Leaked memo reveals Supreme Court intends to strike down Roe v. Wade soon – and the midterms just got turned upside down
This evening Politico published a leaked draft memo which reveals that the Supreme Court has preliminarily voted against Roe v. Wade, and that it intends to strike it down in a final vote that will come down in the next month or two. Partly due to the article’s misleading headline, this is widely being misinterpreted as Roe v. Wade having already been struck down, which has not yet happened – but this is just as egregious.
What stands out here is that someone who works for the Supreme Court – and is trusted enough to have access to this kind of secret draft memo – made the extraordinarily risky move of leaking it to the media, in order to give the public the opportunity to mount massive public protests before the final ruling comes down.
Keep in mind that Justices do occasionally change their minds at the last minute. John Roberts changed his Obamacare vote at the last minute, seemingly after concluding that the Supreme Court would become too unpopular if Obamacare were struck down. Could something similar happen here, with another Justice? We don’t know, but it’s worth trying.
In any case, no matter how this final Supreme Court vote goes, the midterms have now become a referendum on this issue. If the Democrats retain their majority in the Senate, President Biden will be able to replace any Justice (liberal or conservative) who retires or passes away in the next two years. And if the Senate majority is expanded enough to work around the likes of Manchin and Sinema, the Supreme Court could even be expanded.
But we’ll have to put everything we have into winning the midterms. These sickos who control the Supreme Court are so eager to control women’s bodies, they couldn’t even be bothered to wait until after the midterms. Now we have to use this to our advantage, as a rallying cry, in order to get out the vote. One new poll, conducted just before this news broke, had the Democrats one point ahead in a generic midterm ballot. One point isn’t nearly enough. We have to put in the work and build on that.
