Open Thread | Inside Account of How Roe Was Overturned

Everyone who had eleven billionty reasons why they couldn’t vote for Hillary in 2016 is to blame for this.
Period.

You couldn’t be scared into voting for Hillary by us telling you the Supreme Court was on the line.
You dismissed us as hysterical.

Read this account about the fall of Roe from the New York Times.

Behind the Scenes at the Dismantling of Roe v. Wade

By Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak
Dec. 15, 2023

On Feb. 10 last year, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. showed his eight colleagues how he intended to uproot the constitutional right to abortion.

At 11:16 a.m., his clerk circulated a 98-page draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. After a justice shares an opinion inside the court, other members scrutinize 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, according to two people who reviewed the messages. The next morning, Justice Clarence Thomas added his name, then Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and days later, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh. None requested a single alteration. The responses looked like a display of conservative force and discipline.

In the months since, that draft turned into a leak, then law, then the rare Supreme Court decision that affects the entire country, reshaping elections, the practice of medicine and a fundamental aspect of being female. The story of how this happened has seemed obvious: The constitutional right to abortion effectively died with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whom President Donald J. Trump replaced with a favorite of the anti-abortion movement, Justice Barrett.

But that version is far from complete. Justice Barrett, selected to clinch the court’s conservative supermajority and deliver the nearly 50-year goal of the religious right, opposed even taking up the case. When the jurists were debating Mississippi’s request to hear it, she first voted in favor — but later switched to a no, according to several court insiders and a written tally. Four male justices, a minority of the court, chose to move ahead anyway, with Justice Kavanaugh providing the final vote.

Those dynamics help explain why the responses stacked up so speedily to the draft opinion in February 2022: Justice Alito appeared to have pregamed it among some of the conservative justices, out of view from other colleagues, to safeguard a coalition more fragile than it looked.

Read the rest of it at the link above.

So, you who couldn’t vote for Hillary in 2016 are not only responsible for this…but, all the other judges that Trump was able to fill in our Judiciary. All those right-wing, Federalist Society judges that they judge shop now when they want to turn back to the clock on everyone’s rights who isn’t a straight White man.

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31 Responses to Open Thread | Inside Account of How Roe Was Overturned

  1. rikyrah says:

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  2. rikyrah says:

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  3. rikyrah says:

    Anna Bower (@AnnaBower) posted at 10:32 AM on Tue, Dec 19, 2023:
    Lawyers for Trevian Kutti—one of Trump’s co-defendants in Fulton County—move to withdraw as her counsel.

    The filing comes weeks after Kutti made disparaging remarks about a witness in the case on Instagram. https://t.co/7xAQ1MObAB
    (https://x.com/AnnaBower/status/1737148961549361414?s=03)

  4. rikyrah says:

    Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) posted at 11:03 AM on Tue, Dec 19, 2023:
    How Trump Is Laying The Groundwork For A Coopted Military, Now And In 2025 https://t.co/ekBxD9Mv8y via @TPM
    (https://x.com/joshtpm/status/1737156658508316972?s=03)

  5. rikyrah says:

    umichvoter 🏳️‍🌈 (@umichvoter) posted at 2:06 AM on Tue, Dec 19, 2023:
    “I want to show the Democratic Party as a young person that you need to earn our vote and if you don’t, the consequences will be your career” “A republican getting elected isn’t the end. It is the beginning of a much larger right”

    José (@josecanyousee) posted at 9:45 AM on Tue, Dec 19, 2023:
    MacKenzie isn’t happy with Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war. So, their solution is to give the worst person an opportunity to handle? The logic isn’t logicking.
    (https://x.com/josecanyousee/status/1737137198166876175?s=03)

  6. rikyrah says:

    The Spry Old Lorax (@SpryOld) posted at 10:23 AM on Tue, Dec 19, 2023:
    We need BOTH the White House and the Senate for the next TEN YEARS so that Republicans don’t have an opportunity to seat a Supreme Court Justice, or to block the seating of a Democratic nominee.

