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Being reported the Supreme Court has voted to strike down Roe v. Wade
AZRedhawk44:
T.O.M. called it. The Left will be calling for packing the court over the summer.
I'm particularly intrigued by this though (if true):
--- Quote ---Liberal justices seem likely to take issue with Alito’s assertion in the draft opinion that overturning Roe would not jeopardize other rights the courts have grounded in privacy, such as the right to contraception, to engage in private consensual sexual activity and to marry someone of the same sex.
“We emphasize that our decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right,” Alito writes. “Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.”
Alito’s draft opinion rejects the idea that abortion bans reflect the subjugation of women in American society. “Women are not without electoral or political power,” he writes. “The percentage of women who register to vote and cast ballots is consistently higher than the percentage of men who do so.”
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source: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473
I'm not sure I like the notion of the Court discriminating between various un-enumerated rights having greater or lesser standing. Or singling them out.
All in all, I like Alito's alleged decision here. I consider this a 10th Amendment issue. Nothing in the Constitution addresses abortion. The several States are then empowered to address the issue, or not, as is their prerogative. With State lines being largely irrelevant due to air and car travel, one just needs access to a neighboring State which offers access to abortion in order to sate one's need for the service.
Leave it in the "Laboratories of Democracy." It'll get ironed out over several generations. Alito is correct to cite the variety of State level legislation on the issue, prohibiting it. Though it's unlikely the counter-argument is supported by corresponding deliberate legislation which supports abortion. A proper rebuttal to his argument would be to cite the absence of similar legislation, per time period covered of each State proscription, as a ratio. I.E. from 1800 to 1860, 33% of States had laws prohibiting abortion while 67% had no such law, making the practice legal (obviously this is a made up statistic here). I still must fundamentally side with the notion of that which is not expressly prohibited, MUST BE expressly tolerated. Including abortion.
Bogie:
As someone who has to deal daily with clueless people who know that they are SO much smarter than all those horrible deplorables, I'm sort of hoping that they actually declare some sort of open war. With what I'm hearing from a LOT of POC, they're going to get their asses handed to them on several fronts.
Edited: i hz tiping skizz of orang.
WLJ:
The babies did not kill themselves
--- Quote --- Not surprising. But still outrageous.
This decision is a direct assault on the dignity, rights, & lives of women, not to mention decades of settled law. It will kill and subjugate women even as a vast majority of Americans think abortion should be legal. What an utter disgrace. https://t.co/TNo1IX3Tl4
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 3, 2022
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2022/05/02/leftists-praise-completely-destroying-supreme-court-norms-praise-destructive-leak-as-heroic-n2606652
Ben:
Wow. This would be bad. To explain:
If this leaked alleged ruling is true, I would, given my own philosophical beliefs, consider the ruling itself good.
I would consider it bad for people in the short term, whether leaked or not, in the sense that if you thought the antifa and related violence last Summer was bad, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
I consider this bad for the country in that if this was leaked out of the SC, how do we again trust the integrity of the court? This is just like the deep state stuff that went on under Trump. Leaked information to the MSM and big tech resulting in attacks by the "unbiased" media against something the left doesn't like (notice these leaks never happen with stuff the left is in favor of?). Even though this is allegedly a February draft, it's interesting that it leaked just after a new liberal justice and her employees entered the SC. I actually don't believe a Justice, regardless of their politics, would do this. It's almost certainly a woke intern or similar.
There's also a chance that this is just like the Trump "dossier" that was leaked to the lamebrain Daily Beast. Somebody suckered lamebrain Politico in the same way with something fake. I would actually prefer this to the alternative of someone within the SC leaking a real document.
WLJ:
Some finger pointing at a clerk for Justice Sonia Sotomayor
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/05/03/big-if-true-people-are-pointing-fingers-at-this-supreme-court-justice-sonia-sotomayor-clerk-in-relation-to-scotus-leak/
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