The Shocking SCOTUS Leak and the GOP's Decades-Long Plot to Overturn Roe: A Closer Look
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- Seth takes a closer look at the five conservative Supreme Court justices poising to overturn Roe v. Wade and erase a woman's constitutional right to bodily autonomy, subverting the will of the vast majority of Americans and defying a half-century of legal precedent.
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The Shocking SCOTUS Leak and the GOP's Decades-Long Plot to Overturn Roe: A Closer Look - Late Night with Seth Meyers
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Tired of people constantly calling Susan Collins a "Moderate Republican" there is NO Such Thing as a Moderate Republican, she's as Far-Right as the rest of'em.
How far? So far Right, she Left a trail! 🙄🙄🙄
Trump 4ever 🤣
@@tuyenle8107 His prison time?
Susan Collins was so good in “On Golden Pond”.
Thank you for speaking truth!
Whenever the GOP say ANYTHING, always remember that: *every accusation, is a confession.*
You know it!
Remember that none of you will fight against Fascism to protect your "rights and freedom."
Always remember that your apathy let this happen.
@@Marijuanifornia You are full of it, as usual - MILLIONS have been resisting this for DECADES. I'm one of them. Get a grip...
Conservative SCOTUS members: "but Donny Tiny Hands told me to do it".
A similar statement could be made about the DNC.
Friend of mine has always maintained that one of the central messages of the GOP and their followers is “Poor us! We’re sooooooo persecuted! We can’t force our belief system on others, therefore our rights are being violated!”
Honestly, if I was a law clerk there and that came across MY desk. I think I would accept the consequences and leak it. Because it's too important for people to know about.
Yep. I am in the legal profession, but still studying. This has been a topic of discussion as you can imagine. It is mixed. I am with you. I think somethings are more important than others. There has always been great sacrifice in order to affect change. We need more people to do this.
Get it on paper. Stick it in your cellphone pocket. Walk into the WaPo office lobby. "accidentally" let it drop out of your pocket as you reach for your cell.
@@COSjultrakay I find the GOP-Issues covered by TH-camr Some more News way more interesting and better exectued than this video here, tbh.
Totally agreed the closed door, usually means is something they don't want known, and most likely something that should be known, if they were honest
Okay Miss Collins call for those three people to be impeached. They lied under oath right? That seems like grounds for impeachment to me.
Ms. Collins should be held accountable.
She'll have to get back to you. Something about a spine she lost over three years ago.
#CluelessCollins
Collins failed all women in America.
@@mariegarside8830
That old washed-up has-been needs to call it quits.
'They're not anti-abortion. They're anti-women'. George Carlin. True dat!
Thank you, YES. The far right's Handmaid's Tale wet dream is becoming real. Nobody with any sense at all believes this crap is about saving babies. (they damn sure don't care about saving babies in Detroit from lead poisoned water) It's about having dominion over women's bodies. I still miss George Carlin.
Bit of a problem when democrats can't even define what a woman is. Maybe it's the cognitive dissonance that makes the left behave like children with developmental issues.
They're Pro-Control
all 3 major religions ALL say women are subservient to men!
probably a weird coincidence!
@vic absolutely false, that's why your rebuttal was so vague.
THE BIBLE EVEN SAYS EVE CAME FROM ADAM'S RIB, you lying liar.
it's weird: the ONLY ppl i've ever met who have NOTHING in common with the teachings of Christ......are RELIGIOUS PEOPLE!
"the only ppl who live like Jesus would....are all ATHEISTS!" - George Carlin
A woman's right to make decisions concerning her own body is the right law. Over turning Roe v. Wade is another reason why government needs to get rid of the filibuster.
I don't vote for the GOP, but I am absolutely increasingly angry at what the demarcated party is not doing. Even if things won't pass bc of the tight majority, they don't even know how to fight for those things that are ripping apart our democracy
no one is telling the truth: ROE WAS WRITTEN BY FIVE REPUBLICAN JUDGES and 2 dems!
IT'S A GOP LAW!!
Both sides lied every day!
@@jonbongjovi1869 true story...it's a little complicated. but everyone lied
@@COSjultrakay; We have a filthy group of sick religious seditious zealots that are trying to destroy the Democracy.
