The US supreme court has provisionally voted to overturn Roe v Wade, the landmark ruling that legalised abortion nationwide in America, according to a draft opinion reported on by Politico.
We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled.
In what appeared to be a stunning and unprecedented leak, Politico said on Monday evening it had obtained an initial majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito and circulated in the court on 10 February.
The opinion strikes down Roe v Wade, the court’s 1973 ruling that enshrined the constitutional right to abortion, and a subsequent 1992 decision – Planned Parenthood v Casey – that largely upheld that right.
Much more to come.
Barricades just went up outside the Supreme Court building after the leak.
No doubt, if true, the potential insurrection against SCOTUS is one “insurrection” that the Democrat Party would approve of.
Sure enough, Democrats are openly calling for insurrection:
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/elizabeth-warren-calls-for-millions-to-stand-up-in-insurrection-against-judicial-branch-under-consti.html
Needed is a trans woman to explain the rights of “birthing persons”.
It looks like Warren has taken down that Tweet.
Whoever leaked quite possibly broke the law.
No doubt with the aim of fomenting trouble.
I don’t really think they want to take it to the street.
The Right has all the fire arms.
It wouldn’t go well.
The FBI will have arrested all the Politico reporters and confiscated all electronic devices with The Capital Police manning barricades…
No!?
Betty Warren (Poco Haunt Us):
Women (note: I’m not a biologist), don’t take this lying down!
It’s a nice thought Bruce and I wish I could agree with you but those with the guns did nothing while an election was stolen and BLM and Antifa was laying waste to cities.
The US 2a advocates often mock those who don’t have guns but they have done absolutely nothing for them. The left has achieved virtually everything they want and all they do is wring their hands and talk about what they’ll do if they are pushed far enough. Except they don’t draw any lines that can’t be crossed.
Posing in camos with their friends (making sure to display correct trigger discipline for the camera) doesn’t scare anyone. A 17 year old boy had more courage when he stood up to the BLM / Antifa scum.
I just don’t think the American right has worked out who their enemies are.
Also don’t forget Dinash D’Souza’s film 2000 Mules will be released on Saturday.
They’ve got to suppress that somehow.
Watch the Democrats. They’re going to start visibly ageing very quickly without the fountain of youth.
Rittenhouse made a difference … small difference but BLM backed off on the random city fire lighting after that.
A lot of people forget that Australians have no right of self defense, wheras Americans do use their self defense quite regularly … not always successfully but often enough.
The fire bugs have moved to burning food plants now … I guess when food prices double then it will be worth posting armed guard on what remains.
“Bruce of Newcastle says:
3 May, 2022 at 2:52 pm
I don’t really think they want to take it to the street.
The Right has all the fire arms.
It wouldn’t go well.”
Not true. Far-left groups in places like Portland are well armed and highly skilled. There are Antifa gun clubs. One of the biggest myths out there is that far-left terrorist groups like BLM and Antifa are gun shy and soy boys. They aren’t.
The American right has grown fat, lazy and somewhat stupid over the past, say, 20 years. As I’ve argued before, they retreated into a kind of privatistic conservatism whereby as long as they had their guns and their online pressure valves, political life on the streets and in the institutions no longer really mattered.
I’m not saying that because they haven’t used the guns they love so much. I’m not fantasising about, or advocating, violence.
But what we now call ‘woke’ hasn’t been stopped with the Second Amendment; it hasn’t been stopped by superiority with memes and it won’t be stopped by massing around Donald Trump.
Remember, it was disarmed Canadians in trucks who led the Western world in organised, militant opposition to mandates and lockdown fascism. The gun-toting US right was missing in action.
America is not the locus of authority and inspiration it used to be. I firmly believe the US has to take time to gather its senses and heal domestically; the last thing it needs is another Forever War. This Ukraine insanity will sink the United States unrecoverably if somebody doesn’t change the nation’s direction.
Forget it Jim, It’s Dead.
https://pjmedia.com/columns/rabbi-michael-barclay/2022/04/30/nazi-comparisons-n1594179
I have no trouble with people who believe Roe V Wade was bad law and should be over turned however almost all those Justices who are going to do that lied on oath about their position.
I prefer people who stand up and argue their position.
The problem for those who wish abortion to be curtailed is that most people are opposed to that.
good to see CL again supporting people who wanted to illegally overturn elections.
