice because I will add conservative justices to the Supreme Court. For that reason alone you must vote for me.
Trump was proven right.
this is just so much BS, the justices already decided, just refining the majority opinion.
Amazing how the democrats had “protesters” arrive at the court building so quickly as if they knew the document was to be released.... kinda like the White House / obama / biden had the colored lights turned on when the supreme court ruled on same sex marriage.
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