Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Monday warned progressives that the Supreme Court “isn’t just coming for abortion” after a leak of a Supreme Court draft ruling that would overturn Roe v. Wade.
“As we’ve warned, SCOTUS isn’t just coming for abortion — they’re coming for the right to privacy Roe rests on which includes gay marriage + civil rights,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.
“Manchin is blocking Congress codifying Roe. House has seemingly forgotten about Clarence Thomas. These 2 points must change,” the liberal firebrand continued, taking shots at Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
As we’ve warned, SCOTUS isn’t just coming for abortion – they’re coming for the right to privacy Roe rests on, which includes gay marriage + civil rights.
Manchin is blocking Congress codifying Roe. House has seemingly forgotten about Clarence Thomas. These 2 points must change https://t.co/5Isec0osV0 — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 3, 2022
A draft ruling on Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that made abortion a constitutional right nationwide, was leaked by Politico on Monday night. The opinion was drafted by Justice Samuel Alito, a George W. Bush appointee.
The opinion concludes by declaring that Roe and the court’s decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey both have no grounding in the Constitution.
Ocasio-Cortez later retweeted a statement from Slate reporter Mark Joseph Stern pointing to passages in the draft opinion.
“Alito’s draft opinion explicitly criticizes Lawrence v. Texas (legalizing sodomy) and Obergefell v. Hodges (legalizing same-sex marriage),” Joseph wrote. “He says that, like abortion, these decisions protect phony rights that are not ‘deeply rooted in history.’ ”
Ocasio-Cortez ally Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) tweeted that he thinks the Senate needs to end the filibuster in order to codify Roe v. Wade into law. Ocasio-Cortez specifically targeted Manchin in her tweet following his previous stance, along with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), to keep filibuster rules in place in the upper chamber.
In late March, Ocasio-Cortez and others called on Justice Clarence Thomas to resign or face impeachment for “his failure to disclose income from right-wing organizations, recuse himself from matters involving his wife, and his vote to block the Jan 6th commission from key information must be investigated and could serve as grounds for impeachment.”
The longtime justice faced scrutiny at the time following reports that his wife had aggressively led efforts to try to overturn the 2020 election in favor of former President Trump.
danappropriate on May 3rd, 2022 at 18:21 UTC »
AOC is correct. Let's not forget, Amy Coney Barrett believes that the 14th Amendment is "possibly illegitimate" and that "Brown v. The Board of Education" was wrongly decided. While Barrett, and others, have said they will not challenge a "superprecedent" don't think for a second things end there. She's argued before that the court can and should re-examine rulings believed wrong if they lose their "super" status, and conservative courts have been chipping away at Warren Court rulings for decades. It's only a matter of time, and I fear there is far too much apathy to overcome the conservative momentum in regressing civil rights to the 1920s.
Nomad_Industries on May 3rd, 2022 at 16:46 UTC »
You can vote yourself into a theocracy, but if it doesn't work, you have to shoot your way back out.
amrochti on May 3rd, 2022 at 16:33 UTC »
Indeed, since roe vs wade was based on the 14th amendment regarding the right to equal state protection, any subsequent right that was awarded to a disadvantage and marginalised community on the basis of that amendment - ie. All of them, including civil rights… - are at risk ! God bless (not) jurisprudence…