<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court</a> Justice <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/samuel-alito" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Samuel Alito</a> recently discussed the reality of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/free-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">free speech</a> on college campuses and law schools, pointing to the disturbing culture surrounding the lack of free dialogue. 
During a discussion at the Heritage Foundation, Alito was <a href="https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/justice-alito-takes-direct-aim-at-law-schools-for-abysmal-and-dangerous-free-speech-climate-as-conservative-judges-boycott-his-alma-mater/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> about the situation on college campuses, as well as law schools, regarding freedom of speech. He said it is “pretty abysmal,” “disgraceful,” and “really dangerous for our future as a united, democratic country.”
“We depend on freedom of speech,” Alito said. “Colleges and universities should be setting the example, and law schools should be setting the example for the university because our adversary system is based on the principle that the best way to get at the truth is to have a strong presentation of opposing views. So, law schools should be free to speak their minds without worrying about the consequences, and they should have their ideas tested in rational debating.”
He pointed to different reports about law school campuses, as well as discussions he has held with students, where free speech has been an issue but was not specific about which schools to which he was referring. 
Alito <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-courts-alito-calls-law-school-free-speech-abysmal-2022-10-26/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> &#8220;based on what I have read and what has been told to me by students,&#8221; some law schools are &#8220;really not carrying out their responsibility&#8221; to safeguard the speech of students and &#8220;have their ideas tested in rational debating.”
Alito went on to discuss his beliefs about different types of speech when asked about “protected and unprotected speech.”
He <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzRqIcXPmKw&amp;t=2820s&amp;ab_channel=TheHeritageFoundation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the Justices he has disagreed with in the past generally agree with him about the importance of free speech. 
“The real test, as Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, is whether we’re willing to protect the speech that we hate,” he said. 
“Any speech involving public interests, involving politics, government, history, economics, law, science, religion, philosophy, the arts — anything of that level of importance — the general rule has to be the government has to stay out,” he said, adding that the First Amendment doesn’t safeguard “the right of anybody to say anything they want” whenever they feel like it.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justice-alito-says-leaked-draft-opinion-overruling-roe-v-wade-made-majority-targets-for-assassination" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, Alito also said that the leaked draft majority opinion to get rid of Roe v. Wade risked the lives of some of the Justices. 
“The leak also made those of us who were thought to be in the majority in support of overruling Roe and Casey targets for assassination because it gave people a rational reason to think they could prevent that from happening by killing one of us,” Alito said.
Last month, U.S. Circuit Judge James Ho said that judges shouldn’t hire Yale law students due to the “cancel culture” at the school. He discussed an incident that happened in March when Yale students interrupted a discussion with an attorney who defended a Colorado baker who wouldn’t bake a cake for a homosexual wedding. Ho <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/10/21/free-speech-concerns-prompt-calls-shun-yale-law-grads" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed</a> out that the students hadn’t been punished for their actions, which meant “Yale not only tolerates the cancellation of views—it practices it.”
U.S. Circuit Judge Elizabeth Branch joined the decision not to hire Yale students earlier this month.

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Justice Alito Discusses ‘Pretty Abysmal,’ ‘Disgraceful’ Free Speech Situation At Colleges, Law Schools

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Discusses ‘Pretty Abysmal,’ ‘Disgraceful’ Free Speech Situation At Colleges, Law Schools

