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Home Front: Politix
Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, 'leaked draft opinion' shows
2022-05-03
[Politico] 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.
She weeps at the leaked draft, not the actual decision.
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."
Chief Justice makes no comment. Was it a clerk who leaked the document, or was it an actual sitting Justice ?

Interesting times:


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Posted by:Besoeker

#44  The left will go ballistic against "Conservative" members of The Supreme Court, especially Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.

Remember who voted for said Justices? Sens. Murkowski and Collins.

This is going to be fun to watch.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2022-05-03 21:29  

#43  "We're from the child groomers, and we are here to help!"
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-05-03 18:22  

#42  The left makes lots of miscalculations. This time around, they may have energized their (shrinking) base, but reading Roberts' statement regarding the leak, they may have pushed him right in the bargain.

The question I have re: packing the court. Why would the current SCOTUS find any such effort to be constitutional? They might if it was an actual amendment ratified by the required number of states. Short of that, I don't see it.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-05-03 18:01  

#41  Regardless of who leaked the draft, the left is having a hair-on-fire response. Pocahontas is apoplectic. Year's ago, this should have been decided in the states; not by SCOTUS. If abortion is a state's rights issue, Shouldn't gay marriage also have been a state's rights issue? Will the DOJ and the FBI infiltrate and investigate the growing crowd of potential pro-abortion insurrectionists at SCROTUS?
Posted by: JohnQC   2022-05-03 17:18  

#40  Elenskyy looking at today's USA headlines:

"Oh, shit."
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-05-03 16:54  

#39  The bee has the leaker

Source Of SCOTUS Leak Found To Be Swedish Supreme Court Janitor Hildur Clintonheim
Posted by: Beavis   2022-05-03 15:44  

#38  ^ We've gotta protect ..uh..the thing.
Posted by: Frank G   2022-05-03 15:10  

#37  Abortionists must be absolutely stoked that the greatest orator and politician in human history Joseph Biden is the front man.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-05-03 14:59  

#36  Remember the Unborn!
Posted by: Chesney Bucket9949   2022-05-03 14:52  

#35  Was this the first release by Biden's Disinformation Bureau?
Posted by: Bugs McGurque4586   2022-05-03 14:38  

#34  Secondaries are going to be epic.

"My Body My Choice!"

Well, that's fucking interesting, man."

-puts jalapeno poppers and hot wings on the smoker, lights some sparklers for the kids-
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-05-03 14:01  

#33  Who is Amit Jain for $500.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735   2022-05-03 13:42  

#32  Speculation that someone at the Government Printing Office leaked the draft opinion from February. An archivist is also possible.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-05-03 13:34  

#31  ...Margaret Sanger founder what is now call Planned Parenthood was a real racist and xenophobe.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-05-03 12:38  

#30  What have the LSD's learned after 45 years?
Obviously nothing....!

Abortion statistically kills more LSD's voters than conservatives.Yet they continue to fight to have on demand. Which has taken OVER 3.2 millon African-American babies alone.

Abortion has killed 100,000+++times more blacks than the KKK/Democrats has and the Democrats did, it the help of Black Reverends and legally according law.

Anyone looking up the demographics of abortion will quickly see the data shows this.

Posted by: NN2N1   2022-05-03 12:29  

#29  "Let the RIOTS mostly peaceful protests and INTIMIDATION Censored discussion Commence!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2022-05-03 12:18  

#28  Some have speculated that the leak was timed with the '200 mules' movie release. Haven't seen it and don't know the movie would be that critical to the Left that they would have to leak a SCOTUS decision...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2022-05-03 12:15  

#27  
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-05-03 11:55  

#26  The leak gives SCROTUS an easy out. They can decide that the leak makes deciding impossible.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-05-03 11:50  

#25  Regardless of the merits of Alito's draft opinion, the leak is an absolute catastrophe for the operation of the federal judicial system. I suspect that a whole bunch of federal judges this morning are conversing with their clerks about the judges' confidentiality expectations. What's next? Clerks writing letters to the editor explaining how the judge they're clerking for went wrong on a given case?
Posted by: Matt   2022-05-03 11:43  

#24  ^-- not until I move out of WA. If overturned I expect Washington state to allow abortions up to +6 months after birth (if not +6 years).
Posted by: CrazyFool   2022-05-03 11:38  

#23  Life is in the blood. When the pumping starts it is a live human not a lump. We are going to become, at least, two countries (soon i hope).
Posted by: irish rage boy   2022-05-03 11:31  

#22  #18 Noticed that. It's all political expediency for the Left.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2022-05-03 11:30  

#21  I remember when President Bush was going to overturn Roe vs Wade. Then it was President Trump. Funny how it may happen when a Democrat is president.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2022-05-03 11:29  

#20  I had a Catholic friend tell me the other day that he was praying that his long..... "departed parents were praying for his shoulder surgery."

