Last night, via leak, the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority said its quiet part loud: “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overturned,” Justice Samuel Alito writes in a draft opinion obtained by Politico.
Alito is of course referring to the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, as well as the slightly lesser-known Planned Parenthood v. Casey ruling in 1992 that mostly upheld the previously defined constitutional right to an abortion.
That protection is in serious jeopardy. Though a draft opinion isn’t a final one, the rare reveal of a preliminary court document has made a doomsday seem more imminent and sparked a new
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