Will the court survive this? Will our democracy survive this? That’s how big, how terrifying the implications of this decision are
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Getty Images The only moment that felt real in today’s Supreme Court session on whether or not Americans will lose our fundamental right to access abortion occurred about 20 minutes in. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, speaking slowly and gravely, was asking Mississippi’s solicitor general about a more recent abortion ban enacted by the state legislature, one that is even harsher than the 15-week ban before the Court.
Everything else was legislative theater — a sickening act of propriety, legal argument, and supposed objectivity cloaking the source of that rotting stench Sotomayor had detected: a fanatical right-wing political movement hell-bent on controlling and marginalizing certain groups in our society.
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