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Post by Admin on May 3, 2022 18:43:26 GMT
The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO. The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision — Planned Parenthood v. Casey — that largely maintained the right. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes. Original Document (PDF) » s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21835435/scotus-initial-draft.pdf“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” he writes in the document, labeled as the “Opinion of the Court.” “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.” Deliberations on controversial cases have in the past been fluid. Justices can and sometimes do change their votes as draft opinions circulate and major decisions can be subject to multiple drafts and vote-trading, sometimes until just days before a decision is unveiled. The court’s holding will not be final until it is published, likely in the next two months. The immediate impact of the ruling as drafted in February would be to end a half-century guarantee of federal constitutional protection of abortion rights and allow each state to decide whether to restrict or ban abortion. It’s unclear if there have been subsequent changes to the draft. Supreme Court Protests Following Leak | FOX 5 DC 35 watching now Started streaming 3 hours ago Protests at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. after a leaked report was published suggesting the Court could be poised to overturn the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide. DISCRETION ADVISED: This is LIVE coverage from outside the Supreme Court. Inappropriate / explicit language possible No draft decision in the modern history of the court has been disclosed publicly while a case was still pending. The unprecedented revelation is bound to intensify the debate over what was already the most controversial case on the docket this term. The draft opinion offers an extraordinary window into the justices’ deliberations in one of the most consequential cases before the court in the last five decades. Some court-watchers predicted that the conservative majority would slice away at abortion rights without flatly overturning a 49-year-old precedent. The draft shows that the court is looking to reject Roe’s logic and legal protections.
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Post by Admin on May 3, 2022 20:28:31 GMT
President Biden said Tuesday that if a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito suggesting the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade holds, it would represent a “radical” and “fundamental” shift in the rule of law. “It concerns me a great deal that we're going to, after 50 years, decide a woman does not have the right to choose,” Biden told reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. "But equally as profound is the rationale used." On Monday night, Politico published the draft of a 98-page majority opinion written by Alito in which he states that the court’s decision in the Roe case was “egregiously wrong” and “must be overruled.” “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Alito writes, referencing the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey case, which reaffirmed Roe. “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.” Alito argued that rights protected by the Constitution but not explicitly mentioned in its text must be strongly rooted in U.S. history and tradition — and that abortion is not one of them. Biden said that such a rationale would put other rights — including gay marriage — in jeopardy. “Every other decision related to the notion of privacy is thrown into question,” the president said. "Who you marry, whether or not you decide to conceive a child or not, whether or not you can have an abortion, a range of other decisions." “If this decision holds, it's really quite a radical decision,” Biden added. “I think it goes way overboard.” Several progressive lawmakers, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., have called for the codification of Roe v. Wade in order to protect abortion rights at the federal level. Biden told reporters that the “codification of Roe makes a lot of sense,” but stopped short of calling for an end to the filibuster to achieve it. Earlier Tuesday, the president released a lengthy statement saying that his administration is committed to defending Roe.
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Post by Admin on May 4, 2022 1:43:31 GMT
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Post by Admin on May 4, 2022 14:05:52 GMT
Legal experts believe overturning landmark Roe v. Wade ruling will have a wide-ranging impact 2,020 views May 4, 2022 If the Supreme Court overturns the historic landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, it could impact other Right to Privacy freedoms
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Post by Admin on May 4, 2022 18:28:17 GMT
Protests erupt over leaked SCOTUS abortion draft opinion 5,091 views May 5, 2022 Eric Spillman reports for the KTLA 5 Morning News on May 4, 2022.
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