USA : WILL THE SUPREME COURT END THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO ABORTION?

Is America moving toward ending the constitutional right to abortion? Last night, May 2, 2022, online news site Politico revealed that the US Supreme Court was preparing to annul a nearly 50-year-old ruling that recognized the right to abortion, an issue still controversial. in American public opinion.

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.”

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A person familiar with the court’s deliberations said that four of the other Republican-appointed justices — Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett — had voted with Alito in the conference held among the justices after hearing oral arguments in December, and that line-up remains unchanged as of this week.

The three Democratic-appointed justices — Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — are working on one or more dissents, according to the person. How Chief Justice John Roberts will ultimately vote, and whether he will join an already written opinion or draft his own, is unclear.

The document, labeled as a first draft of the majority opinion, includes a notation that it was circulated among the justices on Feb. 10. If the Alito draft is adopted, it would rule in favor of Mississippi in the closely watched case over that state’s attempt to ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

Roberts confirmed the authenticity of the draft opinion and said he was ordering an investigation into the disclosure.

“To the extent this betrayal of the confidences of the Court was intended to undermine the integrity of our operations, it will not succeed. The work of the Court will not be affected in any way,” Roberts pledged in a written statement. “This was a singular and egregious breach of that trust that is an affront to the Court and the community of public servants who work here.”

Roberts also stressed that the draft opinion “does not represent a decision by the Court or the final position of any member on the issues in the case.” The court spokesperson had declined comment pre-publication.

10 KEY PASSAGES FROM ALITO’S DRAFT OPINION, WHICH WOULD OVERTURN ROE V. WADE
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POLITICO received a copy of the draft opinion from a person familiar with the court’s proceedings in the Mississippi case along with other details supporting the authenticity of the document. The draft opinion runs 98 pages, including a 31-page appendix of historical state abortion laws. The document is replete with citations to previous court decisions, books and other authorities, and includes 118 footnotes. The appearances and timing of this draft are consistent with court practice.

The disclosure of Alito’s draft majority opinion — a rare breach of Supreme Court secrecy and tradition around its deliberations — comes as all sides in the abortion debate are girding for the ruling. Speculation about the looming decision has been intense since the December oral arguments indicated a majority was inclined to support the Mississippi law.

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Under long-standing court procedures, justices hold preliminary votes on cases shortly after argument and assign a member of the majority to write a draft of the court’s opinion. The draft is often amended in consultation with other justices, and in some cases the justices change their votes altogether, creating the possibility that the current alignment on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization could change.

The chief justice typically assigns majority opinions when he is in the majority. When he is not, that decision is typically made by the most senior justice in the majority.

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.

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 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.

(CNN)The Supreme Court may be poised to end the right to an abortion that American women have had for nearly 50 years.

A draft opinion -- published on Monday by Politico in an unprecedented breach of secrecy at the normally secretive high court -- suggests Republican-appointed justices could use their new power to deliver what conservative legal activists have spent decades trying to accomplish: a full and complete reversal of Roe v. Wade.

THE OPINION IS NOT FINAL
These things can and do change, such as Chief Justice John Roberts' last-minute decision in 2012 to save the Affordable Care Act.

CNN's Joan Biskupic has written about how the Roe decision was crafted, with changes in the weeks before it was handed down in 1973.

ARGUING IN REAL TIME
Details of those dramas seeped out years or decades later.





Biskupic has reported Roberts is willing to uphold Mississippi's law that would ban abortion at 15 weeks of pregnancy, which is in line with some European countries, as a middle ground.

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But the other Republican-appointed justices, led by Samuel Alito, want to completely change the meaning of precedent and hand control of the abortion issue back to states.

"It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives," Alito writes in the draft opinion.

The question now is whether another conservative on the court -- Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh or Amy Coney Barrett -- might disagree.

WHAT WAS THE RELEASE OF THE DRAFT MEANT TO ACCOMPLISH?
The publishing of the draft opinion by Politico puts the Supreme Court's inner workings in public. Roberts ordered an investigation by the Marshal of the Court, but secrecy of decisions is custom rather than law, so it's not clear what penalty the source of the leak could face.

"Is the leak designed to get (Kavanaugh) to change his mind or designed to make sure he does not change his mind?" wondered John King on CNN on Tuesday. "That's one of the mysteries as we watch this play out." Some experts have wondered if Kavanaugh might be the most likely to switch sides.

King's question is valid, and it will be all the more intriguing if this draft opinion does not come to be. The court's formal ruling is not expected to be published until late June.

The unexpected release of the draft opinion, however, is a subplot to the larger issue of a court willing to remake the social landscape of the country.

