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.
To say “the only reason” is short sighted. Reasons are bully juctices, fund raise off leak, rally rat voters, give justification for court packing, ...
Sadly, overturning RvW will not bring an end to abortion in this country.
” to be resolved like most important questions in our democracy: by citizens trying to persuade one another and then voting.”
Scalia
The clear logic and plain language of a brilliant mind.
and of a brilliant document.
Wait till they get their brown shirts/Pantifa in the streets burning chit down.
What exactly can they do to those who vote to overturn?
an apparent draft of the majority opinion leaked to the beltway magazine
Another reason is it would take attention off of Biden’s horrible performance going into the mid terms.
This was my first thought too. An attempt to shame them into reversing their decision and save face.
Does anyone think it is odd that the SCOTUS leak would mean that the court on its own is going back to review a previous decision? My understanding is that some new case would need to be before the court that would cause it to again review a previous decision. For example the court’s separate but equal reading in Plessy vs Ferguson was overturned by another case Brown vs Board of Education. This leak is obviously a last ditch attempt to stem the Democrats bloodbath in November, but to me the whole context of the leak is wrong. I do not think the court on its own would go back to review a previous decision. Something about this smacks of fake news.
And overturning it *WILL* energize the Left like nothing else.
Ending Roe forces politicians to craft laws. They’d rather not have their names on either side of this. Roe was political cover.
Personally, I’ve always thought they take way too long to issue decisions after hearing a case. Bang: nope, the us constitution doesn’t say anything about abortions, so that means it goes to the states or to the people.
See, I issued an opinion in a matter of minutes.
Yup, a big “look squirrel”/shiny object from all the messes.
It never would have, and it still won’t. It will bring abortion back to a state’s rights issue, where it belongs.
"If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone." - Michael Corleone
The disloyal opposition has already succeeded once; it would not be beyond them to assassinate two or three more, whatever is necessary to revert the overturning.
Remember, in this world nothing is ever settled until it is settled the way the left wants it settled. Overturning Roe is simply an impediment to the fulfillment of their agenda, as far as they are concerned.
I will be at all surprised when we learn the FBI/DOJ ran the operation to steal the draft opinion from the SCOTUS email or file system.
Precisely, and many fickle women will follow the other lemmings.
Imagine your sole reason for voting is to be able to kill your baby.
Same chicks are mask & vaccine Karens...
There's other bleepary afoot...
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