A Pathetic Political Argument on Dobbs from Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan

The side that ‘yells loudest’ is the side demanding that Roe and Casey be upheld.

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Supreme Court jstices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Stephen Breyer attend President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in Congress, Washington, D.C., February 28, 2017.

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It was surprising to see Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan lead off their questioning at the oral argument in the Dobbs case on Wednesday with an incredibly weak and pathetic argument.

Justice Breyer began by focusing on an argument made in 1992 by the Casey troika of Justices Souter, O’Connor, and Kennedy:

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John McCormack

John McCormack is a former Washington correspondent for National Review and was a fellow at the National Review Institute.

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