Posted on 05/06/2022 8:20:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Bravo to Justice Samuel Alito for drafting an opinion anyone can understand and that a majority will agree with. Alito confines himself to short words and simple sentences while conveying profound arguments. Perhaps the most profound statement he makes involves his acknowledgement that abortion law should be made at the state level.
It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives. “The permissibility of abortion, and limitations, upon it, are to be resolved like most important questions in our democracy: by citizens trying to persuade one another and then voting. Cashed, 505 U. S. at 979 (Scalia, J., concurring in the judgement in part and dissenting in part). That is what the Constitution and the rule of law demand.
Humility in Washington is rarer than hens’ teeth; and needed more than ever. Not only doesn’t Alito tell the state what can and cannot be done, he looks to the case in question and almost seems annoyed that the bureaucracy would dare the court to reverse Roe and Casey.
…The State of Mississippi asks us to uphold the constitutionality of a law that generally prohibits an abortion after the fifteenth week of pregnancy -- several weeks before the point at which a fetus is now regarded as “viable” outside the womb. In defending this law, the State’s primary argument is that we should reconsider and overrule Roe and Casey and once again allow each State to regulate abortion as its citizens with. On the other side, respondents and the solicitor general ask us to reaffirm Roe and Casey, and they contend that the Mississippi law cannot stand if we do so. Allowing Mississippi to prohibit abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, they argue, “would be no different than overruling Casey and Roe entirely.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
At last...and hopefully it will come to fruition...that it is a state matter, has always been and will always be.
Harry Blackmun, who penned the Roe v Wade decision, used to refer to it as “My Law” as he proudly condemned millions of babies to death. Yes, he was PROUD of it.
May Samuel Alito receive greater glory for this decision although I’m sure he won’t get it from the media or Hollywood.
As a side note to this thread, please consider the following.
Bearing in mind that this is a very important election year after an allegedly stolen presidential election, I understand a Trump rally in Pennsylvania today featuring the recently released “2000 Mules” movie, the Supreme Court’s scandalous decision in Roe v. Wade is traceable back to the ill-conceived 17th Amendment (17A) imo.
Patriots need to work start working with their new, Trump-endorsed state lawmakers in 2023 to repeal the 17A. The 16th Amendment can disappear too.
Insights welcome.
Whoever leaked the draft neglected to leak the draft of a dissent.
They need to issue the opinion in the next few days. Otherwise, the next few months we will experience riots in the streets, Roberts had better take notice.
I’m not sure which person this happened under would have been better, Trump or Biden. Under Trump the left woild be in mental institutes (otherwise known as congressional training institutes) had it happened under his term. But it happening under Biden is pretty awesome too. The left getting a virtual huge slap,in the face while they are “running” (aka ruining) the country. Thr left don’t wanna erupt in riots while their beloved .elder leader is in office, because they don’t want it to negatively affect an already dismal display of leadership, so they are caught between a rock and a hard place
Anyone? Does the author really think Biden has the cognitive ability to understand the opinion? What about the vast majority of low-IQ teachers in America? Or the 23% of moron Democrat voters that we see as results in poll after poll? I could go on, but at the end of the day, 50% of Americans have below average intelligence.
the 19th ...
“The permissibility of abortion, and limitations, upon it, are to be resolved like most important questions in our democracy:....”
It’s a Republic..... dumbazz. What is wrong with these people.
I heard a few Dems make specious claims the decision will somehow target gay marriage and lead to segregation in the classroom.
If Trump’s SCOTUS appointments lead to overturning Roe, prolifers and conservatives owe him a debt of gratitude.
Bttt
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Nobody actually cares about the opinion. Just the score.
The article does even better:
“If abortion isn’t in the constitution and that means that it’s a state issue, couldn’t that also apply to environmental law? Health care? Employment? Does the federal government really have the right to rule on every pond and puddle? Why does a bureaucrat decide the mileage and type of automobile I drive?”
It’s time to reverse Wickard v. Filburn, the constitutional basis of the tyrannical Administrative State.
The only way they could force it upon the nation and have them pay for it too was to have it at the federal level. They know they lose if it goes to the states and the people vote on it with the exception of rat strongholds
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