its members didn t grow old and die out. instead it kept renewing itself and it grew stronger and younger year after year, decade after decade. it continued, of course, we still had a problem because too often republican presidents and you know who you are promised to appoint pro-lifeic justices but didn t keep their promises. justices o connor, souterth and kennedy all voted with the judicial activists on these and related cases on abortion that had conservatives including yours truly, noto for george w. bush to pull b the nomination of harriet miersi back in 2005, she would haveo been another vote to uphold roe . thank goodness. wa we have sm alito on the court now. we always seem to be one or two votes short, didn t we, over all these years? but in twenty sixteen pro-life voters saw a chance toaw change the republican party andpa d the court for donald trump wasn t part of the gop establishment.
severino, judicial crisis network president robert dunn, partner at amersfoort. ks both are former supreme court clerk for my old boss justicere clarence thomas. and also with me is meghan wald, former clerk to justice alito and partner at cooper and kirk law firm. carrie, i want to start with you now. the court just handed an issue i mentioned in the constitution back to the electorate and the left wants america to believe that we re less democratic because the people of all 50 states will be able to determinel 5 for themselves how does that make them? there s o a whole lot of bizarre things that have been said about today s decision, but that s one of the top onessa and people who are saying, well, how could the court makeis a decision like they have pollso they cite they say, well, americans don t want to be pro-life. americans want to have access to abortion. i say, well, great, the court just gave you a decision that says you can make your own abortion laws. and sohi the idea that
right protected in the constitution and justice alito recognized that today. his decision explains just how flimsy and illegitimate the reasoning of roe was. it was premised on bad legal reasoning. it was premised on faulty history and it was premised on bad science that have been completely disproven by developments since roe was decided. and here s the thing. abortion advocates have neverde actually liked roe anyway. what they liked about roe is p that it delivered them a policyl victory that they wantedot and that they couldn t get for the entire country at the ballot box and they ve been open about it. now even ruth bader ginsburg, she wasn t wildd about the reasoning either. and after hearing nancy pelosi and so many of the democrats over the last 18 months really slam the republicans fore tearing down our institutionsic not caring about process, obviously focused on january 6th , the election results,
corrected. now s the states are going to have to decide this for themselves. but that lie has been correct. e and in michigan, justice alito also wrote your old boss, we don t pretend to know how our political system, our society is going to respond to today s c decision overruling roe and casey. and even ifat we could foresee what would happen, we wouldow have no authority tole let that knowledge influence our decisionny do. il wee can only do our job well. that is the role of a supreme court justice. but today over and over againin we heard commentator on tvw who should know better what justices to be super s legislators, not supreme courtup justices a blur the line every time that s absolutely right. and i don t think enough can be said about the integrity ofs the justices who reached this decision today, including against some of the most vociferous and open campaigning for judges too act as legislators that we have ever seen in this country. and the reality is that abortion has ne
0 to people and they say they took away our right to abortion. you can tell them the truth. that s not what today s decision did. they decided who gets to decide and the constitution is clear . it s the states all the time we have left this evening. thanks for being with us. thank you for making the show possible. stay with the fox news channel for continuing coverage, not your heartbeat troubled laura s next . we ll see on monday. i m laura ingram and this is ingraham angle on a triumphant friday night from new york answered prayers. that s the focus of tonight s angle on january 22nd . nineteen seventy three almost fifty years ago, seven members of the supreme held that under the fourteenth amendment of our constitution the same constitute that americans and fought and died to protect elected officials could not protect the unborn from abortion. now ever since that time,l abortion has been a constitutional right now this is a painful and humiliating experience forov tens of million