Chief Justice Roberts Calls Leak Of Draft Opinion On Roe v. Wade 'Absolutely Appalling'



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Chief Justice Roberts Calls Leak Of Draft Opinion On Roe v. Wade ‘Absolutely Appalling’

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  1. Governments should not be involved with making abortion laws. It isn't their business to pass legislation using arbitrary measures of viability. It is is decision that should only be made between a woman in consultation with her doctor weighing the physical and mental health of the woman to either abort or carry the fetus to term. All governments should stay out of the bedrooms of Americans.

    Those governments that impose restrictions will be face the consequences at their next election. Politicians that have been hiding behind the Roe decision will have to make it clear to the people that elect them which way they stand on freedom, reproductive, and personal rights. The election in November could become a one issue election that has the potential to change the political landscape of America as the vast majority of Americans believe it is the woman's right to choose. This could be the issue that will make many Republicans vote, this one time only in their lives, for a Democrat.

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  4. Here we go again. This ruling, (assuming this IS the ruling), will not affect the ability of rich women to obtain abortions. It will harm lower income women who don't have the means to obtain a safe abortion. Back-alley, unsafe procedures will be the option for poor women.
    Each and every one of us know, that if men had the ability to give birth, legal abortion would have been "settled law" 300 years ago.

  5. @Justice Roberts
    I FIND IT ABSOLUTELY APPALLING & EGREGIOUS THAT
    “ YOU “ JUSTICE ROBERTS FINDS THIS LEAK SO EGREGIOUS & APPALLING,
    WHEN YOU DIDN’T SPEAK ON HOW EGREGIOUS OR APPALLING THE JAN.6th INSURRECTION WAS, OR HOW EGREGIOUS & APPALLING
    THE REPUBLICAN COMMUNIST PARTY ARE, STOKING WHITE NATIONALISM WITH MAGA WHITE NATIONALIST…

    I DON’T HEAR OR SEE ANY OF YOU SUPREME COURT JUSTICES SPEAKING ON HOW EGREGIOUS AND APPALLING IT IS THAT ONLY
    BLACK MEN ARE BEING GUNNED DOWN BY WHITE NATIONALIST COPS…

    YOU SUPREME COURT JUSTICES ARE TO UPHOLD OUR CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS OF LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL AMERICANS.

    YOU’RE NOT DOING YOUR JOBS IN REGARDS TO THE PEOPLES BUSINESS OR FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT FOR LIBERTY & JUSTICE FOR ALL AMERICANS.

    TAKE JUSTICE “ UNCLE TOM THOMAS “ FOR EXAMPLE HERE…

    THE WIFE OF JUSTICE “ UNCLE TOM THOMAS “ IS UNDER ( INVESTIGATION ) FOR APPALLING & EGREGIOUS ACTS AGAINST
    OUR DEMOCRATIC DEMOCRACIES, A “ TREASONOUS “ ACT, “ A CONFLICT OF INTEREST “ IF ANYTHING!

    BUT WE’RE NOT HEARING OR SEEING ANY OF YOU SO-CALLED SUPREME COURT JUSTICES FINDING ANY OF THAT, APPALLING
    OR EGREGIOUS ARE WE AMERICA?

    SO I FIND IT VERY APPALLING AND EGREGIOUS THAT YOU SUPREME COURT JUSTICES HAVEN’T CALLED FOR JUSTICE
    “ UNCLE TOM THOMAS “ TO RESIGN DUE TO THIS APPALLING AND EGREGIOUS CONFLICT OF INTEREST.

    THAT RIGHT THERE ALONE, PROVES TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THAT OUR SUPREME COURT JUSTICES ARE INCAPABLE OF
    MAKING THE RIGHT DECISIONS…

    AND LET’S NOT GET STARTED ON ROE V WADE…

    WE HAVE FEMALE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES WHO ARE WOMEN THEMSELVES, AND THEY, CAN’T EVEN TELL YOU MALE JUSTICES TO STAY IN YOUR PLACES ON AN ISSUE THAT MEN HAVE NO BUSINESS MAKING ANY DECISIONS ON…

    IT’S A WOMANS BODY, HER CHOICE!

    JUSTICE ROBERTS, I FIND YOUR WHOLE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE DECISION MAKING APPALLING AND EGREGIOUS…

    SHAME ON YOU AND THE OTHER SUPREME COURT JUSTICES FOR NOT CALLING FOR JUSTICES “ UNCLE TOM THOMAS “ TO RESIGN AMONG OTHER THINGS.

    I USE TO HAVE HIGH RESPECT FOR THE HIGHEST COURT IN THE LAND, NOT ANYMORE…

    HOW BOUT THIS…

    ASK NOT WHAT THE PEOPLE CAN DO FOR THIS COUNTRY, BUT WHAT THIS COUNTRY CAN DO FOR THE PEOPLE, FOR A BETTER TOMORROW FOR A CHANGE? HOW BOUT THAT?

