establishing a new law that full out, full on banned abortion in its entirety in every state in the country in every instance? well, it s a draft decision, and it doesn t really get into the issue of what the federal government s power i think would be in this area. so i think it certainly leaves that open as a possibility. it might be other obstacles to that, like the legislative filibuster we still have, at least for the time being in the united states senate. but, there are points which illegal tries to suggest that this won t bring all the scenery down. if we move away from abortion to other privacy base rights, such as contraception, rights like gay marriage, he does try to wring fans this in, and say all we are talking about is abortion. he mentions that several times. and he suggests that it shouldn t be stretched and other areas. that s that, i m old enough to know that the court many times has said, don t try to apply our opinion on x to the
statement this morning on this situation right now as it relates to roe v. wade. and we could also hear from the president directly as he leaves the white house at 10:30 this morning. the white house made a practice of not commenting on leaked documents in the past. i would be surprised if they comment on this draft decision. but i think we can expect the white house and the president himself as well to reiterate what they have said before, the president during his state of the union address talked about the fact that roe v. wade is under attack, under assault like never before and we have also seen the president and the white house repeatedly reiterate in statements that they do want to see roe v. wade codified as the law of the land through legislation. that s unlikely to happen right now, of course, given the current makeup of the senate, of the fact that the filibuster is still in existence. but we know that the white house has also been preparing for this moment, brianna. they hav
out, full on banned abortion in its entirety in every state in the country in every instance? well, it s a draft decision and it doesn t really get into the issue of what the federal government s power i think would be in this area. so i think it certainly leaves that open, as a possibility. there might be other obstacles to that, like the legislative filibuster we still have, at least for the time being, in the united states senate. but there are points at which alito tries to suggest that this won t bring all of the scenery down, that we move away from abortion to other privacy-based rights such as contraception right, like gay marriage. he does try to ring fence this opinion and say all we re talking about is abortion. he mentions that several times. and he suggests that it shouldn t be stretched into other areas. that said, i m old enough to know that the court many times has said don t try to apply our opinion on x, to the situation
roe v. wade actively with abortion all nine months without any limit and now since then, there have been dozens of states that have tried to put limits in place and had trouble doing that. so roe v. wade does receive this huge blow and in fact from a real decision coming down the pie, it would mean that they could finally have abortion pans that they been wanting to have for decades. and that liberty of the states and also for the rights of children and the women who deserve the right to life just like you and me. carley: you know, reading through the bombshell politico report the the author says no draft decision in the history of the court disclosed publicly while the case is pending. it goes on to say the unprecedented revelation bound to debate over what was the most controversial case on the talk at this term. they certainly got that right. this leak is supposed to
authenticity of the document. the supreme courts that declined to comment. this morning we spoke with josh gerstein who broke the news and former acting solicitor general neal cattal and barbara mcquade and john meacham on how this decision could test our democracy. the crisis of trust and institutions has just become universal. in a way that is pretty much the night here scenario if you believe in the ultimate efficacy of the constitutional order to produce a more perfect union, right. to protect the jeffersonian assertion of equality, to protect the rule of law for all its imperfections, the system has been worth defending for 250 years. right now if this draft decision, if the court were to go this far, you will have, as