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roe v. wade according to our res shannon bream is that roe v. wade has been overturned and the question of abortion has been returned to the states. tucker: pandemonium ensued immediately in the headline of the babylon become democrats paused january 6th hearing to pause for insurrection and that is basically true but from a legal perspective, which is what matters, there is nothing surprising about today s decision. it s only a matter of time before roe v. wade was overturned. that s been obvious for decades. even democrats once acknowledged. roe was one of those decisions you never heard anyone defend on its own terms. lots of people want legal abortion but no one has ever explained how exactly the constitution guarantees that. roe was a political document, not a legal opinion and that its existence undermined the legitimacy of the supreme court. it was poison. the purpose of the supreme court a simple, it is to determine whether the laws the politicians pass are co ....
Right. it s also there s spouses which tend to be female and there are a lot of them and it is their dependents, half of which are female, if they are of a certain age. only 23% of young people and it s a shrinking number, quite alarming are eligible to join the armed forces and roughly half of those are women. why make service harder? but, what you re getting into is the decision of local and state legislatures. elected legislatures. many of these service men and women also vote and they can now vote on that issue. many of them frankly like to keep their voting registration in florida for tax, beaches and other reasons. you really are going down this road on one particular issue and we look, if the pentagon wants to do that we can broaden it to all kinds of issues. they don t get to choose where they live, but we can t start ....
It was poison. the purpose of the supreme court a simple, it is to determine whether the laws the politicians pass are consistent with the united states constitution. that is it, that is all the united states constitution does. with the supreme court should not do, cannot do never do is make law and it should never do that because court making laws would be by definition antidemocratic. none of the nine supreme court justices have been elected by anyone. all have lifetime appointments. if you cared about democracy and wanted democracy to continue you would demand that all laws in the united states to be passed by elected legislatures. again, no matter how you feel about abortion or any other specific issue. in democracy voters have the final word on how they are governed. that is what democracy is. now after nearly half a century, voters have had their rights restored on the question of abortion. if they like abortion, they can vote to legalize abortion. if they don t like abortion, th ....
Abortion will be illegal up until a certain point, right? it s up to the states, is what this draft opinion is suggesting. talk about that, because i want to get into other issues, and that is including the bullying and who leaked this to begin with. but first, stay on the substance of this right now. well, sure. the draft opinion, we don t know what the final opinion will be, but the draft opinion was written by justice sam alito, and a masterful opinion. it is careful, it is scholarly, it is historical. it walks through how for the first 185 years of our nation s history the question of abortion was decided by elected legislatures, decided primarily at the state level. and, listen, we all recognize abortion is an issue that is deeply personal, that is deeply motional, and it s an issue on which americans are sharply divided. there are very, very different views on what the appropriate rules should be. and for the first 185 years of ....