Arrr! Them Democrats be blamin' them Dobbs decision on scurvy, extremist justices. Aye, mateys, it be a year since the Supreme Court ruled!
2023-06-23
Avast ye scallywags! The landlubbin' Democrats gathered on Friday to commemorate a year hence the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Arrr, let's hope they don't be walking the plank come election day!
Arrr, me hearties, the House Democrats be calling out the Supreme Court justices who overturned federal abortion protections as "corrupt" and "extremist." They be remembering the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health ruling from last year, and sayin' that if the GOP cared about letting people decide their stance on abortion for themselves, they wouldn't have banned the option for half the country. The court's conservative majority voted 5-4 to overturn the landmark 1973 case Roe v. Wade last June, while voting 6-3 to uphold the Mississippi 15-week abortion ban at issue in Dobbs. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., called last year's ruling "one of the most egregious and offensive decisions that the Supreme Court has ever rendered." The Democrats be makin' abortion a core campaign issue in the wake of the June 2022 ruling. It has also turned the apolitical Supreme Court into a political lightning rod, revamping calls from the left to expand the bench in a bid to even out the current conservative supermajority. Currently, there are 17 states plus Washington, D.C., that have laws protecting abortion, while limits or bans exist in 24 states. The Democrats be swingin' their sabers and fightin' for their rights, me hearties!