Trio of Senate Republicans urges Supreme Court to overrule Roe v. Wade

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: The Hill

Three conservative Senate Republicans on Monday filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to overturn its landmark precedents that protect the constitutional right to abortion.

In a 33-page brief, Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) asked the court to use a Mississippi case to be reviewed next term as a vehicle to overturn Roe v. Wade and related rulings. Calling the status quo "untenable," the senators said the legal doctrine on abortion that emerged over roughly the past five decades since Roe was decided in 1973 has given judges excessive discretion and proven unworkable.

"Roe and Casey should be overruled, and the question of abortion legislation should be returned to the states," they wrote, referring also to the court's 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.

"Where a legal doctrine has repeatedly failed to offer clarity - where it has proved unworkable in the past and will likely engender unpredictable consequences in the future - its existence constitutes an open invitation to judges to interpret it according to their own policy preferences, usurping the constitutional prerogatives of the legislature," the senators wrote.

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[Xipe Totec]

1. Abortions should be banned for anyone with one or more testicles. nt

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. I feel like saying

If women banded together and didn't give any sex to any man until abortion and access to birth control for any female that wanted it,regardless of age or economic status,was made a guaranteed right by law that can't be overturned ever ,that's the only thing they would pay attention to the female side of it.

Then when they try to rationalze themselves eviscerate thier arguments to dust and demand it be a right.

Maybe men should be made to clean house and take care of his kids more.

Bet that would change his tune after about 20 months..

[Casady1]

4. Lysistrata n/t

[murielm99]

7. Yep.

[Casady1]

3. Rights can not be on the state level

The states have been the abuser of rights dating back to slavery.

[Lonestarblue]

5. Men like Hawley, Lee, and Cruz should have a say when they can get pregnant.

They just need to shut up and stop abusing women’s rights for political points. If the Supreme Court overturns Roe, they’re saying that women have no right to make their own medical decisions and the religious right gets to make those decisions for them. The objection to abortion is a religious issue, and establishing a religious belief is too close to establishing the beliefs of one religion over others and replacing the secular law required in the Constitution. I really, really hate these hypocritical Republicans who want to save fetal cells while letting women and children, and indeed many poor people, die because they have no access to healthcare.

[Hestia]

21. Roe v Wade is so MUCH more than about privacy and abortion - it is a woman's right

to her own name instead of legally having to use her husbands name, to keep her own money and not have a man (father, husband) keep it, her own checking account, right to her own credit without a man co-signing, no say so if the father wants to sell off his daughter in marriage, as women won't have equal access to court system, birth control without a man's okay will be thrown out too.

Women will lose so much if R v W is overturned. It will destroy women's access to the Constitution (voting rights is not the same thing).

Men, especially GQP, know what they are doing when they try to overturn R v W. Incels will especially have a hay day, demanding marriage to the woman they want to use and abuse.

Again, this goes way beyond abortion.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Regulation of women is discrimination on the basis of gender

unless men are subject to the same regulation, which they cannot be, biologically.

[BlueStater]

8. Seditious traitors shouldn't have a say over women's reproductive rights.

They shouldn’t even have jobs or be free men.

[lordsummerisle]

9. I don't know much about how the Court works

1) Doesn't an amicus brief have to be involved in a current case? I thought that the court was currently on recess.
2) Can anyone file an amicus brief like this? I remember in high school civics that this was very expensive to do. Is this a privilege that senators have?
4) Call me naive but shouldn't it be unethical for one branch of government to try to pressure the judiciary to rule a certain way?

[kairos12]

10. Commander wannabes. Scumbags and traitors all. Pro-Gilead fascists.

[Deacon Blue]

20. Handmaid's Tale...

…grows more relevant everyday.

[sakabatou]

11. Those three traitors want to force women to be pregnant and barefoot

[roamer65]

13. If Roe v Wade is overturned, it will be the powderkeg that ignites political hell.

It will drive in a permanent wedge between the states.

[cstanleytech]

16. I suspect that a number of Republicans in office are having a cow now though because for years

they have used it as a football to rally their base around but they know if it actually was to happen that it might very well give our people something massive to rally around and that scares the Republicans.
After all it could cost a lot of them an election not to mention it could galvanize a Democratic push to do things like increasing the number of SCOTUS spots and pack the new spots with young liberal judges.

[Hestia]

22. Especially if woman were to lose their own credit and checking accounts, having to ask their

father's permission in order to do so. Can you image girls/women having to hand over their paychecks to their fathers or brothers?

[DallasNE]

14. "Own Policy Preferences"

So they are openly calling for the Supreme Court to ignore the Constitution and instead for the Justices to use their own policy preferences. That stands the rule of law on its head. Policy preferences are the domain of the Congress with the approval of the President. Nowhere does it give Justices an option to use their own policy preferences. What is untenable is what these 3 Senators that have no regard for the rule of law are asking.

[C Moon]

15. Typical pre-election rhetoric from the GOP: "let's make abortion a hot topic"

They just can't seem to come up with new ideas.

[padah513]

17. They are looking at months and months of Jan. 6 testimony

So expect them to fling all kinds of crap against the wall trying to change the subject.

[Harker]

18. There's nothing conservative about them.

They're radical.

[MurrayDelph]

19. There SHOULD be a quick test

Do you now, or have you ever had a uterus?

No? Then you have no standing.

[apnu]

23. These pricks "Where a legal doctrine has repeatedly failed to offer clarity"

The whole Republican party has been filibustering any legislation to find "clarity" for 40 years.

Fuck all of them.

[Efilroft Sul]

24. Birth should've been the last time these three fools were associated with a woman's vagina.