Calling anti-abortionists "pro-life" is extremely misleading, and should be stopped. Most women who get abortions are also "pro-life", and want to live, and at the right time, might later want to have children. It's like calling someone who overeats "pro-food", implying that someone who eats correctly is "anti-food". Or calling some women, who decide not to have children at all, "anti-life". Most of the terms used in this debate are seriously flawed in their application, and cause erroneous emotional reactions.
Yes. They do that on purpose.
Anti-choice.
Orwellian. They are "Anti-Abortion", also being against public school, paid family leave, etc.
Actually, 60% of the women getting abortions already have children, at least one.
This is a joke right? Have kids "at the right time MIGHT later want to have kids"? So being truly pro-life means you want life to prosper only when its convenient. Thats some weird ideogy.
@@lawvere Kind of like Pro-life, but refuse to wear a mask, social distance, get vaccinated and promote well these old folks should sacrifice their lives for the economy? So pro-children that they oppose free school lunches? So concerned about groomers and traffickers' but defend and promote Gaetz, Jordan, and Moore? "Being truly pro-life means you want life to prosper only when its convenient. Thats some weird ideogy." Isn't it though....
Yes, playing the victim while systematically removing rights has been their MO for a while now.
41years!
Guns killing kids?
@vic But healthcare is ❤️
@vic - YOU are one of the ZEALOTS subverting this Republic. A fetus is NOT a person or "baby" no matter how many times you FREAKS say otherwise. You are NOT doing God's work - that's a grandiose fantasy of yours...
@vic So excuse me for saying this, but if the GOP want to be "pro-life", then explain to me where all the programs are for helping mothers who are now going to be FORCED to give birth? What about the kids? Once they're born, what about childcare? What about maternity care and leave (of which the US is one of the only countries in the WORLD to offer NOTHING in that regard)? What about funding for adoption programs and agencies that make unwanted pregnancies easier? What about psychological help for the 14 year old that got, let's say, victimized walking home from school? You wanna make abortion illegal, then do something about that too.
No? Radio silence? Okay, then it's not "pro-life", it's "anti-choice".
YES it is a HUGE deal that this opinion was leaked.... that's the ENTIRE POINT. Somebody realized that the decision is so ridiculous that they would risk their career on leaking it.
And anyone who thinks this end with abortion. They are going not just for gay marriage but all non missionary straight married sex.
I mean, if it was a conservative leaking it on hopes of cementing the decision, then they're not really risking their career. Republicans have established pretty clearly by this point that they do not have standards.
How is it ridiculous to correct an error made by the court years ago.
Keep in mind the original decision was leaked as well, sort of gone full circle here.
I want you to punish these protesters the way you do for the Jan. 6 protestors... They are hitting police officers and this is a FEDERAL BUILDING.
Lying, deception, and secrecy. Why are these “morally righteous” judges acting like a spouse who’s having an affair?
Yep... why also are they not even asking Clarence to recuse himself from cases that could give the appearance of bias as related to his wife? This leak, as bad as it might be, is certainly not worse than Ginny Thomas' directly removing confidence from the supreme courts ability at "blind justice"
@@COSjultrakay SCOTUS has always been CRIMINAL (even the Declaration of Independence says ALL judges are inherently corrupt!).........only now are the sheep realizing it.
EX:
NO Obama judge could participate in ANY case connected to Obama policies.
NO Trump Judge could legally participate in ANY case connected to Rump.
YET THE JUDGES IGNORE THE LAW and don't recuse themselves.
DUBYA BUSH was installed by judges HIS DADDY HIRED!
Burn all their mansions down.
@@COSjultrakay GOP was covered by Cody Johnston.
They take away their constituents' right to privacy, in private, knowing most of their own colleagues have paid (and will always be able to obtain) an abortion whenever they have a wife, daughter or mistress that needs one.
GOP: “We want as little government interference in our lives as possible.”
Also GOP: “We support the government controlling people’s bodily autonomy.”
Trump 4ever 🤣
@@tuyenle8107 Brandon won!
@@shanesischo7378 psst, the left doesn't really like Biden either. We just think he's a better choice than Trump.
not all people. Just women.
@@tuyenle8107 see, someone is actually making a point and then you come and just have Trump live "rent-free" in your heads since you love him so much.
