Supreme Court Leak Gives Boost To Midterm Candidates

A leaked SCOTUS draft shows that the court is about to overturn Roe vs Wade. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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A leaked SCOTUS draft shows that the court's about to overturn Roe V. Wade. Wow. What a story. I mean, the impact of something like this, first of all, the, the Democrats have gotta be jubilant about it in a lot of ways, because this could affect the midterms. They're in trouble in the midterms. On the other side, the conservatives say, no, not so fast. This might actually, this might buoy, buoy up the conservatives because the, the, the decision's gonna come out in June. Right. And the, and then the next move's gonna be, well, we need to do legislation to change all that. So there's gonna be that immediate flash point. Why don't you gimme your thought on what's happening.

Yeah. I mean, it's gonna happen actually on both sides too. The Democratic controlled states will say, okay, we need to make sure everything's open and legal. Republican states are gonna go back and say, listen, we've been given clearance now, we can pass our laws and restrict this. And of course, bases on both sides are going to be happy about that. But this decision, you know, what this does and, and I think the best analysis I've seen and I, I wish I remembered who to credit this to, is this is not gonna put an end to abortion. This is gonna put an end to safe abortion.

Ah, yeah.

Right. You, you're talking about, you know, the back alley type stuff that could arise from this. Women's lives could be in danger and that of course is always the concern. And not to mention, just in general, we had this court decision.

Mm-hmm.

This was settled.

Well it's precedent.

It was a settled matter.

It was precedent for decades, man. I mean.

And so you can't just throw precedent out the window because if you can, okay, then open season on getting rid of Citizens United.

Exactly.

McCutcheon. If, if.

That, that's a great point.

Yeah.

If this happens, I mean, and if this is true. Now look, we all know this. We saw this same thing play itself out with Roberts on Obamacare. Do you remember that?

Yeah.

Oh my God. Something was leaked. It wasn't the, it wasn't the decision. Just some phrase was leaked and all of a sudden Roberts was going to deep six Obamacare. It was a lie. It was fantasy.

Yeah.

And now, I don't know whether Roberts was committed to A and then turned to B, but it never happened. And I, as I watch this, I wonder, is there some similarity here?

I, I feel like there could be a little bit, or at least perhaps that's the motive of the leak.

Yeah.

And so with so many unknowns right now, you know, could this have been a leftist up there that leaked this?

Yeah.

That's a, certainly a possibility. Could it have been a conservative? That's a possibility, both sides have reason to believe that this decision would help them in the midterms.

Well.

And, and you know, one of the analyses I saw from an article from Slate actually talked about, you know, this could be more of a neutral get the bandaid off.

Yes.

So everybody has the reaction before the actual decision.

That's, that's exactly right. Yeah.

And it's one of those we're gonna have to wait and see who, who it is, what the motive is, who they're working for.

Okay. So, so who it is. Okay. Is it a progressive clerk? You know, whose career is now officially over.

Yeah.

They may make her into, you know, the, make him or her into a hero. It'll last about six months and their career is over. I mean, it really is. There's no, because they all go to work for these silk stocking defense firms, you know, they don't go to work for.

Conservative, liberal, doesn't matter.

Yeah. They don't do what we do, plaintiff's work. They wanna work for Wall Street law firms. So that careers over. They might be a hero.

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