It’s been a frenzy on both sides since someone from the Supreme Court’s office leaked an early draft ruling on Roe v. Wade. Democrats think the world is coming to an end because the decisions on legal abortion could be handed back to the states. Republicans are furious that the leak undermines SCOTUS’s ruling and the leaker certainly had nefarious motives.
The left’s argument is premature—A draft is only a draft until it’s written into law, but Republicans’ concerns are more than valid. Whoever leaked the document tried to undermine the courts.
Joy Baher on ‘The View’ completely missed the severity of a leak from the world’s highest court and immediately started churning our conspiracy theories. Like, that SCOTUS plans to bring back segregation —No joke.
“I woke up in the middle of the night to pee,” Behar began by sharing way too much information. “And while I was up I see my phone lighting up, people texting, look, what happened here. I couldn’t go back to sleep. It is that devastating. In those hearings, all of these people that are voting to overturn this lied, didn’t they lie?”
“It sounds to me that they all felt there was precedence and they would honor the precedent,” Behar continued. “And now the opposite is happening, not that I was surprised. We saw this coming. My worry that this is just the beginning, next they will go after gay marriage and maybe the Board v. — what is it, Brown v. Board of Education. They already eroded our voting rights a little bit. So I see some — I see fascism down the line, I don’t know.”
Behar then claims the conservative justices will go after Brown v. Board and take away the right to vote.
"I see fascism down the line here," she insisted. pic.twitter.com/GqO9rZuSsQ— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 3, 2022
“Setting a precedent for taking materials that the public was not yet to consume and telling us that the Supreme Court is now a partisan — it’s not apolitical anymore, it’s part of the partisan fray,” Granger commented. “And I think that’s why, as an institutionalist, I’m looking at this, and I think lot of Republicans are getting upset about the documents being released.”
“The bigger issue, obviously, is abortion is on the table, but people are getting upset because we’re setting a precedent now that you can’t trust the Supreme Court,” she added. “This infighting, nobody knows what’s it is going on who leaked the documents … If it was a liberal that leaked the documents, that would mean they’re trying to undermine the Supreme Court intentionally. If it was a conservative on the Court that released the documents, that would mean they’re trying to force the hand of their counterparts to stay firm in their early opinion, which is not right. We have to leave room for change in the Supreme Court.”
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Guest co-host Lindsey Granger worries about the precedent being set by leaking draft rulings and the smears against the court as being untrustworthy.
She says if a lib leaked the docs it was a coercive action and if a conservative member did it was meant to cement opinions. pic.twitter.com/FAvZyJRnWs— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 3, 2022