THESE JUSTICES USED TO VIEW ROE V. WADE AS PRECEDENT
I looked at what justices like Alito, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch said when they were trying to get confirmed -- that Roe was accepted precedent. Thomas said he hadn't given it much thought. Those days seem far away now. Read more here.

In the draft opinion, Alito unleashes on the Roe decision as "egregiously wrong."

SOME REPUBLICANS MUST FEEL BETRAYED
Many Republicans who have worked for this moment are elated.

But Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who previously expressed her confidence that the GOP-appointed judges she supported would not overturn Roe, issued a statement of shock at the draft opinion, suggesting she had been misled. Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said the draft "rocks my confidence in the court."

Perhaps Collins should have simply paid a bit more attention. What justices like Alito and Kavanaugh said about precedent in their confirmation hearings seemed to contradict their earlier views as government lawyers. Now those earlier views, that Roe was wrongly decided, may inform the law of the land.

ABORTION RIGHTS SUPPORTERS WOULD HAVE LITTLE RECOURSE
The minority of Democrat-appointed justices on the Supreme Court has little power in a court newly emboldened.

Meanwhile, the Republican minority in the Senate can squash any attempt to codify Roe into law.

The effort to overturn Roe v. Wade took nearly 50 years of hard work. The effort to remake courts or codify abortion into law could take a very long time too.

NOT ALL DEMOCRATS SUPPORT ABORTION RIGHTS
Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat, opposes abortion rights and will not change Senate rules to codify Roe into law. That means there aren't enough votes to change the rules, given that it's a 50-50 Senate and Democrats need every vote.

GENERAL SUPPORT FOR ROE AND ABORTION RIGHTS
Americans, broadly, are supportive of Roe and abortion rights, although the details can vary with how pollsters ask the question.

According to a CNN poll conducted in January, more than two-thirds, 69% of Americans, do not support overturning Roe v. Wade.

The poll also asked how people would feel if the law was overturned, and the results suggest a large number of Americans would be frustrated:

14% - Happy.
12% - Satisfied.
25% - Dissatisfied.
35% - Angry.
14% - Wouldn't care.
AMERICANS DO NOT SPEAK WITH ONE VOICE ON ABORTION
It's true that a majority of Americans support protecting abortion rights, but it's also likely those views vary by state.

In this way, Alito's draft opinion to give power back to state legislators might find more supporters in certain portions of the country.

Views on whether abortion should be legal have been relatively static for years. In a PRRI survey in 2018, about two-thirds of people in Massachusetts said abortion should be legal in all or most cases. And Massachusetts will protect abortion rights in that state.

Much smaller minorities, 34% in Louisiana and 39% in Arkansas, said abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Abortion would face likely bans in those states.

In many parts of the country, support is about evenly split, including in the political battlegrounds of Texas and Georgia. Both states are among those that have passed extreme limits on abortion, which have already created a patchwork of access to abortion services.

HOW MANY ABORTIONS ARE PERFORMED EACH YEAR?
The draft opinion, if it becomes law, would have a profound and immediate impact on women in the half of the country that may not have access to abortion services later this year.

There were 629,898 legal abortions in the US in 2019, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The vast majority -- 92.7% -- took place before 13 weeks of gestation. Far fewer, 6.2%, took place between 14 and 20 weeks of gestation, and less than 1% took place at more than 21 weeks. A large portion of US abortions, 42.3%, are induced very early in pregnancy by medication.

ABORTION-ACCESS STATES VS. ABORTION-BAN STATES
If Roe is overturned, more than half of states, 26, could feature abortion bans, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights.

Nine states have pre-Roe bans that could potentially be enforced and 13 have passed "trigger bans" that would go into effect if Roe is overturned. See the maps.

A LARGER THREAT TO PRIVACY
President Joe Biden is not extremely comfortable talking about abortion. He supports protecting a woman's right to choose an abortion as a policy matter but is a Catholic who opposes abortion personally.

Until Tuesday, according to CNN's White House team, he had not used the word "abortion" as President. Talking to reporters about the draft opinion, he immediately broadened out the scope of the decision to argue Alito's thinking could jeopardize other decisions, including the right to same-sex marriage.

"Even more equally as profound is the rationale used. And it would mean that every other decision relating to the notion of privacy is thrown into question," Biden told reporters.

A NEW POLITICAL REALITY
The draft opinion, if it becomes law, remakes the political conversation heading into the 2022 midterms, according to CNN's Chris Cillizza.

Democrats will seize again on women's rights as a political issue, even as they have little they can tangibly deliver to protect the right to an abortion at the state level.

