But isn’t the court’s position that they don’t find based on public opinion, but on solid law?
Sort of makes Roberts’ move, if he is the leaker, just one more bit of hypocrisy, doesn’t it?
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Well…
We know Q did it anyway.
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Who knew that a draft SCOTUS opinion was sacred???
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No reason (yet) to think this wasn’t leaked by conservatives to blunt the blow and give themselves their favorite chorus line: Don’t you see … we’re the victims here!
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Pace the GQP, this is less about intimidating the justices than it is about getting crucial information to the public before the midterms. And they hate that!
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Good analysis from a former SCOTUS clerk.
ETA: Whatever you think of Bob Woodward, his book The Brethren is a fascinating look into how the justices work and negotiate to develop opinions.
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Anyone who ever clerked for any judge anywhere in the US. As Amy Kapczynski, former Supreme Court clerk, explains, leaking the draft opinion serves to lock it in and make any changes almost impossible now.
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The fact that Susan B Anthony List showed up at my door today with their lies about what they represent and with attack materials against Dems in general and Gov. Tony Evers in particular was not a coincidence. They knew. They were ready.
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There certainly are some principled Senators but none of them are Republicans, even Collins and Murkowski,.
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Silly. Women are children in the eyes of the law. They need strong white Christian men to control them, lest they start getting all kinds of stupid ideas, or ideas at all.
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I read it years ago.
His court has no resemblance to the court Woodward wrote about. Not even close.
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I remember riding in the car with Grandpa in 1960 and asking who he wanted for President. He was rather disgusted, compared Nixon to a used car salesman. Then he said, “If Kennedy becomes President, the Pope will be King of America.”
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And now, The GOP has worked tirelessly so that their government models the vision of Pope, I dunno— Pius X, maybe? Some anti-modernist, in any event.
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Wait’ll they find out it was an intentional right winger leak and it was a ploy to get a reading on the resistance the overturning would cause. Fuckers.
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Wouldn’t it be great if it turned out Ginni Thomas leaked the draft?
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That would ensure that absolutely nothing would come of repercussions or penalty for the leak.
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Completely agree.
ETA: fuck you too, Lindsey Graham, you flaming piece of excrement.
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Not only that, but Moscow Mitch and the Goopers would clam up instantly about throwing the leaker into prison and putting her up against the wall.
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Exactly