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Morning Joe

Morning Joe 5/3/22

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

Issues, Washington, Politics, President, Campaign, Scarboro, Brezinski, News, Giest, Ms Now, Congress, Government, Election

3.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A draft Supreme Court opinion indicates Roe v. Wade will be overturned, Politico reports in extraordinary leak

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0:00.0

Do I have this day an opinion, a personal opinion, on the outcome in Roe versus Wade?

0:07.7

And my answer to you is that I do not.

0:10.4

But do you think there is as fundamental a concern as legitimacy of the court would be involved if Roe were to be overturned?

0:20.5

Mr. Chairman, I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case

0:25.6

if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

0:31.6

So a good judge will consider it as precedent of the United States Supreme Court worthy as treatment of precedent like any other.

0:39.5

Senator, I said that it's settled as a precedent of the Supreme Court entitled to respect under

0:45.9

principles of stare decisis. And one of the important things to keep in mind about Roe v. Wade

0:51.3

is that it has been reaffirmed many times over the past 45 years.

0:59.0

As Richard Fallon from Harvard said, Roe is not a super precedent because calls for its overruling

1:04.6

have never ceased, but that doesn't mean that Roe should be overruled.

1:08.5

It just means that it doesn't fall on the small handful of cases like Marbury v. Madison

1:14.0

and Brown v. the board that no one questions anymore.

1:19.0

We have breaking Supreme Court news this morning.

1:22.3

Politico drops a bombshell on the U.S. legal and political system with an unprecedented leak from the Supreme

1:30.2

Court that Roe v. Wade may be on the verge of being overturned, reversing nearly 50 years

1:37.1

of federal protection for abortion rights. This morning, the document that could shift history

1:43.2

and the leak that has rocked the Supreme Court.

1:46.9

Plus, the reporter who broke the story will be our guest.

1:50.1

And it is primary day in Ohio.

1:52.6

Will Donald Trump remember the candidate he endorsed?

1:55.2

He likes them all now, he says.

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