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
0 always had an interest in the court. it s sort of a resting moment, because the code of a maritime on that institution is so strong, and so powerful, the both the substance of what is being leaked, here in the both the substance of what is being leaked here and then the communicative signaling happening in the fact of the leak is a very, is almost sort of emotional at some deep level because of what it signifies. yeah, and i mean when you re just speaking with erica, you booked her today to talk about the new reporting that republicans in washington have been debating and planning, on proposing a nationwide abortion ban, you know, a six-week abortion ban which is effectively a complete ban on abortion in the united states, and if this ruling is going, we re 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