Pelosi, Schumer: Supreme Court poised to inflict greatest rights restriction in last 50 years
“If the report is accurate, the Supreme Court is poised to inflict the greatest restriction of rights in the past 50 years – not just on women but on all Americans," said Schumer and Pelosi.
By OMRI NAHMIAS
Published: MAY 3, 2022
WASHINGTON – The leaked bombshell US Supreme Court draft decision suggesting the court might overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion sent Democrats scrambling on Tuesday, with lawmakers and activists looking for some way to head off the sweeping social change. “If the report is accurate, the Supreme Court is poised to inflict the greatest restriction of rights in the past 50 years – not just on women but on all Americans,” Congress’s top two Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, said in a joint statement. “The Republican-appointed justices’ reported votes to overturn Roe v. Wade would go down as an abomination, one of the worst and most damaging decisions in modern history.”
Chief Justice John Roberts said the Supreme Court would investigate the leak of the draft, which indicated that a majority of the nine justices are set to overturn the constitutional right to abortion – a breach of the court’s trust that he called a “betrayal.” In a news release, the court confirmed that the document dated from February was authentic, but cautioned that the draft opinion which would overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide does not represent the “final position of any member on the issues in the case.” The news broke a little more than six months before midterm elections that will determine if Democrats hold their razor-thin majorities in the US Congress for the next two years of President Joe Biden’s term.
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“If the report is accurate, the Supreme Court is poised to inflict the greatest restriction of rights in the past 50 years – not just on women but on all Americans," said Schumer and Pelosi.
By OMRI NAHMIAS
Published: MAY 3, 2022
WASHINGTON – The leaked bombshell US Supreme Court draft decision suggesting the court might overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion sent Democrats scrambling on Tuesday, with lawmakers and activists looking for some way to head off the sweeping social change. “If the report is accurate, the Supreme Court is poised to inflict the greatest restriction of rights in the past 50 years – not just on women but on all Americans,” Congress’s top two Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, said in a joint statement. “The Republican-appointed justices’ reported votes to overturn Roe v. Wade would go down as an abomination, one of the worst and most damaging decisions in modern history.”
Chief Justice John Roberts said the Supreme Court would investigate the leak of the draft, which indicated that a majority of the nine justices are set to overturn the constitutional right to abortion – a breach of the court’s trust that he called a “betrayal.” In a news release, the court confirmed that the document dated from February was authentic, but cautioned that the draft opinion which would overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide does not represent the “final position of any member on the issues in the case.” The news broke a little more than six months before midterm elections that will determine if Democrats hold their razor-thin majorities in the US Congress for the next two years of President Joe Biden’s term.
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