The Supreme Court's second decision of the day is Dobbs. Roe v. Wade is overruled. supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf…
There is so much to grieve today, but at this moment I am mourning for the countless Americans who will be killed by the Supreme Court's decision, the mothers who will be forced into deeper poverty, the miscarriage patients investigated and denied care.
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Clarence Thomas, concurring, explicitly calls on the Supreme Court to overrule Griswold (right to contraception), Lawrence (right to same-sex intimacy), and Obergefell (right to same-sex marriage). supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf…
The dissenters scorn Alito's declaration that today's decision does not place other precedents "under threat."
"Either the majority does not really believe in its own reasoning. Or if it does, all rights that have no history stretching back to the mid19th century are insecure."
The dissenters tear into Kavanaugh's concurrence "appropriating the rhetoric of even-handedness" by claiming "neutrality" on abortion.
"His position just is what it is: A brook-no-compromise refusal to recognize a woman’s right to choose, from the first day of a pregnancy."
Kavanaugh preemptively declares that states can't prohibit their residents from traveling elsewhere for an abortion due to the "constitutional right to interstate travel"—which, like abortion, is not mentioned explicitly in the text of the Constitution. supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf…
Pausing here to recall Susan Collins' speech announcing that Brett Kavanaugh would NEVER overrule Roe v. Wade because he believes that precedent “not something to be trimmed, narrowed, discarded, or overlooked.”
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