GOP Electeds Complain: Who Leaked Our Victory? - TPM – Talking Points Memo

[jonney_5]

@sniffit

This from a genius who no doubt eats mayo directly from the jar.

Trying to relay, through Meadows, to another genius who no doubt eats paste directly from the jar

[mikebnews]

If the Game Plan as Axios reports it is true, then kudos to Axios. Sunshine being the best disinfectant

PS: I used to work with Josh Gerstein. I am soooo proud of him

[leftcoaster]

@globalguy

Be the compassionate, consensus-builder on abortion policy

Oh, this is hilarious. They’ve used Roe to gin up support from the antiabortion crowd who have moved mountains to get a S.C. that would overturn Roe. The consensus in the U.S.A. is for abortion to be legal and safe. It’s not hard to refute the right wing.

[jonney_5]

@sniffit

So Axios thought they’d just help it reach the public without an ounce of critical thought attached to it.

Such is the state of the 4th estate that has been cowering in fear of being called the liberal media

[scavok]

I’m fairly sure that Ginni Thomas is not only the leaker, but the actual author of the draft opinion.

She’s tired of the boys getting credit for her hard work in dismantling the rule of law in this country.

[ronbyers]

@chelsea530

“I want all nine Justices to know there are still principled Senators…

but they’re certainly not republicans.

I read Moscow Mitch’s comment and laughed and laughed and laughed.

[jonney_5]

@mikebnews

Sunshine being the best disinfectant

Disagree, it’s the drinking of bleach, obviously.

[jwbuho]

@lastroth

fumed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in a statement. “This clearly coordinated campaign to intimidate and obstruct the Justices from upholding the Constitution must be immediately investigated"

Kind of OT, admittedly:

Hmm, McCarthy . . . lemme tinker with the wording here a bit, ask you to stroll down Memory Lane to January 6, 2021, and see what you think of the result:

“This clearly coordinated campaign to intimidate and obstruct the Congress from upholding the Constitution must be immediately investigated.”

I do hope you’d agree with this sentiment and cooperate with your colleagues’ ongoing, already-in-progress investigation.

[mec]

@Paracelsus

Nobody has a fundamental right to privacy, as the Court itself has now decreed.

Maybe the Court is kind of like a corporation?

[jmacaz]

“This lawless action should be investigated and punished to the fullest extent possible,” McConnell announced.

Corrected to later add what he implied… ONLY if it is found to be a Democrat appointed judge.

[ronbyers]

@Paracelsus

Nobody has a fundamental right to privacy, as the Court itself has now decreed.

And this is what puts American freedom at risk. Of course, it could be argued that we all lost any right to privacy when the Congress passed the Patriot Act.

[jwbuho]

@globalguy

UPDATE: On the other hand, this is what those Emptywheel elitists have to say!

CNN’s report suggests this leak more likely came from Roberts’ chambers than the most likely other source, Stephen Breyer’s. The most logical explanation for the leak is that Roberts is trying to get his colleagues to adopt a less radical opinion. And if that’s the purpose, it might have the desired effect, both by making it clear what a shit-show the original Alito opinion will set off, but also by exposing the opinion itself to the ridicule and contempt it, as written, deserves.

I think this is right. It also explains Roberts’ unusual (to my mind) public stating of his own position on the decision. He didn’t have to do that out loud; making it public means, now, that we are aware, before the actual decision announcement, of the options the conservatives have–stuff that usually comes out, sometimes, yeas after decisions are announced.

[austin_dave]

Remember when the fear in the GOP of a Kennedy presidency was that he’d be taking orders from the pope?

[socalista]

Is there some law against leaking a draft decision? As far as I can tell the Supreme Court doesn’t even have ethics rules. If it did, Thomas would have been forced to recuse during the Monsanto trial.

And this:
The original Roe v Wade decision was also leaked.

[godwit]

But what about the court’s constitutional right to privacy? Their docket, their choice. <\s>

[socalista]

But only for the male justices of course!

[socalista]

@Paracelsus

Nobody has a fundamental right to privacy, as the Court itself has now decreed.

And women are no longer protected from involuntary servitude by the 13th amendment. We are just incubation devices, property of the State, and we can be put into gestational slavery as a matter of states’ rights

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Alayna Treene (alaynatreene)

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[teenlaqueefa]

Huh, totally not planned, huh?

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