Leaked SCOTUS Draft Striking Down Roe Sets Off Firestorm

A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.

The Supreme Court is about to dismantle Roe v. Wade, per an unprecedented leak of a majority opinion draft penned by Justice Samuel Alito in the Mississippi abortion case. According to Politico, which first reported on the February draft, the opinion was written after Alito and fellow Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch voted in conference.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1414265
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State by state there are going to be attempts to peel back Obergefell, Lawrence and Griswold. Eventually, as with Roe, future SCOTUS decisions will give the American Taliban what they want. The war on LGBTQ and contraceptives is now on, in earnest.

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Let this be the death of both sides and lesser of two evils talk.

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People blaming Democrats for not governing by decree are morons.

A large plurality (40%-45%) of women who vote select the GOP candidate in every election, and a third never vote at all. We can expect nothing other than what we’re about to get with numbers like those.

Hillary Clinton told us all of this was in the balance and women voters just shrugged. Am I supposed to feel bad, or surprised?

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There are many good people that want to force a 12 year old victim of incest to bear her child. Everyone agrees.

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Funny yet true

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If you have the capacity for empathy, yes.

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MaYbe leGislature Can do laws aNd no rely On thE courT to maKe thEm?

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Repeat of a different post, but relevant:

No reason to storm the Court. We do, however, need to storm the ballot boxes in elections. This is it everyone, get out and vote. The choice is stark between Democrats and Republicans. Vote.

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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls everywhere, there are midterm elections on the calendar. Get off you asses and let the rethugs know how you feel about abortion rights.

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It’s not an unprecedented leak according to this.

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MAGA : make abortion grotesque again.

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They don’t measure empathy at the ballot box last I heard.

That better happen. Every American on this comment board, everyone that can stand and walk, every damn stupid Dem that didn’t vote back in 2016 or worse.

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That’s the lovely part of the United States - the Right to Protest is protected. The right to be violent during those protests is not.

And that’s where the insurrection parts company with the right to protest.

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Damage control, they knew this would blow up ugly. This is distraction trying to paint themselves as victims. Poor little snowflakes. /s

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Isn’t any attempt to interfere, a unlawful one?

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I got a laugh out of the “insurrection” part of the comment. They’re dreaming of shit that will never happen.

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