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BlueCheeseAgain

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10. All along I thought the best-case scenario for abortion rights...

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Tue May 3, 2022, 12:17 AM

May 2022

... would be Roberts cobbling together some compromise that preserves most of Roe. Roberts is supposed to be very aware of SCOTUS's public stature and doesn't like rocking the boat too much. But it appears that he's failed, and the writing was on the wall when SCOTUS didn't immediately strike down the Texas bounty hunter law.

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SCOTUS Chief Justice Roberts joins draft dissenters, more, according to CNN [View all] steve2470 May 2022 OP

That's awfully magnanimous of him dalton99a May 2022 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music May 2022 #2

Meaning there is no hope. FoxNewsSucks May 2022 #4

Splitting the baby. gldstwmn May 2022 #3

If he was willing to uphold the 15 week Mississippi law, is that really splitting? In It to Win It May 2022 #11

Republicons like him rarely vote the right way FoxNewsSucks May 2022 #5

He wants it to happen, he just doesn't want to get all the hate-tweets FakeNoose May 2022 #6

Roberts counters a leak with a leak. He doesn't want this shit on his shoes. Midnight Writer May 2022 #7

Which is why I think he leaked it in the first place. gldstwmn May 2022 #12

K&R for, we'll take a half-weasel UTUSN May 2022 #8

USSC is 100% a political body now, FAUX NewZ is no doubt ruling the court uponit7771 May 2022 #9

All along I thought the best-case scenario for abortion rights... BlueCheeseAgain May 2022 #10