I made no comment, backed off a step or two, and attempted to steer the conversation toward his post-op therapy and the weather in Georgia.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-05-03 11:02  

#19  There are a lot of liberal/progressive Catholics…
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-05-03 10:56  

#18  #15 they are no longer called “birthing person” either
Posted by: Beavis   2022-05-03 10:39  

#17  Going to be interesting in my state. It's blue but also heavily Hispanic/Roman Catholic. The socialists have been OK with punting the issue with the prior SCOTUS status. Now they'll have to commit. Not going to help them in November.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-05-03 09:47  

#16  If it goes back to the states, how many states will 100% repeal abortion?

How many blue citizens will leave red states because of this?
Posted by: ruprecht   2022-05-03 09:31  

#15  Now wait a moment. A "Woman's Right"? I thought they just confirmed a SCOTUS judge who couldn't define what a woman is.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-05-03 09:22  

#14  If a justice leaked it (not a clerk) they should be impeached
Posted by: Slenter Panda4300   2022-05-03 08:53  

#13  I think this "leak" was a hail Mary for the demoncrats in November. They were going to get pummeled, but this will pull a few rotting carcasses across the finish line by riling the base.
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-05-03 08:12  

#12  #3 Very well said and referenced, many thanks.
Posted by: Cesare   2022-05-03 08:07  

#11  Haven't we had enough DC leaks to know to wait.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-05-03 07:49  

#10  Flip the coin. If a "leak" said SCROTUS was going to invalidate the First and Second amendments, the right would cluck a bit and do nothing. A few hapless "protesters" would get the Jan 6 treatment.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-05-03 07:37  

#9  @#7, last night when the news broke and almost immediately protesters showed up at SCOTUS I commented that this was all set up in advance by the Left.

A clerk did this, with or without the tacit approval of a justice. When identified, he, she, or it should be disbarred. Sadly, the Democratzis will likely provide some level of protection.
Posted by: Too Old To Work   2022-05-03 07:27  

#8  #3 - spot on. Back to the States. Moloch is pissed.
Posted by: Frank G   2022-05-03 06:40  

#7  Mail - SCOTUS is set to OVERTURN Roe v. Wade according to leaked draft majority opinion that calls the landmark 1973 decision legalizing abortion nationwide 'egregiously wrong from the start'

Demonstrators take to the streets in D.C. as planned.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-05-03 06:17  

#6  Ref #3: I believe the court may have decided that the US Constitution contains no "right" to an abortion.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-05-03 06:07  

#5  There is a report that a clerk for Sotomayor leaked it.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2022-05-03 01:46  

#4  This "leak" is an attempt to pressure the court before the formal decision and opinion are fully decided. It's a blatantly political and despicable move by the left.

If a clerk leaked it, their law license should be forfeited, as well as their job, and any and all criminal and civil penalties must be pursued. If, God forbid, a justice leaked it, they must be impeached.
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158   2022-05-03 01:30  

#3  Wrong headline. Overturning Roe v. Wade, not "abortion rights". All this does is send it back to the states and the legislative branch (Congress), which is where it should have been settled long ago, instead of arrogating it to the federal bench.

Its called representative government. And places like NY and California will not see any restric5ttions other than the ones they vote in, same with Texas and Mississippi. A US is a republic that uses a Representative Democracy.

If you don't like it, elect representatives and change it.

Roe v. Wade is completely taken apart in that so-called draft. Its as wrong and defective a judgement as Plessy v. Ferguson, Dredd Scott, Or Pace v. Anderson. Or if you want a gay rights reference of a wrong decision reversed later, of the same vintage, try Baker v. Nelson.

Defective decisions can and should be reversed.
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158   2022-05-03 01:27  

#2  Let's abort all of our babies and illegally import millions of foreigners instead.". The Deranged Leftists
Posted by: Bugs McGurque4586   2022-05-03 01:16  

#1  Biden's pick of Judge Ketanji Brown to sit on the Supreme court was the administration's first betrayal of the process. The leaked draft decision was the second betrayal.

Retiring Justice Stephen Breyer has nothing to lose. My guess however, is Sotomayor or Kagan. I'd be shocked to learn it was a clerk.

Chief Justice Roberts is likely attempting to find the memory hole exit.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-05-03 00:10  

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