Roe v. Wade to be overturned?

Odds that the leaker was from trump’s circle since he wants the adulation that his judges reversed abortion?

 

Not the New York Times, but Politico.

Not the Washington Post, but Politico.

Not the Boston Globe, but Politico.

That's the funniest part of the whole shebang ... Politico got it.

 

Someone made a good point earlier today: Politico published the story before its reporters' book tour.

 

Perfect sentence from Serwer:

"Alito’s writing reflects the current tone of right-wing discourse: grandiose and contemptuous, disingenuous and self-contradictory, with the necessary undertone of self-pity as justification."

 

Says a lot about the age of the leaker.

 

I was coming to post a couple of clips from that article.

“The majority can believe that it’s only eviscerating a right to abortion in this draft,” Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin, told me, “but the means by which it does so would open the door to similar attacks on other unenumerated rights, both directly, by attacking the underpinnings of those doctrines, and indirectly, by setting a precedent for such an attack.

Aside from rights specifically mentioned in the text of the Constitution, Alito argues, only those rights “deeply rooted in the nation’s history in tradition” deserve its protections. This is as arbitrary as it is lawless. Alito is saying there is no freedom from state coercion that conservatives cannot strip away if conservatives find that freedom personally distasteful. The rights of heterosexual married couples to obtain contraception, or of LGBTQ people to be free from discrimination, are obvious targets. But other rights that Americans now take for granted could easily be excluded by this capricious reasoning."

 

deep check

 

I found this NYT article very clear, concise and helpful with regard to the changes/impact the overturn of Roe vs. Wade would incite.

What Would the End of Roe Mean? Key Questions and Answers.

 

Every accusation is a confession

 

Little desantis is looking forward to his future as a rapist.

 

If I remember my high school Civics class correctly, the Framers fully expected the LEGISLATIVE BRANCH of the Federal Government to amend the Constitution as needed. They themselves added the Bill of Rights as the first 10 amendments. The original Constitution was supposed to be the starting point --the framework of a governing system -- that was supposed to grow and evolve as the future unfolded, not a stagnant piece of paper to be debated and poured over to determine INTERPRETATION of a group of men who wore powdered wigs and wrote with feathers.

And yet somehow, more than 200 years later, instead of having hundreds of amendments necessary to bring the Constitution into the 21st Century and dozens more being debated by state legislatures every year, Congress has basically sat on its ass since 1804 -- unless it absolutely, positively has no other choice. We have jet planes, laptop computers and rockets that can land themselves, but we're still arguing over what it means to have a well-regulated Militia.

The legislature has had five decades to amend the Law of the Land to provide specific and overreaching personal liberties not already addressed in the Bill of Rights. And they've done ... squat about it.

The fact that nine unelected, lifetime-appointed lawyers in black robes have more say in what's the law in this country than our incompetent elected officials speaks to the complete and total failure of our legislative branch's ability to make the Constitution relevant.

The Founders assumed We, The People would elect competent, smart representatives who would press for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in our interest, instead of spotlight-hogging millionaires who get a cushy seat in Congress and get even richer on PACs, insider trading and kickbacks, and don't even have to set foot in the place they represent, let alone reside there. Boy, were they ever gullible!

If every member of the House and Senate were to keel over in the next hour, we could hardly do worse than replace them with orange traffic cones or empty Starbucks coffee cups.

Go Vote! That's fine and dandy, but with the exception of the rare cases -- such as December's Senate runoffs here in Georgia -- the decision has already been made in an overwhelming number of districts due to the lack of a qualified, competent challenger, whether Democrat or Republican. And I don't get to choose who represents any of the other 49 states or even the other 14 congressional districts in Georgia.

The two-party system has failed the American Experiment.

A pox on all their houses.