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court">Supreme Court</a> Justice Samuel Alito said Tuesday during a Heritage Foundation event that the initial leaked draft majority opinion to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision put some justices&#8217; lives in danger.
&#8220;The leak also made those of us who were thought to be in the majority in support of overruling Roe and Casey targets for assassination because it gave people a rational reason to think they could prevent that from happening by killing one of us,&#8221; Alito told the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s John G. Malcolm, who asked the justice how the leak affected the court.
On May 2 of this year, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473">POLITICO</a> published the draft from Dobbs v Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization from an unidentified source.
Almost two months later, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the monumental Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion across America.
Alito wrote that Roe and a subsequent case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which upheld Roe must be overturned, and the right to allow, deny, or restrict the right to an abortion must reside with states.
The 6-3 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization followed the early May leak of the draft opinion indicating which way the justices would rule. That leak prompted nationwide protests, particularly in Washington, D.C., and dozens of acts of vandalism were reported at pro-life organizations, centers, and churches, which probed Chief Justice John Roberts to launch an investigation into the unauthorized disclosure.
No information on who leaked the draft has been made public.
&#8220;It was a grave betrayal of trust by somebody,&#8221; Alito said. &#8220;And it was a shock because nothing like that had happened in the past,&#8221; adding that the leak changed the atmosphere of the court during the remainder of the term.
Alito further noted that during the time between the leaked draft and the final decision, a California man allegedly threatened to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/man-pleads-not-guilty-trying-kill-justice-kavanaugh-rcna34874">NBC News</a> reports authorities arrested Nicholas John Roske, of Simi Valley, California, in June near Justice Kavanaugh&#8217;s home armed with a handgun, a knife, pepper spray, and burglary tools. Roske pleaded not guilty to the charge.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a pending case, so I won&#8217;t say anything more about that,&#8221; Alito said.
The threats against the nation&#8217;s highest court have continued since the overturning.
According to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/alito-says-leaked-abortion-opinion-made-conservative-justices-targets-rcna54033">NBC</a>, authorities arrested a Georgia man last week after police found him driving in Washington with two handguns and a shotgun, planning to &#8220;deliver documents&#8221; to the Supreme Court.
Alito switched gears after discussing the dangers he and other conservative Justices faced.
&#8220;But that was last term,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Now where we&#8217;re in a new term. I think that all of us . . . want things to get back to normal — the way they were before all of this last term . . . before COVID . . . [to] get back to normal to the greatest degree possible — and that&#8217;s what we hope will happen.&#8221;
&#8220;I think everybody is working on that,&#8221; he added.
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Mary Margaret Olohan contributed to this report.

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Justice Alito Says Leaked Draft Opinion Overruling Roe v. Wade Made Majority ‘Targets For Assassination’

Justice Alito Says Leaked Draft Opinion Overruling Roe v. Wade Made Majority 'Targets For Assassination'

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Supreme Court Justice <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/samuel-alito">Samuel Alito</a> slammed foreign leaders who attacked the Court&#8217;s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization.
Speaking at the University of Notre Dame&#8217;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uci4uni608E&amp;t=1467s">Religious Liberty Summit</a> last week, Justice Alito fired back at a number of foreign leaders who criticized the <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf">Dobbs decision</a>, which overturned Roe v. Wade and restored power to the states to legislate the issue of abortion. Alito poked fun at some of them, including ousted former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and Prince Harry, who gave an impassioned lament at the United Nations comparing Dobbs to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Alito prefaced his comments by talking about a crisis of shrinking freedom of religious speech from foreign courts, which he intended to criticize. “I think we can see this sort of narrowing, particularly in the area of religious speech in the jurisprudence of some countries that profess to be dedicated to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of conscience,&#8221; Alito said. &#8220;Now when I was putting these remarks together, I was tempted at this point to provide some examples. I am not a diplomat &#8230; I wouldn&#8217;t be very bad about it, but it was unusual for me, this sort of diplomatic impulse came upon me, and I said to myself, &#8216;you&#8217;re an American judge, and what business is it of yours to criticize decisions that are handed down by foreign courts?’”
Alito then said that he was perfectly within his rights to criticize because of the criticism he received over the Dobbs decision.
“I&#8217;ve had some second thoughts over the last few weeks, since I had the honor this [Supreme Court] term of writing the only Supreme Court decision in the history of that institution that has been lambasted by a whole string of foreign leaders, who felt perfectly fine commenting on American law,&#8221; he said, eliciting a few laughs from the audience. &#8220;One of these was former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. But he paid the price,&#8221; Alito said, as the audience broke into laughter and applause. &#8220;Post hoc ergo propter hoc, right?&#8221; Alito joked.
&#8220;But others are still in office,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;[French] President [Emmanuel] Macron, and [Canadian] Prime Minister [Justin] Trudeau, I believe, are two. But what really wounded me, what really wounded me, was when the Duke of Sussex addressed the United Nations, and seemed to compare the decision whose name may not be spoken with the Russian attack on Ukraine.&#8221;
Alito, however, took the high road. &#8220;Well, despite this temptation, I&#8217;m not gonna talk about cases from other countries,&#8221; he said. &#8220;All I&#8217;m gonna say is that, ultimately, if we are going to win the battle to protect religious freedom in an increasingly secular society, we will need more than positive law.&#8221;
Johnson, Macron, Trudeau, and other <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americas-foreign-allies-some-with-stricter-abortion-laws-than-u-s-lament-supreme-court-abortion-decision">foreign leaders</a> criticized the United States after the Dobbs decision was released. Johnson called the move a “big step backward.”
“I’ve always believed in a woman’s right to choose, and I stick to that view,” Johnson said. “And that’s why the U.K. has the laws that it does.” Johnson was forced to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-boris-johnson-resigns-as-great-britains-prime-minister">resign</a> in July over allegations that he held parties during the COVID lockdowns.
At a speech to the United Nations in July, Prince Harry called the Dobbs decision part of a “a global assault on democracy and freedom.”

