I’m a little bit surprised that this came out before the midterms, but only a little bit. Ever since Trump won in 2016, this was essentially a fait accompli. The effort to ban abortion nationwide is of course next.
“The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark
Roe v. Wadedecision, 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.
“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.”
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Justice Alito writes in an initial majority draft circulated inside the court.
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