    If we can do this, we can restore the SCOTUS to a 5-4 sane majority. THINK LONG TERM
    (https://x.com/SpryOld/status/1737146646830440543?s=03)

  7. rikyrah says:

    Manu Raju (@mkraju) posted at 10:46 AM on Tue, Dec 19, 2023:
    Schumer says Senate “will not leave town” until 11 military nominees blocked by Tuberville are confirmed. Tuberville had said he wants cloture and confirmation votes per nominee — meaning 22 votes (about 22 hours of votes). But he could concede and let them be confirmed quickly
    (https://x.com/mkraju/status/1737152540385366170?s=03)

  8. rikyrah says:

    Victor Shi (@Victorshi2020) posted at 7:21 PM on Sun, Dec 17, 2023:
    Holy cow. A student directly confronted a founder of Moms for Liberty for getting involved in a threesome after attacking his “sexual immorality” as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. THIS is why we love Gen Z. He made her find out bad. So freaking good.

    https://t.co/Z5uTZvqqbv
    (https://x.com/Victorshi2020/status/1736557259881099418?t=n4n9iVPYChU0cwoQ1Wxbsg&s=03)

  9. rikyrah says:

    truth

    Marmel (@Marmel) posted at 2:16 PM on Sat, Dec 16, 2023:
    Conservatives saw Lizzo play James Madison’s flute and lost their minds.

    Conservatives saw a black woman joyfully dance in the White House halls and lost their minds.

    Conservatives saw a black president and his wonderful family and lost their minds.

    It’s not about the dance.
    (https://x.com/Marmel/status/1736118206694391867?t=VuDa_I2zkGLePORu6qjwcQ&s=03)

  10. rikyrah says:

    THIS is systematic racism.

    Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) posted at 2:32 PM on Sat, Dec 16, 2023:
    A CNN analysis found that Navy Federal Credit Union — the largest credit union in the U.S. — rejected MORE THAN HALF of Black conventional mortgage borrowers in 2022, compared to approving 75% of white borrowers. The disparity is bigger than any other large mortgage lender!
    (https://x.com/AttorneyCrump/status/1736122021741048006?t=RXAlccRPA2H-gFxQc5ZnQA&s=03)

  11. rikyrah says:

    Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר (@AnshelPfeffer) posted at 4:08 PM on Tue, Dec 12, 2023:
    What’s happening in the last two days is Netanyahu consciously squandering what little international support Israel has (mainly from the US) to continue the war against Hamas in a vain attempt to save his own political career by picking a fight with Biden> https://t.co/zLlNjxZT0N
    (https://x.com/AnshelPfeffer/status/1734696741935501806?t=A4sK_TzizzQgZFxKWsKC9g&s=03)

  12. rikyrah says:

    Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר (@AnshelPfeffer) posted at 4:16 PM on Tue, Dec 12, 2023:
    This is the 3rd time Netanyahu has tried to leverage a dispute with a US president for domestic political gain. He tried it with both Clinton and Obama. (He didn’t dare do it with Trump). It worked with Obama and failed with Clinton > https://t.co/zLlNjxZT0N
    (https://x.com/AnshelPfeffer/status/1734698675983503472?t=XhBlP0VHznWbHiFoeHmOcA&s=03)

  13. rikyrah says:

    ProPublica (@propublica) posted at 8:00 AM on Sun, Dec 17, 2023:
    One Indiana store demonstrates how the 60,000+ gun retailers in America have little financial incentive to say no to questionable buyers — and face limited penalties for failing to prevent illegal transactions. https://t.co/08aMiuInQT
    (https://x.com/propublica/status/1736385824122368168?t=icybRXX9byWHl0O9XMS8KQ&s=03)

  14. rikyrah says:

    Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) posted at 11:09 AM on Sat, Dec 16, 2023:
    Hillary nails it again. As she correctly points out, Joe Biden isn’t an entertainer, he just wakes up every day and does his job responsibly. https://t.co/ZysqLvQoCS
    (https://x.com/ChrisDJackson/status/1736071096040890582?t=omQFcfhV5fVwdtlPiGJfzA&s=03)

  15. rikyrah says:

    UH HUH
    UH HUH

    The Daily Tar Heel (@dailytarheel) posted at 10:10 AM on Fri, Dec 15, 2023:
    BREAKING: Lee Roberts will be UNC’s interim chancellor, beginning Jan. 12. Roberts is on the UNC Board of Governors and worked as state budget director under Republican Gov. Pat McCrory. He has no professional administrative experience in higher education.
    https://t.co/lG0SWNdTEW
    (https://x.com/dailytarheel/status/1735693727178572286?t=ATYL814UzU5T8loUYEZB1Q&s=03)

  16. rikyrah says:

    grifters, all

    John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) posted at 7:37 AM on Sun, Dec 17, 2023:
    “Suggestions by some in the DeSantis orbit that they were cashing in on the race also stung, according to people familiar with Never Back Down” https://t.co/6o4Lgx26Am
    (https://x.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1736380219261423897?t=czClKjCHwfaQDrRlwswVHg&s=03)

  17. rikyrah says:

    Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) posted at 10:16 PM on Sat, Dec 16, 2023:
    BREAKING: Two more sexual assault claims have surfaced against Matt Schlapp, the influential chairman of the American Conservative Union. These sexual assaults apparently took place before the incident when a male GOP staffer accused Schlapp of fondling him without his consent… https://t.co/0qAIjwKHc6
    (https://x.com/joncoopertweets/status/1736239005044215983?t=kPZrk0OfVk7yCHjbaGG-LQ&s=03)

  18. rikyrah says:

    Jacob N. Kornbluh (@jacobkornbluh) posted at 1:15 AM on Sun, Dec 17, 2023:
    Hebrew University poll: 71% of Israelis, including 45% of those who voted for the Likud ruling party, think Netanyahu must resign immediately after the end of the military campaign in Gaza. https://t.co/yULrol2sGr
    (https://x.com/jacobkornbluh/status/1736283990909215024?t=wf90RYa1RpJ4xKd6Y8O6nw&s=03)

  19. rikyrah says:

    Portia ♍️ McGonagal Same On 🐳 (@PortiaMcGonagal) posted at 8:09 AM on Sun, Dec 17, 2023:
    Vile. This is what we’re up against and too many people are complicit.

    Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest Is Infested with Antisemitism https://t.co/st47PoYl76 via @RollingStone
    (https://x.com/PortiaMcGonagal/status/1736388265849303069?t=3xLvB2hxCEtGaxIB1sycUA&s=03)

  20. rikyrah says:

    Mark Zandi (@Markzandi) posted at 2:43 PM on Sun, Dec 17, 2023:
    As 2023 comes to an end, it is increasingly clear that not only did the economy avoid a widely anticipated recession, but it was also a great year for the economy. Real GDP is on track to grow a heady 2.5%, unemployment has remained below 4%, and inflation has quickly receded.
    (https://x.com/Markzandi/status/1736487357657022504?t=ysfwZ69szHfjPMga6dIJeg&s=03)

  21. rikyrah says:

    FeMaiden🧪🥽👩🏻‍🔬🥼 (@WithChem) posted at 11:48 PM on Sat, Dec 16, 2023:
    Updated information on Brittney Watts’ case. Unfuckingbelievable.
    Ladies, if at ALL possible, avoid religiously affiliated hospitals.
    And, fuck that bitch nurse. https://t.co/CcXhYxSCxn
    (https://x.com/WithChem/status/1736261972331507936?t=KXSniX8z2phJ_FBl38p59Q&s=03)

  22. rikyrah says:

    Ghost of Shamble Bangs (@Drea_got_banned) posted at 6:48 AM on Sun, Dec 17, 2023:
    IMPORTANT!!!🚨🚨If you are a woman living in a RED STATE and If you miscarry at home DO NOT go to a religiously affiliated hospital “Baptist” or anything with “Saint” in the name!!

