Now how do I know this was a coordinated provocation with a fixed strategy? Because by the time the leak occurred everyone working at Fox News, everyone appearing on Fox News to comment on the leak, every other conservative movement official or leader, conservative movement commentator or social media personality, and every Republican official all had the same talking points. There is only one person in the conservative movement who is in the senior leadership of a conservative movement group that meets to create and circulate comprehensive talking points on a regular basis to all of those listed above, who is plugged into almost every other conservative movement group in DC, and who is also tied directly to a member of the conservative wing of the Supreme Court.
The important issue, of course, is what it all means.Plessy remained the law of the land for nearly six decades until the court overturned it with the Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation ruling in 1954.
Quoting Kavanaugh, Alito writes of Plessy: “It was ‘egregiously wrong,’ on the day it was decided.”
But 1954 was during the second civil rights movement (after Reconsruction). By 1954, public opinion strongly favored overturning Plessy. By 1971, the Supreme Court "issued mandates that segregation be dismantled 'root and branch.'” The trend on "banning abortion in all cases" has gone up and down, but has never exceeded 21%.
Same problem applies to the Dred Scott decision. Public sentiment
agains slavery dramatically expanded from 1840 to 1860. Problem with
saying that the Supreme Court might take a "vanguard" position and
outlaw abortion in the expectatin that the public will follow along is
that there is no trend of opposition to abortion building since 1973.
There is simply no public sentiment to follow Alito's lead.
State Senator Maria Collette.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had no problem telling senators during her confirmation hearing that she fully supported Roe and women's right to choose. Funny thing, all five Justices who currently support overturning Roe indicated that they were fully prepared to support it as it was "settled law." One could perhaps argue that Alito and Thomas were on the bench long enough that they changed their minds after saying in their confirmation hearings that they would support the "settled law" of Roe. The three Trump Justices have no such excuse. They all said they'd support Roe from a stare decisis point of view and all three have very conveniently changed their minds.
In the absence of government help, the onus has fallen on nongovernmental organizations. The U.S.-based Center for Reproductive Rights is working with Federa and other local groups in countries bordering Ukraine to put pressure on the European Union to include sexual and reproductive health in their refugee-aid solutions.
The good news on the besieged city of Mariupol is that all civilians have all been evacuated. No doubt President Putin is frustrated that a defending force is still holding out. Ukraine is successfully re-taking territory from Russia. Russian losses:
Russia is now visually confirmed to have lost 3500 vehicles and other pieces of (heavy) military equipment since it began its invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
This includes well over 10k tanks.