Supremes in disarray!

[cilla4progress]

"After the leak, the Supreme Court seethes with resentment and fear behind the scenes"

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/08/1103476028/after-the-leak-the-supreme-court-seethes-with-resentment-and-fear-behind-the-sce

Snip:

At the Supreme Court, nothing is as usual this term after the leak of Justice Samuel Alito's draft opinion in the biggest abortion case in nearly a half-century.

Normally at this time of year, the justices would be exchanging hundreds of pages of draft opinions and working with each other to resolve differences and reach consensus in the most challenging cases of the term. Instead, the court is riven with distrust among the law clerks, staff and, most of all, the justices themselves.

[elias7]

1. As if they hadn't figured out who leaked the draft

That was all the rage from Republicans until it wasn’t. The silence implies a Republican leak, as if the SC could be political

[Baitball Blogger]

2. What were they thinking?

Why do autocrats think they can shove their rule down people’s throats and expect them to behave like docile sheep? I have seen this over and over. Heard one guy say, “People use to get mad at you for a little while, but then things went back to normal.”

Except that each time some asshat made their power grab, that line of normal began to shift. And now, here we are today with everyone looking for a comeuppance.

[brush]

3. Glad it was leaked and glad SCOTUS is in disarray.

I really thing the six wingers are in disarray and the other three sensible justices and their clerks/staff are not upset at all, in fact, they're probably reveling in the discomfort of the others whose plan to take away women's rights was expose prematurely before they had completed their scheming to make it palatable to the nation...which of course it will never be.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Hmmm... does Softening language really

Accomplish anything? The court should be resolved in their Rulings. On the other hand, I see merit on softening opinions.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. There will be significant protests when and if Roe is overturned

[pfitz59]

6. My father was an ER doctor pre-Roe

Far too many women and girls presenting with botched abortions. SCOTUS has mis-read the nation. Women will never go back to how it was.

[GenThePerservering]

7. We left the 17th century behind

I don't think Alito understands that.