The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today on a Mississippi anti-abortion law. The decision could have far-reaching implications regarding Roe v. Wade.
Starting momentarily: Oral argument in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case involving Mississippi’s attempt to ban nearly all abortions after 15 weeks. The state has asked the court to overturn Roe v. Wade. We’ll be live-tweeting the argument here in this thread.
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) December 1, 2021
Justice Sonia Sotomayor has quickly emerged as the real star of the proceedings:
Now Sonia Sotomayor picks up the same point about the danger to the Supreme Court's legitimacy. She notes that 15 justices over 30 years "of varying political backgrounds" have reaffirmed the viability line from Roe and Casey.
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) December 1, 2021
Sotomayor suggests that the architects of Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban (as well as Texas' six-week ban, which is also currently pending before the court) believe they can succeed at the Supreme Court merely because the membership of the court has changed.
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) December 1, 2021
Sotomayor is not pulling any punches: "Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception — that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts? I don’t see how it is possible."
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) December 1, 2021
https://twitter.com/HashtagGriswold/status/1466069187760173059
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1466067398348443650
She’s also an inspiration to all pro-aborts who are struggling to come up with the most heinous arguments against the humanity of the unborn:
Justice Sotomayor trying to argue that in dead people, the foot will recoil. “Spontaneous acts by ‘dead brain people‘ so I don’t think a response by a fetus necessarily proves there is s ENT ion of pain or consciousness.” “What changed in the science,” she pushes further.
— Gayle Trotter (@gayletrotter) December 1, 2021
That seems like CJ Roberts pushing back on Justice Sotomayor.
Sotomayor now picking up her questioning by noting medical literature that the bodies of braindead people sometimes react to stimuli.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 1, 2021
Sotomayor just compared an unborn child recoiling at being poked or prodded to a brain dead person having some sort of physical reaction
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) December 1, 2021
"There are spontaneous actions by dead-brain people."
Sotomayor.— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 1, 2021
It doesn’t come off any better when you actually listen to her:
https://twitter.com/Mockingjay8911/status/1466071261730144257
Our jaws have crashed right through the floor.
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1466069642821226499
Why on earth would Justice Sotomayor choose this approach out of all possible approaches to this issue?
Big yikes https://t.co/RjMQBLatou
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) December 1, 2021
It was a very ghoulish exchange.
— Scarlett 🍸 (@fledtothesouth) December 1, 2021
Does Sotomayor still pretend to be Catholic or nah? https://t.co/BFKqTP4yhb
— RBe (@RBPundit) December 1, 2021
If she’s still pretending to have a soul, she’s not fooling anyone.
Sonia Sotomayor discussing the brain dead pic.twitter.com/5mvtbMPcEw
— F. Billy McMorris (@FBillMcMorris) December 1, 2021
GP Sotomayor now arguing fetuses are the equivalent of the brain dead.
And now I want to wise-ass answer her, "Well, Justice, you're proof that the brain dead can achieve great status."
— The Gormogons (@Gormogons) December 1, 2021
Justice Sotomayor might be brain dead. https://t.co/A5nnVOuCEx
— rfs (@popsylvania1) December 1, 2021
We’re no more doctors or scientists than Justice Sotomayor, but there may be something to that diagnosis.
I can't believe Sotomayor compared an unborn child who is overwhelmingly likely to develop full brain function to a brain dead adult who has basically zero chance to do so.
— Nick Carrington (@nick_writing) December 1, 2021
https://twitter.com/BeanDipChamp/status/1466068435637612550
We can only assume.
These people are monsters https://t.co/YHf8lmaeSk
— Leonydus Johnson (leave/me/alone) (@LeonydusJohnson) December 1, 2021