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Good column and analysis, Curt. Thanks.
The court’s logic was garbage. By their own logic, access to contraception, same sex relationships, and interracial marriage should also be returned to the states. The justices tried to cut people off to that by saying “well, no, this only applies when it comes to abortion” but that also doesn’t make sense. You can’t selectively apply civics lessons and precedence.
That’s why originalism is so much garbage.
Then again, maybe we should send everything back to the states, so people get fed up by heartless Republicans so they can get voted into oblivion and new federal laws can be passed. Because, as we all know, Republicans are big advocates of the rule of law.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/06/26/conservative-supreme-court-gun-control-00042417
I always tune out when the libs combine abortion and inter-racial marriage marriage. Like combining mince meat pie and strawberry smoothy. Just doesn’t make any sense.
I always tune out when people clearly don’t understand the point but comment anyway.
Central to Alito’s decision was that abortion was illegal when the 14th Amendment passed, so it’s not protected by the due process clause now. Rights recognized by the due process clause must be “deeply rooted in this nation’s history and implicit in the concept of ordered liberty”, his own words.
For reference, recent hot topics protected by the due process clause include abortion, same sex marriage, access to contraception, and interracial marriage. Justice Thomas said that all of those save interracial marriage “were demonstrably erroneous decisions.”
So, two things. First, that Thomas thinks that the right he enjoys wasn’t erroneous legally while the others were makes me question if he’s more senile than Trump and Biden combined. Because, Roe was 1973. Loving vs. Virginia (interracial marriage) was 1967. Six years is the same amount of time.
Second, abortion WAS legal in the country, and was legal for a longer period of time than it was illegal before the 14th amendment was passed. No state had banned the procedure until 1821, and it was legal in 13 of 33 states in 1860. So, not exactly universally banned or deeply rooted.