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Biden Lies About the SCOTUS Draft Opinion, Ends up Making Things So Much Worse – Opinion

By Pluralist / May 3, 2022

Joe Biden released a formal statement to react to the SCOTUS draft decision leak. Biden, in fact, attacked the Court using the leak to rally his supporters, and instead of criticizing the Court for being wrong. Biden stated that pro-abortion Democrats must get out to vote in November. It was wrong to vent anger at the Court.

But then, Biden didn’t leave it there and made it a lot worse with off-the-cuff remarks just before he boarded Air Force One.

Biden said that the draft opinion was “the main reason why I worked so hard to keep Robert Bork off the Court. It reflects his view almost — almost word — anyway…”

This serves as a reminder of the fact that Supreme Court confirmation hearings have been extremely divided since 1987. It was Joe Biden, who initiated the highly divisive Supreme Court hearings with Robert Bork’s nomination by Ronald Reagan. Bork had a high level of qualifications, but Biden says that he was kept from the Court because he did not want to vote for the Democrats on abortion. This was the beginning of the effort by Democrats to destroy and demonize nominees who might not vote the way that they wanted, to “bork” nominees.

All the craziness afterward–from the “high-tech lynching” of Clarence Thomas to the smearing of Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett–can be traced back to what Biden did to Bork. The politicization not only caused irreparable damage to the confirmation process but it also damaged the Court’s character. Because of the actions taken by Biden, nominators are now regularly under threat from radical leftists.

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In fact, it was a desperate act of pandering to the far left of his party — an attempt at rehabilitation after his campaign-ending plagiarism scandal in 1987. “He needed to be vindicated,” said his wife Jill to reporters. “It was about Bork. It was about Bork’s politics, but it was also about Joe.”

Biden then chastised the Court for the draft opinion, saying it endangered a “whole range of rights,” claiming that if it held, it was “really quite a radical decision” (even though he hasn’t read it yet). Again, it’s completely improper for him to be commenting on the case, particularly at this critical juncture, and whipping it up to implicate even more things than it does.

“And the idea we’re letting the states make those decisions, localities make those decisions would be a fundamental shift in what we’ve done,” Biden said. Indeed. It’s a change from the legislating from the bench, back to leaving the decision to legislatures and the people–where it should have been to begin with.

Chief Justice Roberts has confirmed it was a real leak, and he also said that the effort to disrupt the Court “will not succeed.” Roberts didn’t confirm the other possible “leak” about his own opinion on the case.

Biden was asked about his concern about the Court’s leak. He didn’t respond, and he didn’t condemn the leak. That tells you everything right there — he doesn’t give a darn about if this hurts the Court; he only cares about his agenda — using this to help them in the election and to kill the filibuster.

Biden was also requested if he thought the Senate should eliminate the filibuster to codify Roe. He stated that he supported codifying Roe.

He then outrightly lied about the contents of his draft opinion.

Roe says what all basic mainstream religions have historically concluded — that the right — that the existence of a human life and being is a question. What time is it? Are you sure it is six months? It is six months or six weeks? Is it — is it quickening, like Aquinas argued?

I mean, so the idea that we’re going to make a judgment that is going to say that no one can make the judgment to choose to abort a child based on a decision by the Supreme Court, I think, goes way overboard.

That isn’t what the draft opinion says, and it wouldn’t be what the Court decided, even if this draft becomes official. Biden lies and suggests that ending abortion would be possible. This would simply state that the decision rests with the citizens and states. That’s what he doesn’t want to say. And this is one of the reasons you’re not supposed to comment, much less lie about what the Court’s decision would involve. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

What he also leaves out, of course, is what the religions like Catholicism — the religion he claims to follow — think that abortion is wrong.

Then Biden went way over the edge, saying he was not “prepared to leave” the decision “to the whims and the…and the…of the… public at the moment.”

That pretty much says it all — they don’t want to leave it up to the people, because they will lose. They are ultimately “anti-choice.” The only way they can achieve their aims is by legislating from the bench, and they will hold onto it in any way they can — even lying, attacking the Court, and endangering the Justices, as Biden is doing here. And notice, he called the fetus a “child,” just throwing his argument under the bus.

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