‘Roe v. Wade was on a collision course with the Constitution from the day it was decided.’
Excerpts from Justice Alito’s draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Roe found that the Constitution implicitly conferred a right to obtain an abortion, but it failed to ground its decision in text, history, or precedent.
It relied on an erroneous historical narrative; it devoted great attention to and presumably relied on matters that have no bearing on the ‘meaning of the Constitution; it disregarded the fundamental difference between the precedents on which it relied and the question before the Court; it concocted an elaborate set of rules, with different restrictions for each trimester of pregnancy, but it did not explain how this veritable code could be teased out of anything in the Constitution, the history of abortion laws, prior precedent, or any other cited source; and its most important rule (that States cannot protect fetal life prior to “viability”) was never raised by any party and has never been plausibly explained.
Overuling precedent
Some of our most important constitutional decisions have overruled prior precedents. … In Brown. v. Board of Education, the Court repudiated the “separate but equal” doctrine, which had allowed States to maintain racially segregated schools and other facilities. In so doing, the Court overruled the infamous decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U. S. 537 (1896), along with six other Supreme Court precedents that had applied the separate-but-equal rule.
Roe legislated from the bench
[Roe’s] elaborate [trimester] scheme was the Court’s own brainchild. Neither party advocated the trimester framework; nor did either party or any amicus argue that “viability” should ‘mark the point at which the scope of the abortion right and a State’s regulatory authority should be substantially transformed. … This scheme resemble[d] the work of a legislature. …
Roe certainly did not succeed in ending division on the issue of abortion. On the contrary, Roe “inflamed” a national issue that has remained bitterly divisive for the past half-century. … Indeed, in this case, 26 states expressly ask us to overrule Roe and Casey and return the issue of abortion to the people and their elected representatives.
Blaska Policy Werkes 
LOLOLOLOL! Left toads heads are exploding right now!!!! T squared for ever!!!
The original back slapper and eternal optimist!
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Will he be under pressure to remove Abe Lincoln from Bascom Hill? Is that next?
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Well……….that ends our dreams of down-sizing the system to reflect the reality of population changes.
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How come walker didn’t throw his hat in the ring. Oh yeah; I remember now.
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Yup. Walker will be earning $600K+ in his new job. Thompson settled for only $430K. Damn generous of him.
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PRACTITIONER of a common fishing technique where a baited line is dragged behind a forward-moving watercraft DETECTED
For The LUV Of God TROLT, If You Have Nothing To Add Then STF Up!
The Gotch
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One more thing:
RECALL ICHABOD EVERS!!!!
The Gotch
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As much I would like the figurehead Evers out, a recall would backfire like it did against Walker. The republican party needs to focus on getting Attorney General, and keeping and adding to legislature numbers. Then get another candidate that hopefully can go toe to toe and align itself correctly with Police, Fire union endorsements. If large blue cities mayors and councils keep aligning themselves will the fascist anti-fascists that may end up being a real possibility. We need a real messenger and currently I see Zero on the conservative side that can hold up to the onslaught of hourly negative headlines that is generated on a daily basis.
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