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The Court Must Hold the Line
American Thinker.com ^ | May 4, 2022 | Christopher Skeet

Posted on 05/04/2022 3:35:47 AM PDT by Kaslin

As we all found out Monday night, Politico published the leaked opinion of Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health, which suggested that the Supreme Court will soon release a ruling overturning Roe v Wade, and give the power to legislate abortion back to the states. Senator Josh Hawley stated out loud what everybody living between Venus and Mars understands perfectly well, that this leak was “clearly meant to intimidate” the members of the court from overturning Roe.

The result was predictable, almost boringly so. Pelosi and Schumer released a statement bleating that the Republican Party has “devolved” into the “party of Trump”…as if there wasn’t a massive pro-life movement before Trump, and as if Trump weren’t vocally pro-choice for most of his life. To prove Hawley’s point, the threats of violence were soon to follow. Vox activist Ian Millhiser wrote, “Let’s burn this place down” (and by “let’s”, he means somebody other than he should incriminate themselves). Crowds gathered outside the Supreme Court to denounce “fascist scum,” a term they couldn’t even begin to define and which better reflects their own ideology rather than that of their perceived enemies.

Who leaked to document? It could have been a narcissistic clerk who felt his personal feelings supersede representative government. It could have been a wise Latina. Regardless, those on the right who snort that whoever did this has just flushed their legal career down the toilet haven’t considered the Vindmanesque treatment already being gushed upon this "brave” leaker. The loss of a legal career in the anonymous bowels of the Washington swamp machinery pales in comparison to the forthcoming hero’s welcome they’ll receive on the shoulders of the Left in the form of interviews, speaking engagements, book deals, movie rights, and MSNBC gigs.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: politico

1 posted on 05/04/2022 3:35:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Bttt


2 posted on 05/04/2022 3:41:05 AM PDT by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: Kaslin

Roberts is compromised. Whatever happens, God will deal with him. And America.


3 posted on 05/04/2022 3:53:23 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Kaslin

Roberts and SCOTUS should heed this:

“The second option is to issue the decision not in ninety days as originally planned, but right now. This will give the Left no time in which to organize the riots, the arson, and a second attempt to stage at the Supreme Court another — what’s the word? — insurrection. The notion of giving the Left an entire three months for which to plan such mayhem is so naïve, so suicidal, and so obviously a bad idea, that the responsibility for its inevitable consequences will be at least partially borne by Roberts for deferring the announcement.”


4 posted on 05/04/2022 3:55:34 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: ViLaLuz

The entire damn court is compromised.


5 posted on 05/04/2022 3:57:16 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: Guenevere
...and give the power to legislate abortion back to the states.

I see it when I believe it.


Power; once tasted and applied; is hardly EVER given away; but forcefully wrested from greedy hands.

6 posted on 05/04/2022 4:00:28 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: mewzilla

Agreed. The entire government is compromised.


7 posted on 05/04/2022 4:33:48 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

According to SCOTUS’ calendar, they have less than two months until the end of the October 2021 Term:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/2021TermCourtCalendar.pdf


8 posted on 05/04/2022 5:12:40 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Kaslin

Oh.

Really?


9 posted on 05/04/2022 5:13:13 AM PDT by sauropod ("We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they are elected. Don’t you?" Why? "It saves time.”)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The court could also do the opposite. Defer to an indefinite date, even recede from giving an opinion at all. SCOTUS is not obliged to take the case, and it is not obliged to issue an opinion.

That too would interfere with planning an insurrection event around release of the opinion.

Considering the text you posted, I reject the conclusion that giving the left time to plan an insurrection is bad. I assume for the same of argument that the government has the will to control insurrection. It certainly has the force capability. If the government wants to stifle illegal activity, just infiltrate and charge conspiracy. This is the ordinary practice of government as it picks and chooses its domestic adversaries.


10 posted on 05/04/2022 5:24:08 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Kaslin

Whoever that leak traces back to needs to be fired-—blacklisted—and never have a government job ever again.


11 posted on 05/04/2022 7:56:26 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: mewzilla

Pretty much EVERY institution is compromised.


12 posted on 05/04/2022 7:57:48 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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