Republicans for now are trying to keep focus on the economy and not abortion, as they look to appeal to educated voters in the suburbs who are more likely to support abortion rights.

WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?
Women would undeniably have fewer rights. CNN legal analyst Carrie Cordero said on "Inside Politics" that the draft opinion would make women less free.

"If we can back up the lens, it means women in the 21st century are going to be less constitutionally protected than in the 20th," she said.

Stop saying courts aren't political. Another CNN analyst, Elliot Williams, said the draft opinion would disprove the increasingly naive idea that the nation's courts are not driven by political belief.

"We've got to get off this idea that the Supreme Court is this apolitical body that exists outside of politics, when less than two years after a major personnel shift at the court, a major precedent is falling," Williams said. "This idea that the court sort of exists outside and above it all -- it's just not reality."

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POLITICS LMAO: Foreign President Publicly PUNKS PELOSI!

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President of Croatia Zoran Milanovic has reportedly ditched a meeting with U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, citing the likelyhood American voters will fire Pelosi from that role in the November midterms.
Milanovic reportedly made the remarks publicly, Serbian newspaper Telegraf reports, when asked about meeting Pelosi in Zagreb for the Crimean Platform Summit.

“The Americans asked for a meeting I can’t make it today and that’s it,” Milanovic reportedly said.
“She’s not in the executive branch,” he added, “and in two weeks she will not hold the office she does now, anyway.”
While Pelosi is almost guaranteed to retain her seat in the U.S. House, pollsters and pundits alike continue to grow more convinced that Republicans will manage to retake the House and strip Pelosi of her Speaker gig.

In fact, politicos have become so certain of a Republican victory in the lower chamber that leadership fights are already bubbling, with Fox News host Tucker Carlson reportedly becoming involved in the battle for the third most powerful seat.
Milanovic may be looking forward to the Republican Party’s ascension for pragmatic reasons, too. He’s questioned whether Ukraine should be allowed to join NATO, and generally opposed regional escalation in the country’s war with Russia.


“Ukraine does not belong in NATO,” Milanovic said in January of this year, before asserting that the European Union “triggered a coup in Ukraine in 2014 when the pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych was ousted.”

While most disagree with Milanovic’s assessment, most do agree that the Western-backed events of 2014 set the stage for separatism in the Donbass region, the Russian referendum in Crimea, and much of the current conflict in Ukraine.

A minority of Republicans have been the most vocal proponents for peace in Ukraine, with Rep. Paul Gosar calling for a moratorium on foreign aid due to the war, though a small number of Democrats – perhaps worried about the party’s electoral chances this November – have since joined the call.

Peter Doocy Asks White House Press Secretary the Question We've All Been Wondering
Mike Vance January 13, 2023
During a press briefing, Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre directly if President Joe Biden had any involvement in "family business schemes."


The Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee has claimed that there is evidence that Biden lied to the public about his involvement in his family's international business ventures. The new Republican majority in the House has also vowed to investigate the president's son, Hunter, over his dealings with Ukrainian energy company Burisma and Chinese energy company CEFC China Energy.


“With the new Republican majority coming in, the House Oversight Committee is laying out their new investigations, and they claim it had evidence that Joe Biden lied to the American people about his involvement in his family’s business schemes. Did he?” Doocy questioned at the press briefing on Tuesday.

“So look, I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. House Republicans promise that fighting inflation during the midterms was going to be their number one priority, that is what they said was important to them and that’s what they said they wanted to do,” Jean-Pierre said. “But instead, what they’re doing, is wanting to start an investigation on the president and his family. They don’t want to focus on the American people and their family, they want to focus on political division. They want to focus on something that the American people do not want to see, as we saw from the midterm elections.”



In November, House Republicans on the Oversight Committee released a report claiming that Biden "abused his public positions" to further his family's financial interests. Representative James Comer of Kentucky (R) previously stated that they have "presented the evidence" to investigate the president's involvement in his son's business endeavors.

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'Answer the Question' - Interview Goes OFF THE RAILS When Host Downplays Biden’s Bribery Allegations
In September 2020, Senate Republicans released a report alleging that the younger Biden had "exploited" his father's position of power, though the report did not specify Biden's role in his son's business endeavors.

President Biden has repeatedly denied having any involvement in his son's business dealings. In 2019, while running for president, he told reporters that he had never had a conversation with Hunter about his business endeavors. However, an alleged voicemail from 2018 obtained by the Daily Mail indicated that Biden planned to speak with his son about a New York Times article discussing his business activities in China.

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