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Justice Alito Claps Back At Foreign Leaders Who Criticized ‘Dobbs’ Decision

Justice Alito Responds To Foreign Leaders Who Criticized 'Dobbs' Decision

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New reports suggest that Chief Justice John Roberts <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/politics/supreme-court-john-roberts-abortion-dobbs/index.html">lobbied hard</a> to prevent the more conservative members of the Supreme Court — namely Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett — from voting to <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/pope-says-he-respects-supreme-court-decision-that-overturned-roe/">overturn Roe v. Wade</a>.
Roberts ultimately voted with the six-justice majority upholding a new Mississippi abortion law — capping abortions at 15 weeks — in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, but joined the four-justice minority in voting to uphold Roe. However, he did pen his own dissenting opinion stating that he would have opened the door for states to impose stricter limits on abortions, particularly after the first trimester.
And according to recent reporting, Roberts worked diligently to bring the conservative justices around — until someone leaked an early opinion draft indicating the landmark abortion case, along with the subsequent Planned Parenthood v. Casey, could be in danger.
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/politics/supreme-court-john-roberts-abortion-dobbs/index.html">CNN reported</a> that Roberts had been focused on swaying the two newest justices — Kavanaugh and Barrett — but that he had been derailed somewhat when the leaked draft, authored by Justice Alito, became public.
&#8220;Roberts’ persuasive efforts, difficult even from the start, were thwarted by the sudden public nature of the state of play,&#8221; the report stated. &#8220;He can usually work in private, seeking and offering concessions, without anyone beyond the court knowing how he or other individual justices have voted or what they may be writing.&#8221;
The report also concluded that Roberts&#8217; efforts, however fervent, did not appear to be moving the needle with regard to Kavanaugh and Barrett even before the leak — and added that if threats against their families was not enough to sway them from their position, it was unlikely the Chief Justice would have been successful.
CNN&#8217;s &#8220;New Day&#8221; covered the topic on Tuesday morning as well:
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New CNN reporting from <a href="https://twitter.com/JoanBiskupic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoanBiskupic</a>: Chief Justice John Roberts privately lobbied his fellow conservative justices to preserve Roe v. Wade – but the unprecedented leak of the draft opinion may have doomed his efforts. <a href="https://t.co/g0fKkIT14f">pic.twitter.com/g0fKkIT14f</a>
&mdash; New Day (@NewDay) <a href="https://twitter.com/NewDay/status/1551892687447531522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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A number of critics followed the decision overturning Roe with accusations against Kavanaugh and Barrett specifically, claiming that <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/pelosi-blasting-abortion-decision-suggests-kavanaugh-gorsuch-lied-hear-rcna35208">they had lied</a> during their Senate confirmation hearings when they stated that the 1973 decision was &#8220;precedent.&#8221;
But both also declined to answer any questions about how they might vote in future cases — as those questions were rooted in hypotheticals — and precedents have been overturned in the past when the law was later found to be unjust. Examples of those include Plessy v. Ferguson — which allowed racial segregation under the banner of &#8220;separate but equal&#8221; and was later overturned in Brown v. Board of Education — and Korematsu v. United States, under which Japanese Americans were rounded up and placed in internment camps while the United States battled the Empire of Japan in World War II.

