Former State Secretary Hillary Clinton has been keeping quiet lately. After all, it’s difficult to make money from a book tour during a pandemic.
However, she broke her silence on Tuesday to opine about the Supreme Court’s latest stunning abortion ruling.
“Last night, the Supreme Court officially overturned five decades of settled law and permitted Texas’ unconstitutional abortion ban to stand.” That is, emphatically, not what happened said critics.
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The Supreme Court didn’t “overturn” anything last night. Rather, the court simply decided not to issue an emergency injunction against Texas’ new law.
The court didn’t rule on whether or not the law is constitutional.
That issue is still being litigated in lower courts.
The court simply decided not to stop the enforcement of the law while the law is being litigated.
Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito explicitly said as much.
“We cannot say the applicants have met their burden to prevail in an injunction or stay application,” he wrote.
“We stress that we do not purport to resolve definitively any jurisdictional or substantive claim in the applicants’ lawsuit,” he continued. “In particular, this order is not based on any conclusion about the constitutionality of Texas’s law, and in no way limits other procedurally proper challenges to the Texas law, including in Texas state courts.”
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He even said, “The applicants now before us have raised serious questions regarding the constitutionality of the Texas law at issue.”
Yet, progressives are still falsely claiming that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro sent Hillary reeling with a sharp comeback —
Every word of this is a lie, including "the" and "and" https://t.co/Izq73JM4mB
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 2, 2021
Similar tweets to Hillary’s are still popping up.
Rep. Cori Bush (D–Mo.) tweeted that the court had “effectively overturned” Roe.
So did Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.). In fact, Cortez even went a step further than Bush. She argued that the court had overturned Roe formally.
Ocasio-Cortez quote-tweeted the dissenting opinion of Justice Sonya Sotomayor, but she still misrepresented the case.
In the span of one week the Supreme Court forced 11 million households to face eviction and effectively overturned Roe v. Wade in the middle of the night.
This is what far-right extremism looks like. We need to expand the court.
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) September 2, 2021
Republicans promised to overturn Roe v Wade, and they have.
Democrats can either abolish the filibuster and expand the court, or do nothing as millions of peoples’ bodies, rights, and lives are sacrificed for far-right minority rule.
This shouldn’t be a difficult decision. https://t.co/GcEjkxt3gs
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 2, 2021
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A similar tweet was made by former U.S. Attorney Barb McQuade, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama.
In other words, the lies came from up and down the bureaucracy.
Blatant disregard of 48 years of precedent under Roe and of the irreparable harm that is being inflicted on women seeking abortions in Texas every minute this law is in effect. https://t.co/vQ7XumxTJF
— Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) September 2, 2021
As Hillary Clinton pointed out, the court’s majority opinion was only one paragraph long.
Still, it seems none of these progressives understood it.
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