December 4, 2021
Sotomayor’s intellectual limitations on display in the oral arguments over Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health
By Patricia McCarthy
For anyone paying attention to the abortion rights case just argued before the Supreme Court, it would be hard to miss the deep emotional passion of Justice Sotomayor in defense of Roe v. Wade. The justices heard arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health over a Mississippi law that prohibits termination of pregnancies after 15 weeks. Lower courts have found the ban plainly unconstitutional due to the half century of legal precedent since Roe and put it on hold.
While hardly alone in her knee-jerk attachment to the faux constitutionality of Roe, neither she nor the other liberals on the Court can address any relevant text in the Constitution that supports that 1973 decision. That would be because there isn’t any. All that clever stuff about emanations and penumbras was wholly without constitutional basis. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito are running intellectual rings around the “it-was-written-by old-white men” anti-Constitutionalists. Much of what has been said by the liberal justices and the pro-abortion defenders of Roe would be comical if it were not so deadly serious.
For example, Sotomayor asked, "Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in public perception that the constitution and its reading are just political acts?" she asked. Does she actually think that the court’s decision on Roe in 1973 was not political? Can she be that dim? Yes, she can and is.
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