During ABC’s This Week’s “Powerhouse Roundtable” discussion on the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe V. WadeThe majority liberal panel wasn’t happy. Panelists were much like Martha Raddatz, co-anchor from earlier in this show. USA Today bureau chief Susan Page lashed out at the Supreme Court for coming down with a decision that she didn’t like.
Raddatz was first to claim the Supreme Court is hypocritical using an old tweet by Neal Katyal (leftist Solicitor General)
“Let me read what the former Solicitor General Neal Katyal tweeted right before the decision was announced” Raddatz said before putting Katyal’s tweet on the screen. “He said it’s going to be very weird if Supreme Court ends a constitutional right to obtain an abortion, saying it should be left to the states to decide right after it just imposed a constitutional right to concealed carry of firearms saying it cannot be left to the states to decide.”
“So what happened? How do you read that?” Raddatz asked, turning to Page.
“Look at these two issues together, and it seems to be one conclusion you draw, is there is no way you can argue that the Supreme Court is now not just another partisan player in national politics” Page huffed.
She continued to wail that the Supreme Court is somehow political because they wouldn’t make up a mythical right to an abortion in the constitution: “The idea that it’s a dispassionate group of nine people who are going to just look at the law, it seems to me that has been shredded and what we’re left with is a sense, here’s just another place, another polarized place where politics is what matters.”
“The President who appoints you is what matters. You get through the confirmation process by saying as little as possible about the issues that matter and then you’re on that court” Page said, adding that the “one difference from this and the other two branches of government, lifetime appointment. This decision was made by mostly 50-year-old justices. They’re gonna be there for a long time.”
The ABC meltdown was possible because Carfax. They are linked.
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ABC’s This Week
6/26/2022
Eastern, 9:48:29MARTHA RADDATZ Before the decision was made, I will read the tweets of Neal Katyal (ex-Solicitor General). He said it’s going to be very weird if Supreme Court ends a constitutional right to obtain an abortion, saying it should be left to the states to decide right after it just imposed a constitutional right to concealed carry of firearms saying it cannot be left to the states to decide. How did that happen? What do you think? That is the Second Amendment.
SUSAN PAGE: Look at these two issues together, and it seems to be one conclusion you draw, is there is no way you can argue that the Supreme Court is now not just another partisan player in national politics, the idea that it’s a dispassionate group of nine people who are going to just look at the law, it seems to me that has been shredded and what we’re left with is a sense, here’s just another place, another polarized place where politics is what matters, the President who appoints you is what matters. After passing the confirmation process, you must say as little about the relevant issues as possible and then you are appointed to that court. This court is different from the two other branches of government in that you are appointed for life. The majority of the justices involved in this decision were only 50 years old. They’re gonna be there for a long time.
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