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Best of Breakpoint 2022: Understanding Justice Alito's Leaked Opinion

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Christianity, News Commentary, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Justice Alito thoroughly dismantles the claim that the right to an abortion is found anywhere in the Constitution.

This Breakpoint was originally published on May 3, 2022.

 

Transcript

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This week on Breakpoint, we're looking back at some of the most important commentaries

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of 2022.

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Hi, this is John Stone Street, host of Breakpoint.

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Our goal with each and every Breakpoint commentaries to help you think about life and culture

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from a Christian worldview and live accordingly.

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Please join us in this work and help others live like Christians in these challenging times.

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Just go to colsoncenter.org slash December.

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That's colsoncenter.org slash December to make a gift.

0:26.3

Here's Breakpoint.

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The leak of a draft of an opinion from the Supreme Court, that's unprecedented.

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And what that leak contain makes it even more important.

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For the colsoncenter, I'm John Stone Street.

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This is Breakpoint.

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On Monday night, an initial draft of the Supreme Court majority opinion on the DOBS case

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was leaked to the news site Politico.

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As Godis blog tweeted, quote, it's impossible to overstate the earthquake this will cause

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inside the court in terms of the destruction of trust among the justices and staff.

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And on Tuesday morning, Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed the authenticity of the draft

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and then called the leak quote, a betrayal of confidences of the court intended to undermine

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the integrity of our operations.

1:09.7

Well, most likely the leak was intended to pressure the court's conservative justices

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to moderate their opinion before a final decision is published.

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