The Hypocrisy of the Dobbs Dissenters

The Court’s staunchest advocates of unchecked federal power now complain that the majority placed no limits on Congress’s right to regulate abortion.

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(left to right) Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, and Elena Kagan

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Americans searching for evidence that the Supreme Court’s illegitimate half century of interference in American abortion policy has had an incorrigibly corrupting effect on the integrity and coherence of our judicial system need look no further than this line from the dissent in Dobbs, which, in a crowded field of contributions, jumped out at me for the sheer extravagance of its cynicism:

Can the dissenters be serious?

Charles C. W. Cooke

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Charles C. W. Cooke

Charles C. W. Cooke is a senior editor at National Review and the host of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast.

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