“What can liberals do now? Not much, really. Even after the unprecedented and norm-shattering mistreatment of judicial nominee Merrick Garland, many centrist voters didn’t care and some left-wing voters didn’t think it was enough to stomach voting for Hillary Clinton. The Supreme Court ranked at the bottom of Democrats’ concerns in 2016, while it was at the top of Republicans’. And now it is here.īut “you”-by which I mean the large majority of voters who say that women have a right to control their own bodies-didn’t listen. So, yes, we all told you this was inevitable. Together with desegregation, it propelled the Religious Right to get into politics 50 years ago, and vote for Republicans ever since.
It was the primary criterion that the Federalist Society, funded by religious extremists, used to pick Supreme Court justices for Donald Trump. Overturning Roe is in the Republican Party’s platform.
And not just me, of course, but everyone in my profession. Not only am I unsurprised-I predicted it, several times, in this publication. Wade, authored by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, that was leaked to Politico. I am approximately zero percent surprised by the draft opinion overturning Roe v.
