Biden Calls ‘MAGA Crowd’ the ‘Most Extreme Political Organization That’s Existed’

President Biden on Wednesday blasted the “MAGA crowd” as “extreme” days after a leaked draft opinion indicated that the Supreme Court may be poised to overturn Roe v. Wade.

The comment came when a reporter asked the president what his administration’s next steps would be if Roe is indeed overturned. Biden replied, “This is about a lot more than abortion.”

He said it reminds him of the “debate” with Robert Bork, whose nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987 was blocked by Senate Democrats and a handful of Republicans.

Biden said Wednesday that Bork believed that the “only reason you had inherent rights is because the government gave them to you.” The president argued that citizens instead have rights because each of them are a “child of God.”

The president went on to cite Griswold v. Connecticut, the 1965 Supreme Court ruling that declared laws prohibiting birth control unconstitutional because the laws infringed upon a supposed “right to privacy.” This same right to privacy was later used to rationalize the decision in Roe in 1973.

“Griswold was thought to be a bad decision by Bork, and my guess is, the guys on the Supreme Court now,” said Biden. “What happens if you have states changing the law, saying that children who are LGBTQ can’t be in classrooms with other children? Is that legit, under the way that the decision’s written?”

“What are the next things that are going to be attacked?” Biden said. “Because this MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history, in recent American history.”

The drafted majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, authored by Justice Samuel Alito and obtained by Politico, reads: “The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives.”

Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed the authenticity of the draft majority opinion on Tuesday morning. 

“Although the document described in yesterday’s reports is authentic, it does not represent a decision by the Court, or the final position of any member on the issues in the case,” Roberts wrote in a statement.

Roberts added that “to the extent this betrayal of the confidences of the Court was intended to undermine the integrity of our operations, it will not succeed. The work of the Court will not be affected in any way.”  The chief justice said that he has “directed the Marshal of the Court to launch an investigation into the source of the leak.”