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ShutDownDC announced on Friday that organizers would pay anyone who could tip protesters off to the locations of the conservative Supreme Court justices — and the price increased if they were still at the named location 30 minutes later.
The call for tips went out after news broke that Justice <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/police-arrest-armed-man-near-brett-kavanaughs-home-who-allegedly-wanted-to-kill-the-justice-report/">Brett Kavanaugh</a> had been forced to leave Morton&#8217;s Steak House in Washington, D.C., through a rear exit in order to avoid a crowd of protesters gathered outside the restaurant.
&#8220;DC Service Industry Workers&#8230; If you see Kavanaugh, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Coney Barrett or Roberts DM us with the details! We&#8217;ll venmo you $50 for a confirmed sighting and $200 if they&#8217;re still there 30 mins after your message,&#8221; @ShutDown_DC&#8217;s tweet read.
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DC Service Industry Workers&#8230; If you see Kavanaugh, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Coney Barrett or Roberts DM us with the details! 
We&#39;ll venmo you $50 for a confirmed sighting and $200 if they&#39;re still there 30 mins after your message. <a href="https://t.co/xXWZ5JZiE7">https://t.co/xXWZ5JZiE7</a>
&mdash; ShutDownDC (@ShutDown_DC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShutDown_DC/status/1545421407223521280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Politico&#8217;s Daniel Lippman <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2022/07/08/schumer-ups-pressure-on-mcconnell-in-usica-reconciliation-dance-00044652?nname=playbook&amp;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&amp;nrid=0000014c-2414-d9dd-a5ec-34bc527c0005&amp;nlid=630318">reported</a> on Kavanaugh&#8217;s disrupted dinner departure, noting, &#8220;Justice Brett Kavanaugh had to exit through the rear of Morton&#8217;s on Wednesday night after DC protestors showed up out front.&#8221;
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NEW: Justice Brett Kavanaugh had to exit through the rear of Morton&#39;s on Wednesday night after DC protestors showed up out front. A Morton&#39;s rep told me: &quot;Politics … should not trample the freedom at play of the right to congregate and eat dinner.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/wlA4J2nxYW">https://t.co/wlA4J2nxYW</a> <a href="https://t.co/jpsfhB3JVo">pic.twitter.com/jpsfhB3JVo</a>
&mdash; Daniel Lippman (@dlippman) <a href="https://twitter.com/dlippman/status/1545357451234615298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Lippman reported that Kavanaugh did not actually come into contact with any of the protesters but left the restaurant through a back door without staying for dessert.
A spokesperson from Morton&#8217;s gave a statement after the incident, telling Politico, &#8220;Honorable Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh and all of our other patrons at the restaurant were unduly harassed by unruly protestors while eating dinner at our Morton’s restaurant. Politics, regardless of your side or views, should not trample the freedom at play of the right to congregate and eat dinner. There is a time and place for everything. Disturbing the dinner of all of our customers was an act of selfishness and void of decency.&#8221;
Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy questioned Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about the incident, asking whether President Joe Biden and his administration had any issues with protesters continuing to harass the conservative justices outside their homes or in public.
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Doocy on Kavanaugh being forced out of a DC restaurant by protesters: &quot;So these Justices, because protesters do not agree with an opinion&#8230; have no right to privacy?&quot;
Jean-Pierre: &quot;This is what a democracy is.&quot;<a href="https://t.co/26EIf4ptiZ">pic.twitter.com/26EIf4ptiZ</a>
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&#8220;People should be allowed to be able to do that,&#8221; Jean-Pierre replied. &#8220;If it&#8217;s outside of a restaurant, if it&#8217;s peaceful, for sure.&#8221;
Doocy pressed again, asking whether she meant that the administration was signing off on protesters following the justices around simply because they didn&#8217;t like a ruling the court had issued.
&#8220;People have the right — this is what a democracy is,&#8221; Jean-Pierre insisted.

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ShutDownDC Promises To Pay Tipsters For SCOTUS Whereabouts

