Draft Alito opinion leaked overturning Roe

Worst thing that could happen for the Trumpublicans before the midterms. Something like this will very likely bring out far more Democrats to vote than anything Biden could say or do.

 

Never happened during my lifetime.

Midterms are going to be wild. If this doesn’t wake up Dems and independents nothing will.

 

Could not care less. They're about to steal a right away from women. F their feelings. If our right to liberty doesn't grant us the right to control our own bodies, what rights do we actually have?

 

It wasn't made public, but James Buchanan tampered with the Dredd Scott decision and got the head's up on what the outcome would be before it was made public.

 

Zero surprise. That has always been the game with the right-wing extremists. They're coming for our rights. But the American people won't take that lying down.

 

Semi related, but for decades my stance has been I can’t stand the uber liberal “ hippie” types but that I would vote for them over religious zealots every time. One is annoying and one is dangerous. Ymmv
The GOP has played the long propaganda game with Religion and forming an army of ideologues while the Dem were herding cats, micro aggressions and gender

 

I am 100% with you here. F them and their feelings. Looking at the draft Alito’s language is highly inflammatory and arrogant. He went so far as to assert one of the reasons for Roe was to suppress the birth of black babies. It is certainly possible that it could have been a secondary motivation by some, but to explicitly state it as fact it beyond reprehensible.

Also apparently Comey Barrett, as well as Alito, think that a shortage of adoptable babies is a rationale for ending rights to abortion. I’m not sure why that is even in the discussion - it is completely irrelevant (and not all babies would be adopted if abortion 100% ended, which it won’t ).

I hope RPG enjoyed her last years on the court. This is her legacy.

 

Very well put.

 

Leaving it to the states is one thing (whether I agree with it or not).

Criminalizing your people from leaving your state to have an abortion in a state where it’s legal is something completely different.

Show me another law that criminalizes an activity legal in the place where it’s done. It’s a heinous overreach.