pointed by presidents who didn t win the popular vote, and one case by president who had already been impeached. it doesn t matter, because once you ve got power, you can use it to wreck everything, because stare decisis doesn t exist, and whatever we d say has to go, goes and we have the power to do, it and how you gonna respond? we it s a challenge on the legitimacy and credibility claims of the court, that implies that battle is over. that they re no longer trying to appeal to people, respecting them for their work. and let s consider what this republican controlled court does not respect, they do not respect the in effect republican controlled court the wrote roe v. wade, it was a 72 decision 49 years ago, and five of the deciding justices in favor of roe v. wade, where republican appointed supreme court justices.
of the factors of stare decisis, in considering whether to overrule it. and then the joint opinion of justice kennedy, justice o connor, and justice souter at great length went through those factors. that was a question presented in the case. social richards,, that is what susan collins confidence was based on. look, we can go over that hearing again, obviously that was devastating. having kavanaugh on the court is. but the truth is we have to look ahead now, and i think what is so distressing, this is now five people in the united states of america who are now poised to take away the right of every single woman in this country, as rachel said earlier. this is something we ve never seen before, this is a right that all of us have lived our entire lives been able to exercise. and that is the most
anything this opinion says that basically it goes back to the states. all 50 states can make their own decisions about abortion now. does the court in this opinion say that the congress must stay out of it? or that the congress could then overrule the state s decisions? so, the court does not say that congress must stay out of it, but i d also like to correct a few things to, lawrence, which is that this is a playbook that we ve seen before. and, if you think of these stripping away of other constitutional protections, let s think about voting rights, and the shelby county decision which has upended the right for many to be able to vote in the united states. particularly people of black and brown communities across the united states, that stripping away has led to the undermining not only a voting rights but essentially of abortion rights as well it s important that we stick together these histories and
history of prescott bush being the treasurer of planned parenthood, we are seeing a time for people who are like calculating been afraid about these times represent. they should be, and not just count the attack on abortion, because next will be attacks on contraception there already happening. we already saw that in the hobby lobby case and were already seen attacks on sex education in schools as well. joining our conversation now is neil catio. neil is joining us from london, there is a time zone stress here and i want to get meal and it s quickly as we can. neil in your reading of this 98-page decision. is there anything in it that says that congress should stay out of it. who s doing cream court says that we have no role in this because it should be left of the states. is the supreme court saying that congress instead of this too because it should be left to the states. no, they re not quite saying that, so it s perfectly
should remember that a person is 14 times more likely to die by carrying a pregnancy to term, that by terminating it. and given that this has been part of supreme court jurisprudence and record just a few weeks ago this is a deadly decision. it s not just the sort of breach that we ve seen in half a century, it means that it s essentially a death sentence, where we already lead other countries in maternal mortality, what this means when you drill down, in mississippi, alabama, louisiana, texas, is that it s a death sentence for lots of black and brown women. kelly alyssa, mike if justice alito, if it was up to him to sign the opinion, and he took the opinion for himself he does have one woman on the court on his side when he could ve assign the opinion to. he could ve looked at this decision and said, well, this is really a decision about the reproductive rights of women in