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The U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s decision on Friday to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-states-supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade-leaves-abortion-restrictions-to-states">overturn</a> the monumental <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/roe-v-wade">Roe v. Wade</a> case that legalized abortion across America was &#8220;strikingly similar&#8221; with &#8220;barely any changes&#8221; to the leaked draft of Justice Samuel Alito&#8217;s opinion earlier this spring, according to several who have compared both copies.
On May 2, an anonymous individual <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-supreme-court-strikes-down-roe-v-wade-decision-in-draft-of-majority-opinion-report-says">gave</a> Politico a copy of Alito&#8217;s opinion, showing that the High Court was poised to strike down Roe as well as Planned Parenthood v. Casey. That leaker has not been identified. As <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/politics/dobbs-mississippi-supreme-court-abortion-roe-wade/index.html">flagged</a> by CNN, a cursory glance shows that Alito&#8217;s language at the heart of the matter was nearly identical in both the official as well as the draft opinion.
The line, &#8220;What sharply distinguishes the abortion right from the rights recognized in the cases on which Roe and Casey rely is something that both those decisions acknowledged: Abortion destroys what those decisions call &#8216;potential life&#8217; and what the law at issue in this case regards as the life of an &#8216;unborn human being,&#8221; a line that the draft also included.
Likewise, the line, &#8220;Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences,&#8221; was included in both versions.
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Alito&#39;s opinion appears very similar to the leaked draft. This line is in both. 
&quot;Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RoeVsWade?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RoeVsWade</a>
&mdash; Jay O&#39;Brien (@jayobtv) <a href="https://twitter.com/jayobtv/status/1540339755887607808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Alito&#8217;s response to the three dissenting justices, however, was not included in the leaked draft.
&#8220;The dissent is very candid that it cannot show that a constitutional right to abortion has any foundation, let alone a &#8216;deeply rooted&#8217; one, &#8216;in this Nation&#8217;s history and tradition.'&#8221; Alito <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/politics/dobbs-mississippi-supreme-court-abortion-roe-wade/index.html">said</a>. &#8220;The dissent does not identify any pre-Roe authority that supports such a right &#8212; no state constitutional provision or statute, no federal or state judicial precedent, not even a scholarly treatise.&#8221;
As explained by Ethics and Public Policy Center president Ryan T. Anderson, &#8220;There are barely any changes&#8211;apart from responses to the dissent and the concurrence&#8211;in the Alito majority opinion. That shows 1) how strong the leaked draft was, and 2) how pathetic the various criticisms of it were, and are. Roe and Casey are simply indefensible.&#8221;
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There are barely any changes&#8211;apart from responses to the dissent and the concurrence&#8211;in the Alito majority opinion. That shows 1) how strong the leaked draft was, and 2) how pathetic the various criticisms of it were, and are. Roe and Casey are simply indefensible.
&mdash; Ryan T. Anderson (@RyanTAnd) <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanTAnd/status/1540345560611389441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The leak prompted protests across the nation, particularly in Washington, D.C. as well as dozens of attacks and vandalism of pro-life organizations, centers, and churches.
Alito wrote that Roe and Casey both must be overturned, and the right to allow, deny, or restrict the right to an abortion must reside with states.
“And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division,” Alito wrote in his majority opinion. “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
The leaked draft, substantially the same as Friday’s decision, had already galvanized pro- and anti-abortion foes outside the Supreme Court building and even the homes of conservative justices.
Mary Margaret Olohan contributed to this report.
This is a developing story; please check back for updates.

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Supreme Court’s Abortion Decision Nearly Identical To Leaked Draft

Supreme Court's Abortion Decision Nearly Identical To Leaked Draft

On Friday, The Supreme Court of the United States issued a landmark 6-3 ruling overturning both <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/roe-v-wade">Roe v. Wade</a> and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-states-supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade-leaves-abortion-restrictions-to-states">its decision</a> on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization —  a challenge to a Mississippi law greatly restricting the federal right to abortion.
&#8220;Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division,&#8221; Alito wrote in his majority opinion. &#8220;It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people&#8217;s elected representatives.&#8221;
Read the entire decision <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/579589630/The-Daily-Wire-Dobbs-State-Health-Officer-of-the-Mississippi-Department-of-Health-Et-Al-v-Jackson-Women-s-Health-Organization-Et-Al">here</a> and copied below:
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READ IT: Supreme Court’s 147 Page Decision Overturning Roe V. Wade

