Could The Days of Roe v. Wade Be Numbered?
BY Herschel Smith
2 years, 8 months ago
Via PJM.
See also Townhall.
See also Daily Wire.
I suspect the leak was from a clerk of one of the communist justices, and perhaps by a clerk for Roberts. I also expect Roberts to side with the communists.
The intent, of course, is to pressure the court to change, and/or to pressure Congress for a law in order to render the decision moot.
If the Congress becomes involved, I expect some states will ignore Congress and do what they want. Then I expect Congress to withhold funds for all sorts of things, after which those states will further separate from FedGov.
Some states will keep it, of course, and some states will legalize worship services to Baal on the steps of their capitols while they kill babies in vats of boiling oil.
The Balkanization of America will continue apace, and issues such as gun rights, abortion and taxes will continue to render decisions made in Washington less relevant. You get to pick your state.
If the majority stands strong, this isn’t a huge win on the national level, but it is for states who will now determine what sort of society they want to live in.
The difficulty here is that a Balkanized America isn’t separated by geography so much. The admixture is ready-made and tailored for conflict, I’m afraid, with neighbors and cities right down the road from each other finding themselves on far different sides of all of these issues.
Be careful. This is a setup for the country to tire of the conflict and demand for a strong man (or a stronger centralized government) to step in and bring peace on earth and global income for all men.
On May 2, 2022 at 9:57 pm, PGF said:
Biblical sarcasm, (sarcastically mocking government and society by using bible imagery and concepts) needs to become a thing. This post is great.
On May 3, 2022 at 12:55 am, Georgiaboy61 said:
@ Herschel Smith
Re: “The difficulty here is that a Balkanized America isn’t separated by geography so much. The admixture is ready-made and tailored for conflict, I’m afraid, with neighbors and cities right down the road from each other finding themselves on far different sides of all of these issues.”
The relentless and mind-numbing Cultural Marxist propaganda which seems to surround us these days states that “diversity is our strength,” but a dispassionate reading of history tells us precisely the opposite. Indeed, someone coined a useful inverse phrase, which is much more-accurate: “Proximity + diversity = war.”
Homogeneous societies score much higher on measures of general and individual welfare, such as social cohesion, interpersonal trust, and happiness. Heterogeneous societies, on the other hand, tend towards greater interpersonal friction due to different languages, customs, traditions and ways of life within them, as well as sectarian and racial-ethnic differences.
It is germane to note that there are examples of multicultural and highly heterogeneous societies which have worked, or worked for a time. Even some which have worked well, but these tend to be the exception rather than the rule. It is much easier to find historical examples of such societies in conflict than ones at peace.
World War One is perhaps the prototypical example of how heterogeneous societies or regions are much more-prone to dissolve into conflict, chaos and even war. Indeed, the scholarly term “Balkanization” comes from the region of southeast Europe in which the Great War began, which had for centuries prior been a bubbling cauldron of different tribes, ethnicities, religions, languages, cultures, ethnicities and races.
Re: “Be careful. This is a setup for the country to tire of the conflict and demand for a strong man (or a stronger centralized government) to step in and bring peace on earth and global income for all men.”
That is a trenchant observation. Tribal societies such as those in the Middle East and Africa, especially those with a large number of different ones confined within a given geographic region, are often only organized and governed – ruled would be a better word – by a very strong central government. Despots and dictators abound.
This is one of the possible end games of turning the United States into a tribal, multi-ethnic society whose residents have less-and-less in common with one another: The need for the “strong man on horseback,” a Napoleon, Mussolini or Castro or similar sort of figure.
A final observation: The British and French empires, at their peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, used tribalism and the frictions between different groups to their advantage in maintaining their respective colonies and settlements in Africa, Asia and elsewhere. At Versailles in 1919, lines were drawn on maps in places like the Middle East, heedless of the natural and organic lines dividing Sunni from Shi’ite, Persian from Arab, and so on – as the victorious Allies divided up the booty for themselves. The 21st century Middle East is still suffering from numerous such arbitrary divisions, long after the British and French departed for the last time.
On May 3, 2022 at 2:32 am, Chris said:
Pretty Convenient Timing.
I wonder if SCOTUS is smart enough to mark or microdot there documents as other branches of govt have gone to.
Sure would like to see the Original “Leaked” Document.
On May 3, 2022 at 4:14 am, WiscoDave said:
Things are about to get mostly peaceful…
On May 3, 2022 at 5:29 am, WiscoDave said:
“The leak is real, the news is fake”
Interesting take here:
https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1521342137316556803?cxt=HHwWhoCyyaGn8pwqAAAA
On May 3, 2022 at 6:17 am, Wes said:
I would not put it past them that this (draft from back in February) is a ploy to mobilize more base/single-issue votes as battlefield prep for the upcoming trip to the woodshed in November. They have lost support from many on their own side, but a single hot issue makes a good rallying cry and distracts from the criminal behavior of the regime in nearly all other issues.
On May 3, 2022 at 8:23 am, George 1 said:
@Wes,
I agree. That is exactly their plan.
On May 3, 2022 at 8:52 am, Frank Clarke said:
Every time an issue like this arises, I hear Mike Vanderboegh’s voice saying “…two different people occupying the same land…”
On May 3, 2022 at 10:57 am, Glenn said:
Nothing absolutely nothing that’s been happening in this country is coincidence it is orchestrated it is dangerous and it is the demonic
On May 3, 2022 at 3:07 pm, Sisu said:
I wonder if the newest partisan member jackson was given a copy as a step in her introduction to the court. While she has not been sworn in, as breyer is not retiring until the end of the current term, she may have been given access as an observer of the justices’ process.
Separately, Jonathan Turley made an interesting observation. The controls over access to such draft opinions, and preliminary votes, is closely controlled and strictly limited. Thus as each authorized person is asked if they breached the trust a false answer would constitute perjury and / or obstruction. … At a minimum perhaps they will be some high profile resignations. … Would be something if jackson is never sworn in.
On May 3, 2022 at 11:30 pm, X said:
No question in my mind whatsoever the draft opinion was deliberately leaked by Sotomayor through one of her clerks. No way a clerk would do it without the tacit approval of a justice.
I’m certain it is Sotomayor because she is the absolute dumbest, least qualified and most political hack on the Court. She is a lifelong affirmative-action recipient, nominated by another lifelong affirmative-action recipient. She is totally out of her league and she knows it, every single day. Her “jurisprudence,” if you can call it that, is totally results-oriented, not based on objective legal principles.
The frightening thing is that this leak was clearly intended to foment riots and to give the media the opportunity to destroy the justices in the majority in the hope that some of the members of the majority will bow to the pressure and reverse themselves before the opinion is finalized and issued to the public.