All Eyes on Trump SCOTUS Picks as Roe V Wade Set To Be Tested – IOTW Report

All Eyes on Trump SCOTUS Picks as Roe V Wade Set To Be Tested

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Conservatives have been waiting decades for this moment: a transformed Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an abortion case that directly challenges women’s reproductive rights tracing to the 1973 Roe v. Wade milestone. And unlike past times when Roe teetered in the balance, this is not a 5-4 court with the potential to suddenly dash the hopes of Republicans and religious conservatives. This is a 6-3 conservative-liberal bench. If one of the GOP appointees suddenly edges left, as happened before, a five-justice right-wing majority would still exist.Republicans rued the abortion-rights votes of GOP-nominated Justices Sandra Day O’Connor, David Souter and Anthony Kennedy, all now retired, over the years.

But the current makeup of the court, with three appointees of former President Donald Trump and three other justices who have opposed abortion rights, provides a dynamic that found abortion opponents ecstatic at the court’s announcement and abortion rights supporters trembling.

After months of internal debate on the matter, the justices announced on Monday they would add to their 2021-22 session a dispute over a Mississippi ban on abortions after 15 weeks. The controversy, which would likely be heard in the fall and decided by June of 2022, could eviscerate the heart of Roe v. Wade, which declared women have a constitutional right to end a pregnancy.

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7 Comments on All Eyes on Trump SCOTUS Picks as Roe V Wade Set To Be Tested

  1. This is CNN hysteria-mongering. Abortion rights aren’t close to being “at risk”.

    BUT… as long as the lib media can keep both one-issue leftists and rightists focused on this kind of thing, maybe they won’t pay attention to anything that requires math, the rising totalitarianism, the coming stagflation or hyperinflation, the destruction of everything else…

    Nothing is going to “overturn Roe v. Wade” because Roe v. Wade already was substantially rewritten by Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which substituted “viability” for the trimester argument. Is 15 weeks a viable fetus that can live outside the womb? Yes or no.

    But you know… “Oh look! There’s a squirrel!”

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