    UNFUCKING BELIEVABLE YOU PEOPLE.

    AMERICA THE BLUNDERFUL, DISGRACEFUL SKIES…

  6. The Swamp is celebrating, knowing there will be NO consequences!

  7. ….but it is not 'Absolutely Appalling' that there are five Justices on the court that blatantly lied at their confirmation? Congratulations Chief Justice John Roberts on being just as dishonest as them. Who would have any faith in any ruling the Supreme court hands down here-on-in? The court is now a political tool, not an unbiased judicial body, as it should be.

  8. What's more appalling are the liars on the Court and their religious and political bias.

  9. The court has been tinted for years.

  10. Republicans: “We are not going to take away your rights” (Russians amassing troops around Ukraine: We won’t invade!)… LMFAO!

  11. Nobody likes their corruption to be exposed.

  12. How about those GOP judges lying during confirmation? Is it a crime? Why is the moral by those GOP supreme judges? Why Robert didn't mention a single words about those hypocrite? Now Supreme Court under Robert like a circus.

  13. No Roberts, what's appalling is that the so called "justices" are allowed to lie through their teeth at their confirmation hearings and there's absolutely no accountability for their committing perjury. They should be removed from the court and sent to where they belong, prison..

  14. Leak is appalling, old man in a rope tries to rule over womyn should be tarred and feathered.

  15. The person that leaked draft opinion,,,most likely is Ginni Thomas's attempt to help 2022 GOP candidates.
    If that is true does it mean Ginni Thomas is the Deep Throat of the Supreme Court?

  16. All GOP lawmakers are making big deal on the LEAK AND THE LEAKER of the Roe v wade document .

    They don't seem to attach their outrage and disdain on the contents of the leaked document : the intention to dismantle ROE V WADE. This is the most despicable and outrageous plan secretly concocted by the SUPREME COURT JUDGES, and yet the rogue Republican lawmakers do seem to condemn the Supreme Court Judges who hatched this EVIL DOCUMENT.

    Please don't be so utterly hypocritical and shamelessly dishonest.

  17. Justice Robert’s upstart about leak but not about his lies and his ability to hold justice CT liable treason against the American people.
    #inpeach clarance Thomas

  18. He is worried about a leak? I am worried about the hijacking of rights for women by four justices who committed perjury during their confirmations to get on the court…a felony

  19. Racists must be exterminated . No to white supremacy .

  20. The leak is not what is appalling. The vitriolic opinion so out of touch with the majority of Americans and Stare Decisis is what is appalling. No Checks and No Balances. They call these individuals Justice, but no, far from it.

  21. Appalling is what they want to do to woman

  22. You know what's really appalling? Republicans!

  23. This is a lying, no-faith court…these are not people I look up to or that speak for me. They are creepy and sly. Incredible.

  24. And just like that everyone is a biologist

  25. Robert’s has long lost my trust.

  26. I admit it . " I LEAKED THE INFORMATION"!! WTF is anyone going to do?

  27. If this passes then they need to make it so you can drop off an unwanted birth to some government office without consequences. If I was a woman you wouldn't force me to keep a kid I didn't want.

  28. Geez he is parroting the pumpkinhead party line to the letter. He needs to be shown how much the majority of the USA does not agree with him. Time to detrench these thoughtful people. A lifetime of them is too long.

  29. Kinda like taking the blindfold off just to find out you are in front of a firing squad.

  30. I think we all know what's appalling here.

  31. WELL the MINORITY Supreme Court who have been bought and paid for by Billionaires , are just doing what they are sold, OH I mean told 😏

  32. "Absolutely appalling" is what I would say about SCOTUS.

  33. Perhaps he’s the one that leaked it.

  34. Term limits for these lunatics

  35. Thank you to whomever leaked the document! Well done!

  36. No one gives a s*** that you’re shady garbage was leaked.

  37. What did Roberts call it when Clarence Thomas voted the way his wife told him to?

  38. This decision is based on law from 1633.

  39. This decision is based on law from 1633. That's the time they were burning witches.

  40. This decision is based on law from 1633. That's the time they were burni

  41. This decision is based on law from 1633. That's the time they were burning witches.

  42. Five persons allied themselves to a document where the word "Always" is used early and often. If a person attests in writing that they have ALWAYS held a position, then it would be a grievous lie for them to claim elsewhere that they once held a different position but have recently changed their mind. If they made any claim that they were holding an opposite position, that would be a lie at the time they spoke it. If they were under oath with a penalty of law and they at this time claimed to hold an opposite opinion. That by its nature would be a CRIME. If duly charged and convicted, these five persons would be Convicted CRIMINALS. Such is the unavoidable TRUTH of five Justices sitting on the US SUPREME COURT. DEMOCRACY has been MURDERED by five of the most powerful JUDGES in our world.