“An Actual Insurrection”: Conservatives Equate Supreme Court Roe v. Wade Leak to Literal Violence

Republicans’ decades-long campaign to reshape the Supreme Court and overturn Roe v. Wade has never looked more successful. And yet, Republican lawmakers and top conservative pundits have primarily responded to Monday’s news—that the Supreme Court has preliminarily voted to overturn nationwide protections for abortion access—with seething anger toward the anonymous figure who leaked the draft opinion to Politico. Republican lawmakers spent Tuesday repeatedly pushing unfounded theories that the leak is part of some left-wing scheme—one supposedly spearheaded by a liberal clerk or justice—meant to intimidate the court weeks before it overturns the federal guarantee of abortion rights in the U.S…. Read Full Article