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634-5789

(4,175 posts)
Wed May 4, 2022, 04:59 AM May 2022

McConnell Calls Abortion Opinion Leak An 'Attack' On Supreme Court By The 'Radical Left'

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WASHINGTON ― Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called the leak of a draft opinion overturning Roe. v Wade a “stunning breach” and an “attack” on the Supreme Court.

“By every indication, this was yet another escalation in the radical left’s ongoing campaign to bully and intimidate federal judges and substitute mob rule for the rule of law,” McConnell said Tuesday morning in a prepared statement.

https://huffpost.netblogpro.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-supreme-court-roe-v-wade_n_62713ac7e4b029505df6f5f5

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McConnell Calls Abortion Opinion Leak An 'Attack' On Supreme Court By The 'Radical Left' (Original Post) 634-5789 May 2022 OP
He has no knowledge of where the leak came from. madaboutharry May 2022 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author COL Mustard May 2022 #2
If the one who leaked it was TFG ? duforsure May 2022 #3
Wow, super telling language there. Really trying to position this as another Jan 6. FreepFryer May 2022 #4
Yeah, Mitch... I heard they built a gallows pole and were threatening to kill Alito ... kentuck May 2022 #5
It's not the leak that matters, it's the contents! Freddie May 2022 #6
Are you sure it wasn't a conservative who leaked it Moscow Mitch? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2022 #7
Who else could it have been? Omnipresent May 2022 #16
It was antifa! eShirl May 2022 #8
The headlines are so outrageous tishaLA May 2022 #9
Huffy Post isn't the same media outlet, gab13by13 May 2022 #14
No Mitch, we need to discuss the radical RIGHT that as a MINORITY PA Democrat May 2022 #10
Mitch Mitch Mitch, Ginna Thomas is not a radical left. Emile May 2022 #11
It was on Morning Joe this morning and I can't find it... OneGrassRoot May 2022 #12
As someone else said they are pushing the leak story to distract from the real story, the republican JohnSJ May 2022 #13
This is looking more and more like a right wing plot to malaise May 2022 #15
Just digusting Johnny2X2X May 2022 #17
Maybe one of McConnell's operatives leaked it. Irish_Dem May 2022 #18
Talk about the tail wagging the dog Chainfire May 2022 #19
"Mob Rule" as opposed to oligarch rule. Liberal In Texas May 2022 #20
Mitch has no room to speak AT ALL on attacks on Supreme Court.... spanone May 2022 #21

madaboutharry

(40,229 posts)
1. He has no knowledge of where the leak came from.
Wed May 4, 2022, 05:27 AM
May 2022

He is just blabbing off.

The consensus seems to be forming that the leak came from the conservative side.

Response to 634-5789 (Original post)

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
3. If the one who leaked it was TFG ?
Wed May 4, 2022, 05:38 AM
May 2022

He would do like he and the GOP did with TFG after he got impeached, make excuses to ignore the rule of law. If it turns out to be a woman clerk, and a jury trial is used, what women member of the jury would convict her, zero. McConnel stole President Obama's pick from him, so he should just shut up. He and TFG has helped create this attack of women's right's , which will expand to many others issues, and many other groups.

FreepFryer

(7,077 posts)
4. Wow, super telling language there. Really trying to position this as another Jan 6.
Wed May 4, 2022, 06:14 AM
May 2022

Wonder who leaked it, given this obvious immediate talking point.

kentuck

(111,110 posts)
5. Yeah, Mitch... I heard they built a gallows pole and were threatening to kill Alito ...
Wed May 4, 2022, 06:32 AM
May 2022

...and that they had a mob ready to swarm the Justice Building and ransack all the offices and spread feces on the walls?

Is that true, Mitch?

Is the Court more important to you than the Congress? And you want to be a Leader in the US Senate?

Freddie

(9,275 posts)
6. It's not the leak that matters, it's the contents!
Wed May 4, 2022, 06:32 AM
May 2022

It’s so “radical left” to want to control our bodies and our lives! He can just go drop dead with the rest of them.

Omnipresent

(5,724 posts)
16. Who else could it have been?
Wed May 4, 2022, 08:08 AM
May 2022

Are there alot of liberals rifling through documents in the office’s of the conservative justices?

Was security alerted afterwards?

Was Their IT dept. able to trace who maybe hacked the document?

So many questions to answer…on their end.

tishaLA

(14,176 posts)
9. The headlines are so outrageous
Wed May 4, 2022, 06:40 AM
May 2022

They should just say that he made a claim devoid of evidence, but what's going to stick is the idea that a liberal attacked the Supreme Court.

We know McConnell is horrible, but the press isn't obligated to give him cover.

PA Democrat

(13,225 posts)
10. No Mitch, we need to discuss the radical RIGHT that as a MINORITY
Wed May 4, 2022, 06:43 AM
May 2022

is imposing their unpopular and dangerous views on the majority.

OneGrassRoot

(22,920 posts)
12. It was on Morning Joe this morning and I can't find it...
Wed May 4, 2022, 07:02 AM
May 2022

In responding to a reporter's question about the draft re: abortion rights, McConnell deflected and repeated the line about it being an attack, but I swear I heard him say "an attack on the Senate" -- not SCOTUS. I think that's equally telling.

JohnSJ

(92,433 posts)
13. As someone else said they are pushing the leak story to distract from the real story, the republican
Wed May 4, 2022, 07:14 AM
May 2022

and the SC taking away a woman’s control over her own body

malaise

(269,200 posts)
15. This is looking more and more like a right wing plot to
Wed May 4, 2022, 07:41 AM
May 2022

have an alternative discourse during what will be very damaging (to ReTHUGs) Jan 6 hearings.
Truth will out. Fuck you MoscowMitch!

Johnny2X2X

(19,140 posts)
17. Just digusting
Wed May 4, 2022, 08:54 AM
May 2022

The leak is a big nothing burger, it's meaningless. The right is just trying to distract from the disaster of the decision for them politically and for women's rights in the US.

Irish_Dem

(47,482 posts)
18. Maybe one of McConnell's operatives leaked it.
Wed May 4, 2022, 09:09 AM
May 2022

We know Mitch has incriminating dossiers on every member of Congress and probably most high level DC leaders.

He doesn't maintain iron fist control of DC by being nice.

Chainfire

(17,656 posts)
19. Talk about the tail wagging the dog
Wed May 4, 2022, 10:02 AM
May 2022

Half of the country is about to have their most basic human rights taken away and the Republicans are going ballistic over the information being leaked early.

Liberal In Texas

(13,584 posts)
20. "Mob Rule" as opposed to oligarch rule.
Wed May 4, 2022, 10:09 AM
May 2022

I'd rather have the "mob" electing representatives and holding them accountable than a legislature and judiciary bought, sold and bribed by the rich.

spanone

(135,891 posts)
21. Mitch has no room to speak AT ALL on attacks on Supreme Court....
Wed May 4, 2022, 10:13 AM
May 2022

After Merrick Garland and Coney Barrett.....

FUCK YOU McCONNELL

RADICAL LEFT MY ASS.

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