![]() I predict we will never know because, and here’s the real point, I do not believe anyone is conducting a real investigation aimed at finding out the truth.Ĥ) Justice Gorsuch Lying about the Praying Football Coach Speaking of the leaked draft opinion, it has been over six months since Politico published it and still we have heard nothing about the alleged investigation of the leak authorized by Chief Justice Roberts. Tone deaf is far too kind a description for Justice Alito’s misogyny. The citations in the draft opinion are staggering enough but, even after the world criticized Alito for including Hale in that draft, Hale still appeared in the final opinion in much the same manner. In any event, the idea that increased adoption opportunities mitigate the harm women suffer by forced pregnancies is just wrong and offensive.įor reasons beyond anyone’s imagination, Justice Alito in the Dobbs draft opinion relied on Mathew Hale, a despicable figure from the 17the century, whose writings, according to one commentator, “have caused enduring damage to women for hundreds of years.” Among other heinous contributions, Hale is credited with furthering the legal rule that men cannot rape their wives and the practice of burning women at the stake when they are deemed (by men) to be witches. Of course this line of questioning, utterly irrelevant to the legal issues surrounding abortion, probably had nothing to do with Barrett’s personal experience of adopting several children nor her religious objections to abortion. Barrett seemed oblivious to the idea that maybe this alternative is not one most women would choose (not to mention the physical, economic, and mental burdens associated with an unwanted pregnancy during the actual pregnancy). ![]() ![]() This post is not about how much I disagree with almost all of the big cases from 2022 but rather about the moments that should be a reminder to us all that the six conservative justices who now control the highest court in the land are just, well, terrible, even apart from their votes.ġ) Adoption, Abortion, and Justice Barrettĭuring the oral argument in the Dobbs case, Justice Barrett asked several questions about adoption and “safe haven” laws that allow parents to give up babies to the state after birth, no questions asked. Here are my top ten worst moments of 2022 (in no particular order). This was a no good, terrible, very bad year at the Supreme Court of the United States. ![]()
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