This week Politico reported that a Leftist clerk within the Supreme Court leaked a pre-decisional document indicating that a majority of the Justices were prepared to overturn the infamous Rowe vs. Wade decision. Never in not-so-recent memory has such a pre-decisional document been leaked. We have now added the Supreme Court to the long list of leaks and lies from once-trusted and no-longer-trustable Federal institutions. Generally, when it comes to weighing whether something is a conspiracy theory or stupidity, when it comes to the government, I always err on the side of stupid. Time and time again our government has demonstrated that someone in the government will shoot off his mouth. In today’s environment, the difference between a “conspiracy theory” and the truth seems to be about six months — even with the newly formed Ministry of Truth under the Department of Homeland Security.
I will be up front with the fact that in all but the most unusual circumstances (such as the health of the mother), abortion is not about “choice.” It is about murder — murder in its most barbaric form, including mutilation of a live fetus. I cannot choose to kill my neighbor’s dog, but a woman can choose to murder the most innocent human life on the planet. Physicians in these abortion death factories betray their Hippocratic Oath to do so. If there is an element of “choice,” it is the choice to avoid stupid, hedonistic, and risky behavior for which pregnancy is a possible consequence — for both men and women. Murder is an unconscionable response to the consequences of bad behavior. How someone can call themselves a Christian, Catholic, or Jew while promoting abortion is beyond me? Even the Woke Pope seems to agree on that.
The Left has predictably had a meltdown. According to the Daily Wire:
President Biden put out a statement, as well, but he did not mention the leak or how it might undermine the integrity of the court.
Biden’s statement stayed focused on the politics of this development, saying that he directed various White House offices to “prepare options for an Administration response to the continued attack on abortion” and, as he put it, “reproductive rights.”
He finished by emphasizing that voters will need to elect pro-choice officials in November if the Court overturns Roe. He reiterated this message to reporters on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews on Monday.
Questions: are protests outside the Supreme Court an insurrection that threatens our democracy? If someone gets inside the court building, will that be a coup or simple trespassing? And if anyone is arrested for trespassing, will they be held in solitary confinement for over a year without being charged?
I am a huge believer in the 10th Amendment of the Constitution, which says, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The Constitutional language equates “United States” with the Federal Government in this context. What this means is that apart of powers specified as belonging to the Federal Government, the States govern. We have seen massive encroachments on State sovereignty over the years. Often this infringement of States’ rights is with the collusion of the States, as when they take bribes to accept federal edicts, such as accepting some federal mandate in exchange for receiving tax dollars that were theirs in the first place. In many cases, however, the unaccountable federal regulatory agencies infringe States’ rights willy-nilly with little or no oversight or consequence. Recently a federal judge ruled, rightfully I think, that the Feds overstepped their authority by mandating masks on airplanes and other transportation systems.
I am not a lawyer, but I know some, and I have slept in a Holiday Inn Express on occasion. Given my conviction in the wisdom of the 10th Amendment, I firmly believe that Rowe vs. Wade was bad law and bad precedent. Maintaining a Navy, controlling interstate commerce (the only phrase of the Constitution more tortured than the 10th Amendment), and other specified powers fall within federal purview. Destroying schools and our children’s education is not a specified power in the Constitution, so the whole Department of Education should be abolished. Likewise, laws governing abortion are not specified in the Constitution and therefore belong to the States (or the people) to manage. Many states have laws on the books that restrict or eliminate the right to choose murder. Those laws have been held in check by Rowe vs. Wade. It is these laws that the Left fears.
Remember: The opinion in the draft does not say that no one will be able to make the judgment to choose to murder a child. It will send that question back to the States to decide legislatively. The Left has labeled this court opinion to let States and the People decide on abortion “rights” as “undemocratic,” “a war on women,” and “demonic.” It seems to me however that reducing the stranglehold from the increasing fascist, tyrannical, and overreaching federal government is very democratic.