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Justice Samuel Alito ordered a pause for counting undated Pennsylvania ballots from a local race in 2021 even as legal teams for Republican Senate candidates Dr. Mehmet Oz and David McCormick battle over similar issues in a PA Senate primary recount in court.
Oz, a television host and surgeon, currently leads McCormick, a former Bush official and hedge fund executive, by fewer than 1,000 votes. The narrow margin prompted the Pennsylvania Department of State to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pa-republicans-wont-know-who-their-senate-nominee-is-for-at-least-another-two-weeks-commonwealth-says">order a recount</a> in accordance with commonwealth law. The McCormick campaign has filed suit to make county election boards tally undated mail-in ballots.
Alito, who is in charge of emergency requests for Pennsylvania, issued an administrative stay for the counting of certain ballots in a judge&#8217;s race from 2021, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/31/supreme-court-pennsylvania-undated-ballots-alito/">The Washington Post</a>. The Supreme Court is weighing the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit’s ruling that undated ballots received on time ought to be counted. This could impact the counting of ballots for the PA senate primary.
“The state’s requirement is that mail-ballot voters ‘fill out, date and sign’ a form declaration on the outer envelope used to return ballots,” the Post explained. “But the federal judges said not counting the votes of those who did not provide a date violated federal civil rights law because the requirement was immaterial to the voters’ qualifications. There are no indications of fraud, the ballots were received by the state’s deadline and election officials noted they would have counted ballots with the wrong date but not those with no dates at all, the judges said.”
While the McCormick campaign supports the counting of undated ballots, the Oz campaign — with the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-sides-with-oz-in-pennsylvania-recount-election-laws-are-meant-to-be-followed">backing</a> of the Republican National Committee (RNC) — argues that the ballots should remain uncounted. Indeed, the Oz campaign has claimed that McCormick is “following the Democrats’ playbook” and eroding voters’ confidence in the election.
Oz called himself the “presumptive Republican nominee” at the end of last week. “It’s time to unite. I want to hear your ideas and make this country’s future as bright as it has ever been,” Oz said in a social media video. “With more freedom, less big government, and by empowering our people, America’s light will shine brighter than ever.”
McCormick’s lawsuit asserted that the county election boards are “disenfranchising” voters who did not date their ballots. The suit, therefore, demands that the boards count ballots “that were returned on time but that lack a handwritten date on the exterior mailing envelope.”
Both campaigns <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pennsylvania-court-hears-arguments-that-could-decide-oz-mccormick-contest">presented their cases</a> to the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court on Tuesday. Although the court has sided with the Oz campaign’s position in similar past cases, “it will be interesting to see whether the Third Circuit’s opposite stance on the issue influences its thinking going forward,” the <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/live/pa-republican-senate-primary-recount-results-mehmet-oz-david-mccormick-20220531.html">Philadelphia Inquirer</a> observed.
Oz or McCormick will face Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman in November. Fetterman carried every county and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pennsylvania-democrats-pick-basketball-shorts-and-hoodie-clad-john-fetterman-over-rising-star-conor-lamb-in-senate-primary">defeated rising star</a> U.S. Congressman Conor Lamb in the Democratic Senate primary.
Nationwide <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-polls-signal-major-problems-for-democrats-ahead-of-2022-midterm-elections">midterm polling</a> has so far indicated that Democrats face an uphill battle to keep and gain representation in Congress. The November election will determine the successor of Sen. Pat Toomey, a Republican who is retiring after two terms in the Senate. Because Pennsylvania has historically been a swing state, Democrats hope to flip the seat.
A previous version of this article incorrectly said that Alito&#8217;s decision involved the PA Senate Primary. It involved a local race from 2021.

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The Supreme Court will be releasing &#8220;one or more&#8221; opinions on Monday amid tensions over a leaked draft opinion indicating that justices may have decided to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The justices met privately on Thursday for the first time since the leaked draft opinion shook the nation, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett-john-roberts-299fafc4818a63b34bcfaba75f54df4a">according to the Associated Press</a>.
Though the justices did not give any indication about what they discussed in the private conference, the publication reported, they did reveal that on Monday, at least one decision will be announced. SCOTUSblog also noted that &#8220;one or more&#8221; decisions would be released on Monday.
There are 37 unresolved cases that have been argued in the fall, winter, and spring, according to the AP, noting that the justices usually have issued all their decisions by the beginning of the summer.
During a question and answer session Thursday night with George Mason University&#8217;s law students at the Antonin Scalia Law School, Justice Samuel Alito avoided addressing the court&#8217;s mood.
“The court right now, we had our conference this morning, we’re doing our work,” Alito said, <a class="" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/12/samuel-alito-roe-wade-leak/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Washington Post reported</a>. “We’re taking new cases; we’re headed toward the end of the term, which is always a frenetic time as we get our opinions out.”
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NEW: Next Monday will be a Supreme Court opinion day. Starting at 10 a.m. EDT, the court expects to issue one or more decisions in argued cases from the current term.
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POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473">broke the news</a> May 2 that the Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark decision, reporting that Justice Samuel Alito had written an opinion draft that is an “unflinching repudiation” of Roe v. Wade.
The draft majority opinion, which is not final, says Roe v. Wade was egregiously wrong.
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote. “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
Following the leak of the draft opinion last Monday, conservative activists and legal experts <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservatives-legal-experts-call-for-justices-to-release-roe-v-wade-decision">quickly called</a> for the Supreme Court to release its decision on Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
“Obviously no one can actually force the Chief Justice’s hand,” Judicial Crisis Network&#8217;s Carrie Severino told The Daily Wire last week, “but he may want to release the opinion early to avoid exposing the Court to further pressure and intimidation tactics that risk undermining the Court as an institution as a result of the draft opinion hanging out there for what could be months.”
The unprecedented leak has sent shockwaves throughout Washington, with many commentators noting that a draft decision has never been publicly released in the modern history of the court.
On May 3, Chief Justice John Roberts <a href="https://www.axios.com/justice-roberts-abortion-leak-da48f1b2-087f-4a43-b037-068be226ce2c.html?stream=top&amp;utm_source=alert&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=alerts_all">released</a> a statement confirming that the draft document is real, but emphasizing that it did not represent the Supreme Court’s final decision.
“We at the Court are blessed to have a workforce — permanent employees and law clerks alike — intensely loyal to the institution and dedicated to the rule of law,” the chief justice said.
“This was a singular and egregious breach of that trust that is an affront to the Court and the community of public servants who work here,” he added, noting that he has “directed the Marshal of the Court to launch an investigation into the source of the leak.”

