The Fix Was Always In

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from Monday, May 9, 2022,  The Fix Is Always In

A draft opinion on abortion written by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito indicates a majority of justices are ready to vote to over turn Roe V. Wade, the half century landmark case that grants a woman's national right to an abortion.  

As we saw a few months later, the Supreme Court did indeed overturn Roe V. Wade following the script of the draft opinion. The specifics of the case before the Supreme Court did not matter one damn bit. The conservatives on the court were of the mind set that Roe V. Wade was going down, bitch! And there ain't nothing you can do about it.

The revelation of the draft opinion back in May was the result of a leak to the press. On the subject of the leak...

more from Monday, May 9, 2022,  The Fix Is Always In

While most people are concerned about the partisan implications of Alito's leaked memo, Washington DC is more obsessed with who leaked it.  

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a theory:   

“It is very, very likely a law clerk for one of the three liberal justices.” 

Here's what Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had to say on the subject:  “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."   

At the time, there were NO indications on who the hell leaked Alito's memo. 

One theory was that the leaker was a conservative on the court, trying to coerce all five conservative justices to remain in line and stay firm behind the plan to take down Roe V. Wade. 

Also at the time, Chief Justice John Roberts announced an investigation into the leak but nobody's said jack shit about it since then.   

But the story of that leak from earlier this year gained some renewed attention with the revelation of an earlier leak in 2014. 

This involved the 2014 case of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby where Hobby Lobby didn't want to include birth control in their employees health care benefits because it was against their religious convictions.  The court ruled 5 to 4 in favor of Hobby Lobby.  

The decision was not a surprise to Hobby Lobby as one of the justices leaked IN ADVANCE how the court was going to rule.

And the leaker was....

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.   

Of the three branches of government, the legislative branch is the one that is supposed to be above and beyond political considerations. The facts decide the case, not political ideology.

With the allegations of Alito working hand in hand with parties supportive of Hobby Lobby in the 2014 case and the leak of the opinion to overturn Roe V. Wade this year, we're seeing decisions being made in advance of a case and it's attendant facts and a Supreme Court justice taking a side. 

None of this is news to anyone even peripherally aware of the Supreme Court's activities of late. The idea of the Supreme Court as an impartial arbiter of the law and the constitution is put to the lie.