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Politico: SCOTUS Striking Down Roe v. Wade According to Leak
Do we trust Politico? Can we trust a leak from the most leak-free branch of the government? Here’s their breaking story:
The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO.
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 Parenthood v. Casey – that largely maintained the right. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes.
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” he writes in the document, labeled as the “Opinion of the Court.” “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
This is all very, very odd. The Supreme Court is famed for not leaking decisions before they are officially announced. In the past, there hasn’t been even a hint of which way a pending case may break. If the leak is accurate, it violates a sacrosanct tradition which will damage the court’s reputation and congenial relations between the justices and their staff.
The 98-page draft allegedly came “from a person familiar with the court’s proceedings in the Mississippi case along with other details supporting the authenticity of the document.”
One Alito quote reads: “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.” The leaker claims Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett agree with Alito.
If the leak is genuine and Roe v. Wade will be overturned, I think this helps the conservative side, at least slightly. It lets some hot air out of the balloon before the official announcement, lessening any possible midterm blowback. Far, far more importantly, it will save babies’ lives.
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#3 would be awesome
Yes, that’s the way it should be handled – the President (as head of the Executive Branch) refuses to do anything that does not have explicit Congressional authorization and direction.
Unfortunately, the siren song of dictatorial power is almost always too powerful to resist.
I understand the reluctance of individual legislators to take a stand by voting, but it does seem weird for leaders of the legislative branch to actively encourage the executive branch to take power away from the legislative branch. Of course maybe the fact that legislators don’t want to vote on something for fear of alienating voters is a signal that maybe the subject is something the government (via the legislature), and particularly the federal Congress, should not be trying to regulate or control. Leave it to the people. What a concept!
I know, we could have 2 justices per state, and let each state legislature confirm them. Then they could meet in Washington, deliberate, and vote on legislation. We’ll call it “Senate 2.0.”
Yes he can. Here it is:
All Regulations of the Executive Branch not explicitly written into statute by Congress are hereby rescinded.
Done
There is one thing that John Roberts could do to have this backfire on the leaker. Roberts would make it a 6-3 majority.
You’ve never heard of the Administrative Procedures Act, have you?
Do you remember that time the Senate security guy (James Wolfe) leaked the Carter Page FISA document to his reporter girlfriend? Two-month sentence.
Nice use of “viability” standard.
Chuck Schumer is a pile of excrement. His comments are as vile as any the Marxist Democrats have uttered.
I don’t even know, but I believe you.
Which Democrat is scandalized by the leak? Has anyone heard of one?
That is truly sad. It is terrible when Republicans buy into the Trump Big Lie. It is also terrible when not a single Democrat has denounced this leak. A plague on both their houses.
Not even Joe Manchin stood up. From Politico at https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/03/congress-supreme-court-abortion-reactions-00029682
“Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.)
“‘The filibuster is the only protection we have in democracy,’ Manchin said. ‘I’m not going to comment on a leak from the Supreme Court.'”
You know, you don’t need to sugar-coat it.
BTW, I agree.
Which lie was that again?
Seriously, I don’t know what you think the lie was.
“The election was rigged.”
“The election was stolen.”
“Illegally cast or counted votes exceeded the Biden margin of victory in swing states.”
“The voting machines were insecure.”
“The voting machines were hacked.”
“Fraudulent votes flipped swing states.”
Some of those things are demonstrable truths. Some have been demonstrated.
What was the Big Lie, Gary?
guys, guys, guys….
This isn’t about Trump or the election.
Please stop.
Have you seen, or are you going to watch, 2000 Mules?
BTW, I suspect that Gary hasn’t and won’t.
Sorry. Every now and then I lose self-control. Head-exploding brought on by Gary’s TDS.
I held back. Didn’t want to destroy my reputation as a lady by calling him a
I agree! Down with Republicans! Especially those of the Kinzinger/Romney/Cheney faction!
And not write anything.
I don’t know what kind of administrative authority Roberts has as Chief, but if able he should fire all 36 clerks. Is it fair? Of course not, it would be grossly unfair. But it would sure send a message.
I dunno, the one who actually did it would still get hired by MSNBC or something, while all the others would just be out of a job, and worse.
Unless they were given immunity for anything that might accidentally happen to the perp.
You know, I’m no longer in favor of the current thing.
I’m outraged by the current thing.
Don’t think of it as giving away power, think of it as giving away responsibility.
Exactly. Voting for or against actual stuff is hard. You might lose re-election, and then what are you g0oign to do for an income?
Much easier to vote for the “good stuff for people” bill and then blame problems on the bureaucrats.
It gives them more time to focus on being reelected.
I guess it’s an opinion, but Brown was decided in favor of individualism, which isn’t so revolutionary. This decision, if it becomes a decision, rehabilitates the 9th and 10th Amendments. In law school you learn that those two amendments don’t count for much at all. In fact, the the Multi-state version of the bar exam, the test prep people tell you that any answer on the multiple choice section that calls up the 9th or 10th amendments will be a wrong answer because those were considered dead law.
The chief justice has no real power that any other justice doesn’t have. As a courtesy he has a few administrative perks and that’s about it.
Abortion is the Holy Sacrament of the Left. On my way home from the doctor this afternoon, I drove by an impromptu demonstration in favor of Roe, with all the usual signage. “We’ll never go back”. “No back-alley abortions” with the coat hanger drawing, and all that other crap. Our state Dictator attended a pro-abortion rally this afternoon. Washington already has one of the most lenient abortion laws in the nation, and I expect our heavily-DemocRat legislature to make it even more lenient at their next legislative session.
Last week, we got the news that Planned Parenthood plans a new clinic right on the Washington-Idaho border, to provide services to all those Idaho women who can’t get abortions in their own state. Probably with our taxpayer money.
Lastly, I would suggest that we cease immediately using the term “pro-choice”. Use pro-abortion. Do not use their language.
Same with “right to choose”. If you believe in abortion, why are you unwilling to say exactly what you are choosing?
Those aren’t the only examples. I once saw a bumper sticker saying, “If you don’t like abortion, don’t get one.” Well, idiots, if you don’t like handguns, don’t buy one! And don’t interfere with my “right to choose”.