Hope for a Supreme Court compromise that preserves abortion rights looks lost after hearing conservatives justices talk about Mississippi’s 15-week ban. irin writes
Abortion-rights advocates and anti-abortion protesters demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court on December 1. Photo: Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images This is how Roe v.
By Supreme Court standards, the session was unusually blunt and at times heated. Stephen Breyer crankily noted that anyone could see it was the arrival of “new members” that had emboldened the right, perhaps hoping the justices Trump nominated might not want to be pawns.
Kavanaugh nattered on about how divisive abortion is and how neutral the Constitution is on it, and how, by golly, it’s a big country — “There will be different answers in Mississippi and New York, different in California or Alabama,” he said — with the implication that dominion over one’s body and future is just blue-state elitism.
Another tell was how Kavanaugh and Barrett spoke about precedent. Having said the requisite things about respecting precedent in his confirmation hearings before they were overtaken by an allegation of attempted rape and his paean to beer, Kavanaugh recited a clearly memorized list of cases that deserved to be overturned by the Court.
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