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Justice Samuel Alito said that abortion policy crafted by elected representatives in the states would be more responsive to what constituents want than federal protection of the right. He was wrong.

Justice Samuel Alito said that abortion policy crafted by elected representatives in the states would be more responsive to what constituents want than federal protection of the right. He was wrong.

The Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, issued a ruling that overturned decades of constitutional abortion rights for women in the US. Scholars explain the significance of the decision.

By a 6 to 3 majority, the Supreme Court decided to overrule the landmark Roe decision and end almost 50 years of access to abortion being a constitution right.

A Supreme Court scholar untangles the ideas that undergird the historic ruling overturning the Constitutional right to an abortion.

Ask you a question that i posed to josh gerstein who broke the story at the top of the hour. from the ruling the way it is written and again this is a caveat, what appears to be a first draft opinion, and it will likely go through many other iterations, and lots of changes, before we ultimately get the ruling, but based on what weve got, this remarkable leak of a first draft, and the way that justice alito has constructed this argument, if this survives in, if this mostly survives intact, is the...

Supreme court and "politico," strike down the landmark roe v. wade decision, the draft opinion is a full unflynning repudiation which guaranteed constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision, planned parenthood v casey which largely maintained the right. roe was egregiously wrong from the start. we hold that roe and casey must be overturned. it is time to heed the constitution and return the issue of abortion to the peoples elected representatives. which as chris w...

Were going into a midterm season, where the republicans are poised to take the house and the senate, then, you know, president biden is still president biden and he will presumably veto such a measure, but in the event that we have a republican president in 2024, thats where wed be. we would be in a south america style nationwide abortion ban in america. >> just to be clear, it would be, and i cant know the future, you and i think agree, it would be the first bill, it would be the first bill, it...

Time line, after they got closing that a ruling like this is likely coming, we have now started to see, there used to be a taboo on saying that the doctors would go to prison and theyre saying yeah, the doctors, theyre not talking about this lightly, the doctors will go to prison but even more acutely, there used to be, until very recently, there was a taboo on saying that a woman raising a child who was raped or the victim of incest, at least they wouldnt be forced by the government to give bir...

The roe v. wade precedent. our understanding is most of the republican colleagues want to go ahead and take down roe v. wade. and that said, were at the beginning of may and the decision will not likely be published the until the end of june, maybe beginning of july so it is fair to say that it is a situation that is unresolved at this point and i cant promise you that various things may not change between now and late june. >> josh, in terms of the substance of this opinion as written, again, t...