Supreme Court 'Ripped Up The Constitution' And 'Defiled Precedent' In Leaked Draft Opinion Overturning Roe
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer spared no feelings in their takedown of the Supreme Court.
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If the report is accurate, the Supreme Court is poised to inflict the greatest restriction of rights in the past fifty years – not just on women but on all Americans.
The Republican-appointed Justices’ reported votes to overturn Roe v. Wade would go down as an abomination, one of the worst and most damaging decisions in modern history.
Several of these conservative Justices, who are in no way accountable to the American people, have lied to the U.S. Senate, ripped up the Constitution and defiled both precedent and the Supreme Court’s reputation – all at the expense of tens of millions of women who could soon be stripped of their bodily autonomy and the constitutional rights they’ve relied on for half a century.
— An excerpt from an impassioned joint statement released by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, in the wake of Politico’s report on a leaked draft opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito, suggesting that the Supreme Court will overrule abortion rights precedents set in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Pelosi and Schumer concluded by stating, “The party of Lincoln and Eisenhower has now completely devolved into the party of Trump. Every Republican Senator who supported Senator McConnell and voted for Trump Justices pretending that this day would never come will now have to explain themselves to the American people.”
Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.
