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🗓️ 6 June 2022
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0:00.0 | Well, the Supreme Court bill has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Way decision according |
0:26.3 | to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court, but then leaked. |
0:37.0 | The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed |
0:44.8 | federal constitutional protection of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision, |
0:51.2 | Planned Parenthood versus Casey that largely maintained the right, Roe was |
0:57.7 | egregiously wrong from the start, Alito writes. You know, Bill, there have been times I thought that Roe v. Way |
1:05.8 | would never be overturned, but according to this leaked opinion from the Supreme Court, it looks like |
1:12.0 | this is about to happen. Well, one can only hope that that is the case. From what I've heard, |
1:19.1 | five of the justices at least are in support of Alito's opinion. And as you said, Kevin, |
1:25.6 | it repudiates the legal reasoning behind Roe v. Way as well as the Casey versus Planned Parenthood |
1:33.7 | decision. And so it looks as though this could be returned to the states to decide and that this |
1:44.1 | Supreme Court decision Roe v. Way will be overturned. And like you, Kevin, I was hopeless |
1:54.4 | that this might ever happen. I remember back in the 1980s pundits saying, why don't these pro-life |
2:03.1 | people just give it up? This is never going to be overturned. All of these efforts are in vain. |
2:10.0 | It's a futile effort to try to do this. And yet the pro-life cause never gave up. |
2:18.2 | They stayed in the trenches. And now it appears that victory for them may be on the horizon. It really |
2:27.3 | is a breathtaking development. And I have to say, as well, Kevin, this is the legacy of Donald Trump's |
2:38.3 | presidency. Three of the five justices were appointed by Trump that are apparently ready |
2:45.8 | and willing to overturn Roe v. Way. And so this shows the enduring impact of that man's presidency. |
2:55.6 | Now, as I think about this leak, Kevin, it seems to me that there are three |
3:01.6 | issues, independent issues that need to be talked about. One would be the leak itself. |
3:07.5 | Second would be the constitutionality of Roe v. Way. And then the third would be the ethics |
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