Non Mentis
I have no trouble with people who believe Roe V Wade was bad law and should be over turned however almost all those Justices who are going to do that lied on oath about their position.
Do you think that the black woman who was put forward as the “first black woman” for the Supreme Court lied when she said that she could not define what is a woman? On oath.
good to see CL again supporting people who wanted to illegally overturn elections.
Nice that C.L. tolerates your rubbish.
I have no trouble with people who believe RvW is bad law, I do have trouble with people who use slander with no evidence to back it up to make an irrelevant point in an attempt to distract from the issue at the heart of a discussion.
Homer, you remind me of Sir Richard Rich in A Man For All Seasons, to whom Thomas More famously said – the quote here slightly amended – “Why Richard, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world … but for Roe vs. Wade!”
The only attempt to overthrow an election in US history was instigated, financed and overseen by Hillary Clinton and her Russian dossier-makers.
CL
The only attempt to overthrow an election in US history was instigated, financed and overseen by Hillary Clinton and her Russian dossier-makers.
True. The 2020 election was stolen by rampant electoral rorting.
It’s my suspicion that facing electoral annihilation, the Biden ‘administration’ leaked what it already knew (from illegal surveillance of the Supreme Court) to muster enthusiasm for the mid-terms.
No culprit will ever be found.
So now, but only when it suits you, you are in favour of something because of “populism.”
Not that I believe that abortion is as popular (as horrendous a prospect as that is) as you say it is.
Lee
You need to remember, that to the fascist left, there are two satndards.
When polls support something the fascist left also support, that is “The will of the people, that must not be challenged”.
When the polls support something that the fascist left opposes, that is “Cheap populism”, and must be opposed by the fascist left.
Just for the ignorant those buffoons’ in Canada wanted to overthrow the government. Like most deplorables they hate democracy.
The Biden administration has no contact with Draft judgements of the Supreme court. I don’t know where that furphy came from.
no Trump tried to overthrow a duly elected president. He claimed electoral fraud a rather easy thing to prove and could not do so. only primary school drop outs believed that lie.
A Senate committee and all security agencies unanimously agreed CL’s hero and war criminal Putin tried to manipulate the 2016 election.
you change abortion laws by arguing your case not by having people lie through their teeth at confirmation hearings. That merely reduces the trust of people in that institution. Any conservative knows that.
A case is being argued in the supreme court at the moment, because the legislature refused to create actual law around abortion an activist court created their own. Now quite rightly they are finding that the law should have been written and passed by the legislature which is basically the draft opinion. The Dems hold all three houses of government in the US, are they so hopeless they can’t pass an abortion law they find acceptable?
“A Senate committee and all security agencies unanimously agreed CL’s hero and war criminal Putin tried to manipulate the 2016 election.”
I can tolerate idiots, morons and fools posting here but you’re a desperate low life, clearly looking for attention.
You’re a sad sack Tramp…..really sad.
you do post here and for once you are right.
and could not argue against what I said.
NM, you didn’t put forward an argument, just a series of unconnected statements that don’t reflect factual events. Perhaps a course in English might help you form coherent sentences?
Not Trampis says:
4 May, 2022 at 1:23 pm
Just for the ignorant those buffoons’ in Canada wanted to overthrow the government. Like most deplorables they hate democracy.
By parking trucks around the Parliament area? No weapons involved (just like
on 6 January), and kiddies bouncing castles?
Was this yet another of those “unarmed insurrections” that the fascist left sees, while not noticing the street violence perpetrated by Ante-Fa (comes before fascism) and BLM?
The fascist left hate anyone who doesn’t support them, and claim that rejecting their fascism is “hat[ing] democracy? What was the term used by Mao? Or was it Lenin? “An infantile disorder”?
Non Mentis
The Biden administration has no contact with Draft judgements of the Supreme court. I don’t know where that furphy came from.
Well, no official contact, but given the behaviour of the FBI, CIA, DoJ and other agencies recently, who knows what illegal contact they had? Not you, that is for certain.
Buccaneer
Perhaps a course in English might help you form coherent sentences?
I’m pretty sure that the village idiot Trampis was unable to finish pre-school.
It’s petty shocking when you think about it. The thing the energizes the Demonic party the most is killing kids.