Mollie Hemingway

knowing that their colleagues' lives were under threat, knowing that their colleagues' children's lives were under threat, intentionally slow walked the Dobbs decision by two months, including not just not getting it done, not getting their dissent done so that it could be released, but also including in that dissent a footnote to a decision that was still being worked on by both sides.

So they knew that that decision wouldn't come out until quite near the end of the term.

Now, how

This is the opposite of collegiality when you are knowing that your colleagues' lives are being threatened and you are just slow walking something that could put that all away.

Because, you know, to explain.

Well, it's a dramatic 50-year-long story.

The moment Roe v. Wade is handed down, pretty much everybody agrees it's slop.

whether you're on the left or you're on the right, people are like, what is this?

It's not even trying to be constitutional law.

But because it created this so-called right to abortion, there were people who were willing to just hang everything onto preserving Roe so that the...

the abortion regime could continue there were many efforts to overturn roe over the decades most famously in 1992 with the kcb planned parenthood decision but three of the republican appointed justices figured out a way to sort of rewrite roe they said they told everybody now you have to stop fighting about it well obviously that didn't happen and so the fights continued

With the Dobbs decision, the court knew by February of 2021 that they were going to take this decision.

They didn't announce it for a few months.

But that meant that all the justices on the court knew what was going to happen.

They hear oral arguments in December of 2021, and after that, they meet in conference.

That's where just the nine justices gather, and they talk about how they're going to vote.

So it's pretty clear then that you have five votes to overturn

overturn Roe, and six votes to uphold the Mississippi law in question.

So when you have a majority... Wait, that's too many.

Five and four.