New York Times reports conservative supreme court justice had no changes to 98-page draft of opinion that removed right to abortion

The conservative supreme court justice Neil Gorsuch took just 10 minutes to approve without changes a 98-page draft of the opinion that would remove the federal right to abortion that had been guaranteed for nearly 50 years, the New York Times reported.

According to the paper, Samuel Alito, the author of the opinion in Dobbs v Jackson, the case that struck down Roe v Wade, from 1973, circulated his draft at 11.16am on 10 February 2022.

Citing two people who saw communications between the justices, the Times said: “After a justice shares an opinion inside the court, other members scrutinise it. Those in the majority can request revisions, sometimes as the price of their votes, sweating sentences or even words.

“But this time, despite the document’s length, Justice Neil M Gorsuch wrote back just 10 minutes later to say that he would sign on to the opinion and had no changes.”

  • girlfreddy@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Instead of protecting the Constitution, specifically the 9th Amendment, the current SCOTUS is instead denying and disparaging the basic rights of all those people who can get pregnant.

    The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

    SCOTUS is either blind or bought off … or both.

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      11 months ago

      It’s a lot of people. If we add in all of those who can get someone pregnant but aren’t ready to be parents or who love someone whose life is affected by a problematic pregnancy, the number grows massively.

      But we don’t live in a representative democracy anymore.

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      11 months ago

      The 9th amendment? Those FedSoc fucks never read past the 2nd.

      And Gorsuch in particular disregards that pesky line in the 1st that separates church and state.

      Or maybe it’s that he denies the post Civil War incorporation of the Bill of Rights.

      Either way, he’s written about how he thinks it should be legal for States to have an official religion (his own).