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CNN brought out Susan Squier, who graduated from Princeton with Justice Samuel Alito 50 years ago, to attack the conservative justice over his recently-leaked early decision draft.
The <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/clarence-thomas-speaks-out-on-draft-leak-says-court-cant-be-bullied/">draft</a>, which indicated that the Supreme Court might be poised to overturn two landmark abortion rulings — Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey — has sparked outrage among Democrats and left-leaning pundits, and has led to <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/psaki-says-there-is-no-official-u-s-government-position-on-activists-protesting-outside-scotus-justices-homes/">protests</a> at the Court and at the private homes of individual justices.
Squier, now a professor at Penn State University, said that she had been so angry that she helped to organize a group letter — signed by herself and some of the other women in Alito&#8217;s graduating class — attacking her former classmate, and she joined anchor John Berman on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;New Day&#8221; to discuss the draft that she claimed had left her &#8220;stunned&#8221; and &#8220;angry.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, I have read a lot of medical history going back, for doing literature and medicine, and his is like a greatest hits of misogyny,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He doesn’t consider the context. And this man was a historian at Princeton. He was a double major in history and Poli sci. But it is as if he doesn’t believe history actually involves a record of things changing. Instead, it is history as, ‘let’s go back to the Salem witch trials.’ It makes me so angry.&#8221;
Squier&#8217;s letter, which was published in the <a href="https://paw.princeton.edu/inbox/response-alito-72-defense-womens-rights">Princeton Alumni Weekly</a> and signed by 28 of her classmates (along with seven others listed as &#8220;friends of the women of &#8217;72&#8221;), stated that the undersigned were &#8220;deeply shocked&#8221; and complained that the draft would &#8220;reverse the strides we thought we were making.&#8221;
&#8220;We ask our classmates, and the community of Princeton, to protest the logic that ties us to a constitutional originalism which resists any movement toward justice but, rather, moves us backwards. As Jill Lepore so aptly put it in The New Yorker, &#8216;Women are indeed missing from the Constitution. That’s a problem to remedy, not a precedent to honor,'&#8221; the letter continued.
&#8220;Those of us who went to Princeton have a privilege of having gone there, we can get listened to. So, we have to speak for the women who cannot get listened to, the women who are going to be massively impacted — I hate that word — by this horrible new decision,&#8221; Squier told Berman to wrap up the segment.

‘Back To The Salem Witch Trials’: CNN Trots Out Alito Classmate — From 50 Years Ago — To Attack Him On Air

CNN Trots Out Alito Classmate — From Princeton 50 Years Ago — To Attack Him On Air

