The vote to overturn Roe was 5-4 not 6-3

[Tomconroy]

Justice Roberts voted simply to uphold the Miss. ban on abortions after 15 weeks thus concurring in the result not the judgment. For whatever that is worth.

[dchill]

1. It is worth a fart in the wind. To me.

[Solomon]

6. It's not funny, but...

[dchill]

12. It's funny that the Chief Justice thinks it will save ...

...his legacy. And sad.

[spooky3]

2. Thanks. Nt

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Robert Barnes' tweet within seconds of the decision said

6-3, but in the first four paragraphs of the article in the WaPo he nowhere stated what the numbers were. That could change with editing.

[leftieNanner]

4. Once Again Roberts Gets To Pretend To Be A Sensible Guy

He still gets his result though.

[irisblue]

5. A distinction with no difference.

I know Nina Totenberg, SCOTUS reporter for NPR was saying this earlier today. It makes no difference in real life.

edited. Tweets from Steve Inskeep from his conversation with Totenberg.

Link to tweet

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Link to tweet

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[LiberalArkie]

14. And next is

"right to contraception",
"sex between consenting adult men",
"same-sex marriage"
"inter-racial sex and marriage"
"sex between un married couples" ie adultery.

All those were against the law when I was a kid.
Also pornography.

[Voltaire2]

7. It is worth shit.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

8. I've been saying RBG's seat could have made the difference.

[FBaggins]

13. It didn't

Scalia/Garland/Gorsuch's seat did.

Without losing RBG's seat - it would have been Roberts' decision... which still would have effectively undone the common understanding of Roe/Casey and allowed states to return to regulating abortion at least back to about the end of the first trimester.

[unblock]

9. If I understand correctly, his opinion would be to evicerate roe without declaring it dead

He wanted to merely approve laws that violate roe without declaring that roe is no more, and leave it to future cases to make roe's death obvious.

In short, he agreed with overturning roe but was too cowardly to own up to it.

[FBaggins]

10. Yes and no

If Roberts' opinion were read on its own... many would interpret it as overturning Roe.

voted simply to uphold the Miss. ban on abortions after 15 weeks

Which could not occur under Roe/Casey.

I agree with the Court that the viability line established by Roe and Casey should be discarded under a straightforward stare decisis analysis. That line never made any sense.

...snip...

Let me begin with my agreement with the Court, on the only question we need decide here: whether to retain the
rule from Roe and Casey that a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy extends up to the point that the fetus is regarded as “viable” outside the womb. I agree that this rule should be discarded.

First, this Court seriously erred in Roe...

[Tomconroy]

15. If Roberts opinion prevailed there would still be a constitutional

Right to an abortion.

[FBaggins]

16. True enough - but few would spin it as "upholding Roe"

Because it wouldn't be

[RANDYWILDMAN]

11. Anyone Defending Roberts is an idiot, Roberts is trying to protect his rep

nothing more, he is a self serving CON, just like the rest of them, he just just does not want his legacy drug through the mud. Too late John.

[Xoan]

17. Crappy presidents appoint crappy jurists.