Is the Supreme Court looking to overturn Roe v. Wade? - PBS NewsHour

Mary Ziegler:

Well, so Chief Justice Roberts is the one we know the most about, because, this summer, he sort of staked out a position in June Medical vs. Russo that essentially he's certainly a skeptic that abortion rights are protected by the Constitution.

But he also seems to be more deferential when it comes to the court's past precedents. So, it would seem that Roberts would be reluctant to overturn Roe and perhaps even to uphold the Mississippi law.

We don't know as much about Barrett and Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh has never voted to strike down an abortion restriction on the court. He joined the dissenters in June. But he seemed a little bit more cautious, certainly, than Justices Thomas and Alito, and wasn't really on the ramparts calling for the immediate overruling of Roe.

Barrett is a question mark, because she said almost nothing about abortion, written no opinions on abortion since joining the court. But we can infer from the court's decision to take this case that there are at least four justices who think that the court will uphold this law and that, certainly, also, that there are four justices who think they have a fifth, right?

So there would be no reason for the court to agree to take this case unless the conservatives think they have a majority, at a minimum, to uphold this Mississippi law, and perhaps to go much further.

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