Pushing the abortion debate back to the States where it belongs has several benefits besides being Constitutional. Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize winning economist, frequently asserted that power and services need to be pushed as far down as possible. The more local a decision is made or a service is performed, the more the people can influence it through debate (until curtailed by the Ministry of Truth) and voting. Also, the more local a decision is made, the more the people can assess whether they are getting their money’s worth for whatever service the government is providing. People may also vote with their feet. If they don’t like Texas’ abortion law, for instance, people are free to move to California where every heinous act imaginable seems to be approved and encouraged, including rampant abortion on demand, and where merely reporting the facts about abortion is a felony.
In addition, when a service is provided locally, there is only one level of bureaucracy stealing value from tax dollars. When a service is provided by the federal government, several layers of bureaucracy siphon off portions of tax dollars without any value added in providing the designated service. Many sites rate charities on the percentage of someone’s contribution that make it to the target of the charity. Disabled American Vets has a much higher rating (more money makes it to the veterans) than does Wounded Warrior, for instance. Most of the money donated to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital makes it to needy families. Imagine such a site that shows how little of the forcibly extracted tax revenue makes it back to taxpayers in the form of services. I don’t have real numbers, but I suspect that a service provided by a city or county is close to 90%, but a similar service provided by the federal government is close to 10%.
After several detours, I return to my central point. Rowe vs. Wade is bad law, and overturning it is long overdue. It is reprehensible that a law clerk leaked this story, and that person needs to be destroyed. This is not a whistle-blower situation. This is the result of a disgruntled political operative masquerading as member of the judiciary. If the leaked, pre-decisional opinion is in fact a harbinger of what we will see soon from the court, however, I welcome that opinion.
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I welcome it, too.
What I don’t understand is how people could see anything that you wrote, any different. Abortion is the ultimate vanity, murder, except when the mother’s life is in danger. The only explanation is an evil ideology that bases its ideals on something much less than life. Why would a human being wish to destroy life this way? Pure self indulgence, arrogance and a dose of thinking they are above the consequences of life, themselves.
Preserving life is biologically necessary, to preserve and promote the human civilization. There is no need to bolster that argument with religious beliefs, other than to confirm the origin of life, the teachings of God and the continuance of civilization. Anything else is irrational and an evil betrayal of humanity.
I share your views, completely.
Buck, you hit SO MANY “bullseyes” in this article, that it’s hard to reply concisely- especially for me.
The tenth amendment is something politicians either don’t know, don’t remember or chose to ignore in their pursuit for ever-increasing power and wealth.
As for the government in general, you probably recall the blind trust I once had in our uniformed leaders and government in general… it was easy to believe that corrupt people were the exception (and a rare exception, at that) not the rule. Remember when we were Guinea Pigs for the newly developed, probably safe, Flu Shots? Now, with age and “experience” I distrust everyone in politics and most people in government. I still have my utopian ideals, and unmitigated belief that America is the best nation on earth for freedom and fair play, but my optimism and trust of those people and institutions is, at best, “guarded.”
Agree with everything you said!
I still believe that Chief Justice Roberts is the source of the leak. I submit he is still being blackmailed for his illegal Irish adoptions and the fact that he appeared on Epstein’s flight logs.
“This week Politico reported that a Leftist clerk within the Supreme Court leaked a pre-decisional document indicating that a majority of the Justices were prepared to overturn the infamous Rowe vs. Wade decision.”
Why does it have to be a leftist clerk? I would think that if Roberts was thinking about or trying to co-opt the February opinion by Alito and Obamacare-ize the opinion to pull its teeth, that there would be good reasons why a right-leaning clerk would preemptively release the opinion to make Roberts attempt fail.
I’m not saying that that’s what happened, I’m just saying that both sides of the ideological divide have possible reasons for leaking this document the way it was leaked.
Theoretically true; as a #NewRules conservative the thought would certainly cross my mind. In practice, though, our side “plays by the rules” while the only rule their side has is “win at all cost.”
Amen brother. Nailed it again