    THEY WILL CALL THE COPS ON YOU!!
    (https://x.com/Drea_got_banned/status/1736367775830982801?t=79Fb55Te7_FYJICHkv8QRA&s=03)

  23. rikyrah says:

    Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) posted at 10:52 AM on Sun, Dec 17, 2023:
    Anyone who might be thinking that Nikki Haley doesn’t seem “so bad”, needs to watch this.
    Kate Cox was carrying a nonviable fetus and she had to flee her state to seek medical care which very well may have saved her life.
    Nikki: ‘sounds right to me.’
    https://t.co/7CYaX4maZu
    (https://x.com/JoJoFromJerz/status/1736429075298738191?t=Fun7nyo_wKBmSFxsxovqkg&s=03)

  24. rikyrah says:

    Gerrick Kennedy (@GerrickKennedy) posted at 3:03 PM on Sun, Dec 17, 2023:
    The budget for Wonka was
    $125 million…but it gets framed as having a charming opening, meanwhile a Marvel film gets the best opening weekend for a Black female director and it was eviscerated as a flop. Wild.
    (https://x.com/GerrickKennedy/status/1736492430911066554?t=rMF_k70f72EC-umi7X6R4A&s=03)

  25. rikyrah says:

    Candidly Tiff (@tify330) tweeted at 0:51 PM on Sun, Dec 17, 2023:
    We need more convos/segments like this on cable news. Biden Harris campaign/DNC/Surrogates/Supporters need to get this info to the people. The receipts are there but too many don’t know they exist.
    (https://twitter.com/tify330/status/1736459195472384178?s=02)

  26. rikyrah says:

    Florida Chris (@chrislongview) tweeted at 0:03 PM on Sun, Dec 17, 2023:
    dear white parents…
    the supreme court took away your right to blame your kid’s college rejections on Black people.

    those republican justices are forcing you to accept that your child is mediocre and you’re the only one to blame.

    punish them at the ballot box.
    (https://twitter.com/chrislongview/status/1736447106569695544?s=02)

  27. rikyrah says:

    Portia ♍️ McGonagal Same On 🐳 (@PortiaMcGonagal) tweeted at 0:45 PM on Sun, Dec 17, 2023:
    Likewise, dear Asian parents,
    Your kids still aren’t getting in and the presumptive GOP nominee who goaded you to blame Black people doesn’t even want immigrants from Asia in the country, far less in elite colleges.
    (https://twitter.com/PortiaMcGonagal/status/1736457522352210349?s=02)

  28. rikyrah says:

    18 GOP-held Biden districts targeted to flip blue (@Needle_of_Arya) tweeted at 0:46 PM on Sun, Dec 17, 2023:
    the Supreme Court getting rid of affirmative action in college admissions is liberating in one way, because the colonizer can no longer blame Black people for their own mediocrity

    the colonizer will now undoubtedly come after the Asians they’d used to end the old system
    (https://twitter.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1736457751180480953?s=02)

  29. rikyrah says:

    Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) tweeted at 10:37 AM on Sun, Dec 17, 2023:
    Q: Kate Cox was forbidden from having an abortion even though her doctor said it might jeopardize her fertility & the fetus was unlikely to survive. Do you disagree with that?

    Haley: I think overturning Roe v. Wade was the right thing and I appreciate that Texas banned abortion https://t.co/JsG6Gk4ZH5
    (https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1736425390933979140?s=02)

  30. rikyrah says:

    I didn’t know that Poison was a Christmas song🤔

    But, these kids are getting down😂😂😂

    Someone in the comments said that you.have to watch it.over and over to watch each individual child😂😂😂

    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8HLLPhE/

  31. rikyrah says:

    Good Morning Everyone 😊😊😊

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