Chance. it covers all of its bases, its left everything on the dance floor. justice alito in writing this has not only for close and eviscerated the right to an abortion. he does so in a ways i think actually worn some deeper analysis. not quite as tight and analysis is offered. but he basically closes all doors going forward, he leaves a blueprint for the states to challenge other rights like the right to same sex marriage, the right to international american contraception and so on. and he also leaves no room in here for congress to step in to preserve reproductive rights. in fact, there is a blueprint here, i think, to allow congress to step in and nationalize the illegal-ization of abortion by coming in with a amendment or some other kind of nationalization that with her four closest right across the country. so the idea that this is a settlement that reserves this to the states for state-by-state deliberation, i think that s more gaslighting. it is something that he says here bu
She s also a host of the podcast scrutiny with full disclosure my white case shaw and neil whitman. a large trump s constitutional law scholar he cleared for supreme court justice stewart back in the 1960s. he s a professor emeritus for harvard law school where he talked for her two years. as great have you both tonight. melissa, let me start with you just on the opinion. because it really is, it s very rare, in it s an president we have an undrafted opinion that we re reading in public. and it s a very extreme document, i think. what is your take away about the tax of the opinion itself? well this is an opinion that really leaves nothing to chance. it covers all of its bases, its left everything on the dance floor. justice alito in writing this has not only for close and eviscerated the right to an abortion. he does so in a ways i think actually worn some deeper analysis. not quite as tight and analysis is offered. but he basically closes all doors going forward, he leaves a bluepri
Doors going forward, he leaves a blueprint for the states to challenge other rights like the right to same sex marriage, the right to international american contraception and so on. and he also leaves no room in here for congress to step in to preserve reproductive rights. in fact, there is a blueprint here, i think, to allow congress to step in and nationalize the illegal-ization of abortion by coming in with a amendment or some other kind of nationalization that with her four closest right across the country. so the idea that this is a settlement that reserves this to the states for state-by-state deliberation, i think that s more gaslighting. it is something that he says here but i can be opportunity for that is going to be relatively fleeting. so there is the blanket sort of abortion, she has the sort of covering all the bases as you said. leaving a blueprint for further action, legislative level. you also mentioned the sort of other unemployed a rights. the tradition of jurisp