The Supremes agreed to take up a draconian Mississippi anti-abortion case next year. It will be decided before the 2022 election. If that majority is made up of true believers, as they all indicated they were, we could see the end of Roe vs Wade. If they decide to be political, there’s a chance they’ll find a way to simply reverse Casey and allow the states to put women through even more hell in order to get an abortion rather than throw it out completely.
On the other hand, the GOP politicians are pushing for the repeal. It appears they believe this is a winner for them — perhaps their voters will turn out in ecstatic celebration? (I doubt it. They are motivated by hatred of their enemies — which is why they love Trump, who expresses that hatred so vividly.)
Anyway:
Nearly 230 Republican members of Congress told the Supreme Court on Thursday that it should overturn Roe v. Wade and release its “vise grip on abortion politics.”The new brief is the latest filing in a dispute that will be heard next term and represents the most significant abortion-related case the justices have taken up in nearly a half a century. The 6-3 conservative court, bolstered by three of former President Donald Trump’s appointees, could gut, or invalidate court precedent, and that’s what the GOP lawmakers are calling for.”Congress and the States have shown that they are ready and able to address the issue in ways that reflect Americans’ varying viewpoints and are grounded in the science of fetal development and maternal health,” lawyers for 228 Republican lawmakers, including leadership in both chambers, told the justices.
Trump’s appointees are turning the Supreme Court to the right with different tacticsAt issue before the court is a Mississippi law that bars most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. There is no exception for rape or incest. The court will render its decision by next June, in the lead up to the mid-term elections.
The lawmakers, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, are supporting Mississippi’s request to allow the law to go into effect. They are represented by the group Americans United for Life.
In Thursday’s brief, they asked the court to “affirm the constitutional authority of the federal and state governments to safeguard the lives and health of their citizens, born and not yet born.”
Here’s the breakdown in public attitudes as of May of this year:
It’s very hard to know what they are really doing with this. But no matter what happens I think it’s going to be a very salient issue in 2022. Obviously GOPers are banking on it going their way and motivating their voters. The question, as always, is if it will motivate the Dems.