Thu Oct 27, 2022 – 10:12 am EDTThu Oct 27, 2022 – 10:13 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Many Democrats have made no secret of the fact that they would love to pack the Supreme Court, expanding the number of justices to ensure a permanent liberal majority. That is the reason that progressive talking heads so often question the “legitimacy” of the court: not because any of the justices were illegitimately nominated or appointed, but because the decisions being handed down – most notably the overturn of Roe v. Wade – are considered illegitimate by the Left.
That is the reason for headlines like this one in The Guardian: “Samuel Alito assured Ted Kennedy in 2005 of respect for Roe, diary reveals.” Kennedy’s biographer John A. Farrell has published some excerpts from the senator’s diary, including a recounting of a 2005 conversation with Samuel Alito – the justice who penned June’s Dobbs decision – in which Alito states that he is “a believer in precedent” and that a “right to privacy” is “settled.” In Dobbs, of course, Alito wrote that the right to privacy does not extend to feticide.
This story is a nothingburger – Alito was
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