Report: White House "panicked" at lack of tools to keep abortion legal
Allahpundit May 05, 2022 6:01 PM ET
How do you end up caught off-guard, as WaPo says Team Biden was, by a Supreme Court ruling?
Did they somehow miss the news that hearings were held in the Dobbs case six months ago? Did they … not anticipate that a 6-3 conservative Court might seize the opportunity to overturn Roe?
The Biden White House seems forever late in responding to events. They were still pushing Build Back Better last fall after public anxiety over inflation had begun to rise. Stephen Breyer’s retirement seemed all but assured this year given the electoral reality of the midterms yet it still took Biden and his crew weeks to interview candidates before settling on Ketanji Brown Jackson. Why didn’t they have someone in mind and ready to go for the likely vacancy?
And let’s not speak of Afghanistan, where a withdrawal that was supposed to take months had to be crammed into a few weeks because the Pentagon didn’t see the Taliban’s advance coming.
Still, all of those pale by comparison to being somehow surprised by the likely outcome of a SCOTUS case that the entire country has been waiting on for half a year.
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