be involved if roe were to be overturned? mister chairman, i think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case, if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion. it should make its decisions based on the constitution, and the law, it should not sway in a wind of public opinion at anytime. julia lithwick, what did we or should we have learned from that answer in his confirmation hearing? yeah, that was the tell, lawrence. he was very very transparent that, casey, which is a protracted meditation on stare decisis, and the need of the court to not reverse course willy-nilly, because people have a reliance interest, they order their lives around constitutional protections that are afforded them. what you just heard justice alito say it was pretty much where he put in his draft opinion which is that, not my problem. and it s really interesting
make no mistake about it. they say it s about states rights, but it s not. it s about taking away the right of women to make their own decision about pregnancy. and they will not stop. wendy davis, this is the product of our politics. a vote for republicans. at every level. state legislature, governor, senator, president. they have produced this decision. this is a republican political success, this is one of the only policies they ve been running on for decades. and now they have basically realize that policy through the supreme court. created by republican presidents. the first president bush, second president bush, and president trump. their nominees are all doing those to the american people. they re all delivering this decision. one of the things that i believed when i was working in the united states senate with the republicans was that the overwhelming majority of republican senators did not believe their own personal rhetoric about abortion.
act, but hopefully that s gonna be speech acts. here i think you speak to something absolutely accurately, which is that we ve seen people obfuscate. judges, who were looking to be appointed on the supreme court, obfuscate or flip around these issues, and don t take them seriously. i do want to point out something injustice alito s draft opinion here, where he talks about this being egregious. and that it s a decision that has damaging consequences, we 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
in this, and you just brought this focus to the beto o rourke governors campaign there in texas. obviously very important for these issues. what else should voters be thinking about tonight as they watch themselves for the first time in their lives lose a constitutional right like this? i think we all need to understand what s at stake here. it isn t just a principled arguments about whether we should or shouldn t have the right to abortion. it s about with the very human outfall of this decision is going to be. and it s not just the human outfall, it s not just about an individual in her family and what the impact might be. it s about the economic outfall that will occur. and i hope that companies across this country are coming to understand that if they don t step forward, if they
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