Leaked draft re: Roe v Wade

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the Democrats need to start playing as dirtily as the Republicans

Protesting will do no good, they have already decided.

Protesting? This is an insurrection. This is a direct attack on American democracy and the legal system and the darkest day in American history. Americans must petition their representatives to come down hard on these anti-American terrorists.

Barrett was probably the only one. Sotomayor and Kagan are both pro-abortion, and Brown-Jackson hasn't been sworn in yet.

I know of quite a lot of conservative females who are against abortion too. So the question is, is the conservative agenda worse or better than the liberal agenda?

Chief Justice John Roberts says the Supreme Court will investigate the release of a draft opinion that would strike down Roe v. Wade and called the episode "a singular and egregious breach" of trust.

"This was a singular and egregious breach of that trust that is an affront to the Court and the community of public servants who work here. I have directed the Marshal of the Court to launch an investigation into the source of the leak," Roberts said in a statement Tuesday.

"To the extent this betrayal of the confidences of the Court was intended to undermine the integrity of our operations, it will not succeed," Roberts said. "The work of the Court will not be affected in any way. We at the Court are blessed to have a workforce -- permanent employees and law clerks alike -- intensely loyal to the institution and dedicated to the rule of law. Court employees have an exemplary and important tradition of respecting the confidentiality of the judicial process and upholding the trust of the Court."

The court's public affairs office confirmed the document published by Politico is "authentic," but stressed that "it does not represent a decision by the Court or the final position of any member on the issues in the case."

The draft opinion's leak sent shockwaves through Washington, with the news of the potential overturning of Roe drawing outrage from Democrats that rivaled the anger expressed by Republicans over the breach of the high court's secrecy norms.

President Joe Biden said Tuesday that a woman's right to have an abortion is "fundamental" following Politico's report, and urged Congress to pass legislation codifying Roe, which was decided in 1973 and established a constitutional right to abortion before fetal viability.

"Roe has been the law of the land for almost fifty years, and basic fairness and the stability of our law demand that it not be overturned," he said in a statement.

Congressional Democrats issued similar statements Tuesday related to the draft opinion, but their counterparts zeroed in on the purported leak, blasting the move as an effort to change the court's final decision in the matter.

"Somebody, likely somebody inside the court itself, leaked a confidential internal draft to the press, almost certainly in an effort to stir up an inappropriate pressure campaign to sway an outcome," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in remarks on the Senate floor. The Kentucky Republican also called for a probe into the leak.

Following the publication of the draft late Monday, protesters descended on areas outside the Supreme Court and have remained there through Tuesday afternoon. Many have held signs in support of abortion rights, and the crowd has occasionally chanted in opposition to the draft ruling, including by saying: "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Samuel Alito's gotta go," and "Abortion rights are under attack, what do we do, stand up fight back."

Now does everybody understand why I'm trying to move to Seattle?!?!?!

It was a leak from the right to stop Kavanaugh from defecting
It’s designed to make the ruling as drastic as possible
It’s a leak from the left to influence Roberts
It was Roberts
It’s designed to blunt the liberal reaction to the final decision — or serve as a distraction