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A pro-LGBT group in Northern Virginia is claiming that the state&#8217;s attorney general is targeting transgender kids even as escalating tensions over a pending Supreme Court decision on abortion threaten to turn the Old Dominion into a political powder keg.
Equality Loudoun <a href="https://twitter.com/EqualityLoudoun/status/1523138543773954049">claimed</a> that it &#8220;has obtained information that Attorney General Jason Miyares &#8230; is seeking to obtain the records of queer students in Loudoun County.&#8221; Miyares is already under fire from pro-abortion rights groups who have been protesting outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, whose draft opinion overturning Roe v Wade was leaked on May 2. On Monday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bullet-hole-found-in-window-of-virginia-attorney-generals-office-report">a bullet was fired</a> through a window at his Richmond office.
&#8220;Every single elected official and special interest group, regardless of their politics, must condemn this action unequivocally,&#8221; said Ian Prior, a Loudoun parent activist who leads the group Fight For Schools. He called the gunshot &#8220;an attempted deadly attack on the rule of law.&#8221;
There was no indication Monday whether the shot was related to either ongoing controversy, but Equality Loudoun was forceful in <a href="https://twitter.com/EqualityLoudoun/status/1523138543773954049">stoking outrage</a> against Miyares.
&#8220;In a community already wracked by politically-motivated hate against our LGBTQ+ population, we strongly condemn the targeting of our transgender students simply because of their identity,&#8221; the group said.
Miyares is investigating Loudoun County Public Schools’ notorious handling of a bathroom rape by a transgender student who was quietly transferred to another school where he attacked another student.
On Monday, Steve Descano, a far-Left prosecutor elected to the post in Fairfax County with the help of cash from George Soros, jumped on the claim, <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveDescano/status/1523796677219749888">tweeting</a>: “This is so goddamn dangerous. For an AG to use a special grand jury to get at trans kids’ records is truly beyond the pale. This whole episode is an abuse of process and morally repugnant.”
Loudoun County Supervisor <a href="https://twitter.com/julibriskman/status/1523826981921513472">Juli Briskman</a> also pushed the activists’ claims, tweeting: &#8220;So AG Miayres [sic] witch hunt subpoenas are targeting LGBTQI youth, specifically? This is wrong. How many other students have been targeted in this way?&#8221; That was preceded by a retweet that said, &#8220;Hey, Republican Party. Go f&#8211;k yourselves.&#8221;
But on Tuesday night at a Loudoun County Public Schools board meeting, even LCPS’ attorney Robert Falconi attempted to put the hysteria to rest.
&#8220;I want to make clear, I have personally not seen any subpoena that specifically requests the identities of any transgender students or LGBT students,&#8221; he said.
In addition to being called on to protect Alito and other justices, whose Northern Virginia homes have seen nightly protests, Miyares has also had to contend with threats to picket Virginia churches over the pending abortion ruling.
“Some on the extreme left have responded to this week’s reprehensible leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion by calling for pro-abortion protests inside and outside of Catholic parishes this Sunday,&#8221; Miyares said in a statement. &#8220;I deeply respect the First Amendment rights of speech and assembly. But no one has the right to interfere with the fundamental and natural right of all Virginians to practice their religion in peace.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dad-facing-criminal-charges-for-accusing-woke-activist-of-grooming">Dad Facing Criminal Charges For Accusing Woke Activist Of ‘Grooming’</a>

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Tensions Boil In Virginia As Shot Fired At AG’s Office; LGBT, Pro-Abortion Groups Seethe

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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Tuesday that the administration continues to support what they claim are &#8220;peaceful&#8221; protests outside the homes of Supreme Court justices.
The remarks come after leftists have protested outside the homes of <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/psaki-refuses-to-condemn-protests-outside-justices-homes-accuses-gop-of-hypocrisy-for-calling-out-intimidation/">several</a> Supreme Court justices after a draft of the court&#8217;s majority opinion showed that they are set to overturn the controversial Roe v. Wade decision.
&#8220;I think I said yesterday, but I&#8217;m happy to repeat because I think it&#8217;s important for everybody to hear that the president&#8217;s long-standing view has been that violence, threats, and intimidation of any kind have no place in political discourse,&#8221; Psaki said Tuesday. &#8220;And we believe, of course, in peaceful protests.&#8221;
&#8220;So, I know that there&#8217;s an outrage right now, I guess, about protests that have been peaceful to date, and we certainly continue to encourage that outside of judges homes,&#8221; Psaki later added. &#8220;And that&#8217;s the president&#8217;s position.&#8221;
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Multiple Republicans have called out the administration&#8217;s response to leftists showing up to the homes of Supreme Court justices.
“None of these Democrats care. Joe Biden won’t condemn it. The White House won’t condemn the leak. Instead, they sit back and say, ‘Oh, isn’t that interesting,’” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disgraceful-sen-ted-cruz-blasts-democrats-championing-the-radicals-protesting-at-the-homes-of-justices-and-in-churches">said</a>. “These thugs have no business at the private homes of any government official, these Supreme Court justices or anyone else.”
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-cant-tolerate-intimidation-chuck-grassley-torches-protesters-attempting-to-bully-supreme-court">tweeted</a>, “We can’t tolerate intimidation as a political tool It’s 1 thing to peacefully demonstrate &amp; another to undermine institutions like SCOTUS+harass justices at home bc of a decision u might not like And ANYONE making threats of violence should be arrested &amp; prosecuted.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pence-calls-on-biden-to-speak-out-forcefully-against-potential-violence-against-justices-disruptions-of-catholic-masses">Pence Calls On Biden To ‘Speak Out Forcefully’ Against Potential Violence Against Justices, Disruptions Of Catholic Masses</a>

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