Government is ignoring processes and right at all levels to some degree. I sympathize with the idea that rule of law has become a joke since nobody can enforce it on the people in power.
Which, while perhaps unethical to someone on the other side of the political debate, doesn't contravene any rules as far as I'm aware. Same here, so I think the leak is fine.
RBG could have retired earlier when democrats had majority but probably for some selfish reason she did not do that.
His did.
I've made it myself.
Again: it did not subvert process or go against precedent. Numerous justices have long-overstayed their terms.
If people dont vote for the opposition party then what exactly can the opposition do when they dont have the majority?
Now, the justices will be facing intense public discontent from those who want a different decision to be made before the draft is finalized (not that I suspect anything can realistically be changed at this point).
If you favor the decision, then it also speaks to money not getting a significant motivating factor (taking money to leak would betray someone they are supporting, which seems less than likely).
By this line of reasoning, I am assuming it was done by someone who deeply opposes the result.
When members do not have a way to change their opinion and save face, they won't change their opinion.
Politico should have been more thoughtful about its disclosure if they preferred to see changes because now the names on that opinion will never change and we could very well see the exact language become the published opinion.
They are humans that have to live in society just like the rest of us. No one is completely invulnerable to society. I imagine being the target of some of these radical abortion groups (anti or pro) would be scary, especially for officials that are normally not in the limelight.
These are federal supreme court justices that rule on often (by the nature of the cases they receive) controversial topics constantly. It's not a position you take if you value privacy.
I'm sure now it's especially dangerous, but I don't think this is a novel factor in their life at this point.
Pro-life / anti-abortion people believe that a fetus is a unique human life; from their perspective, that's 60 million murders committed against the unborn.
Of course, for any who do not think a fetus is a living human, it is a hollow argument.
Seems to be working quite well, I'd say a success overall.
Yes, there is. You potentially lock in someone who’s been waffling on their final vote by making their initial vote public.
Edit: No, no law is “settled” and impossible to overturn. The comment said “casually overturned”, not “never overturned”.
It’s how it’s supposed to work
You don’t get to pick and choose what decisions you like and then attack the ones you don’t. If you do you undermine the decisions you don’t agree with AND the ones you do.”
And again, there is nothing stopping Congress from turning around and passing a new abortion law that maintains the status quo.
It may not be perfect but if you don’t respect the process then you might as well throw the whole system out the window.
Stare decisis, aka precedent.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/is-roe-v-wade-settled-la...
"During his confirmation to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh convinced Sen. Susan Collins that he thought a woman’s right to an abortion was 'settled law,' calling the court cases affirming it 'precedent on precedent' that could not be casually overturned."
https://theconversation.com/the-supreme-court-has-overturned...
> A person familiar with the court’s deliberations said that four of the other Republican-appointed justices – Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett – had voted with Alito in the conference held among the justices after hearing oral arguments in December, and that line-up remains unchanged as of this week.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/21/brett-kavanaugh-ro...
> “We talked about whether he considered Roe to be settled law,” Collins told reporters. “He said that he agreed with what [Chief] Justice [John] Roberts said at his nomination hearing in which he said that it was settled law.”
Lisa Murkowski now openly claims to have been misled by the nominees, as well. https://twitter.com/SamanthaJoRoth/status/152152291819859148...
> degressing(?)
regressing ("deteriorating" or "degenerating" could also work)
Sure I do. This one hurts people and is being decided by a broken court, formed by illigitimate means.
Nothing except Congress being useless. When empty land gets to vote, and half of it votes against functioning government, unsurprisingly nothing gets done.
At that point the Court itself is fubar. It probably already is fubar since Trump anyway. Clarence Thomas and his wife’s Jan 6th involvement is just the cherry on top of a shit show.
In the end they are falliable humans like the rest of us so perhaps we hold too high an opinion.
Roe is so bad that it has long united libertarian conservatives (who hate it because it makes up a right out of thin air) and social conservatives (who had abortion on the merits).
In addition to that it manages to be wildly out of line with international norms, which:
1) Generally recognize abortion as an issue for the legislature.
2) Typically draw the line for elective abortions at the end of the first trimester, not viability. The abortion laws in Denmark, Germany, Italy, France, and Spain would be unconstitutional under Roe.
Isn't our take on freedom of speech rather out of line with international norms? And probably also our take on bearing arms being a right?
I don't think I buy the implied claim that being out of line with norms is necessarily a bad thing.
I'm not following how you think these are comparable.
And even if accepting this framing -- which "process" exactly has been undermined? Has someone suggested stripping the courts of jurisdiction for certain cases? Have the courts been defunded or had their staffers taken away? Have the number of courts been reduced or the justices circulated to another court? These are all "process" changes well within the power of the other political branches, that aren't happening here.
In short -- quit changing the topic and perhaps read the draft opinion, which waxes philosophically about the value of public debate on controversial opinions.
Are you aware of “separation of powers”?
Are you aware that no such leak has ever occurred before it interferes with judicial independence?
Are you aware that the courts job is to decide if laws are constitutional/valid and Congress’ job to actually create law?
You hand wave away “process” when the entire function of the government is based on process.
If you throw away process you throw away the entire system.
Specifically -- are you aware that before the Roe v. Wade decision was released in 1973, that news of the decision leaked to the Washington Post? The idea that this has "never occurred" is absurd when a) it has, b) it literally happened in the case that this will overturn.
Are you aware that there was a series of leaks during the Berger court and that everything ended up fine?
> Judicial independence, separation of powers
If the leak came from within the judiciary, how does this threaten the independence of the court?
The courts will make a decision and then it's up to Congress to draft new laws if it wants.
Undermining the process of the judicial branch is not going to end well at all.