Mollie Hemingway

They put a footnote to a decision that was not yet ready to come out, knowing that you can't reveal the outcome of a case that has not yet been publicly announced.

It delayed the announcement of Dobbs for another three plus weeks.

Well, and this is a really big issue nationwide, is intimidation of federal judges.

There are laws that say you cannot try to change an opinion by protesting or threatening a judge or a justice.

Merrick Garland had many tools at his disposal.

The Biden White House could have said, we think it's disgusting that you're posting the home address of this justice who lives with his wife and children.

And as you alluded to earlier, Kavanaugh and his family were

faced with an assassin on their street who was trying to murder him and his family, but also he said he wanted to get two other justices as well, presumably the three Trump-appointed justices.

This is not just like a light, ha-ha, funny thing, oh, they got protested, they deserve it.

This is about people murderous with rage being incited by incredibly irresponsible people.

And the media did play a major role in that, both by underplaying the seriousness of these threats, but also lying about what the Dobbs decision did.

It did not say abortion is illegal.

It said it's not in the Constitution, and we all know it.

And so we should return this issue to the people and their legislatures.

That's actually a very modest approach to abortion, certainly much less than what pro-lifers would like to see.

But they lied about it and acted like it was this horrific situation that would lead the country into the handmaid's tale immediately or something like that.

Right.

I would say that my reporting did indicate that there had been previous times where things were a little rough, namely after the 2000 Bush v. Gore decision.

The clerks had trouble.

There's so much clerk interaction across chambers normally, but they had trouble in that era as well.