Solidarity with my American friends - please throw everything you have into the midterms, a lot is at stake. And remember that Women's rights are only the first on the chopping block, if they get away with this, even more will be taken away.
Wishing you strength and sending you best wishes from Europe
Trump 4ever 🤣
Thanks. Women will always surprise you. Don't know ant to tangle with an angry woman, and boy are we angry. THIS ain't over until the fat lady sings 😂
thank you, agree!
@@tuyenle8107 Gay Marriage will be next, just you watch. So, why do you support people who take rights away from others?
Frightening!
Perhaps these same Judges should pass a law which states that ALL men/boys have a vasectomy unless they are legally married. You can bet that those same Judges would NEVER pass this as a law. You can also bet there would be hundred's of thousand's of men who would loudly protest. The laws should be equal for women & men. Plus what are these same Judges going to ensure that American men take care of the children they have already created? How many single women are out there financialy taking care of their chilren but the men of those same children are not forced to actually pay the child support they are required to pay.
You do realize that to be pregnant takes a man and woman? You know, having sex and fertilizing the egg. You’re acting like theres a virus impregnating women going around, women can just not have sex and be abstinent before meeting the right man. Or take lots of precautions with contraceptives
"This is an insurrection". This is the seminal moment of what-aboutery. How pathetic they are.
The scotus should never be secret. Everything they discuss should be public access.
And they definitely shouldn’t have lifetime appointments!!
@@richardgreen3081 We'd have to change the constitution to end lifetime appointments though. The secrecy of the SC on the other hand is something that they've made up themselves.
They do more harm than good...it's a system that's played out, and not about *justice.* It's a political entity.
Welcome to America
And should require a unanimous court.
Since the argument was that abortion rights aren't expressly allowed in the constitution it could be sent back to states I would say the same should be said of SCOTUS's desire for privacy. If it isn't in the constitution then I guess they can STFU.
@@MauiMauiMe Some of us do. While we're still allowed to read, that is.
@@MauiMauiMe
The Patriot Act already did away with the 4th amendment. Were you asleep when that happened?
A vast majority of the cases the Supreme Court looks at are not expressly stated in the Constitution. Does that mean we should overturn all of them? Or does that argument only apply to cases Conservatives dislike? I think we all know the answer to that.
Eh Dittzy, how are your vile clones doing? You get tired of CNN?
They have no jurisdiction to charge anyone with a crime for leaking this draft. The person can be fired but that is about all that can happen, and no they cannot confiscate anyone's phone because that WOULD be against the law.
their evil intention to make abortion illegal was so shocking that one of the clerks or other staffers couldn't take it and risked their employment and professional future to bring this to the forefront.
When we live in a time where people consider killing unborn children "evil" it makes me realize how backwards our society is.
@@lawvere clump of cells my male friend who'll never be confronted with this issue anyway and thus has no say in the matter.
The GOP: “the party of freedom (and also taking away specific rights from certain groups)”
Since there isn’t even a code of ethics at the Supreme Court, what was illegal about releasing an unclassified document?
Same thing illegal about squealing on your fellow mobsters.
@@kylestubbs8867 ie not technichally illegal, but not done especially if you want to wake up the next day. lol.
No thug likes a snitch, and no greater thug than unaccountable, closed door 'public servants', who are above the law to the point of the government covering up their crimes...LIKE PERJURY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let alone turning women into forced broodmares for the state, ala SLAVERY. These POS judges pretend a woman use as an incubator, outweighs their RIGHT TO BODILY AUTONOMY. See the 13th amendment, people (and scum judges).
@@gorkskoal9315
“lol”?
They can decide what's "ethical" and what's not because they are the only branch of the government that has no external oversight.
I will never understand why we allow a bunch of elderly, out of touch people to govern themselves, set their own payrates and hide everything they do.
Where I live, Supreme Court Judges retire like everyone else latest at age 67.
Don't say we. Not all of us wanted them in those seats. Not all of them got in those seats morally or with integrity. The Republican, fascists, conservative, idiots of America put them there. But the right knew that grew would be stupid enough to vote for them.
Age has nothing to do with it. These are corrupt individuals. They have no honor.
it you allow a 2000 fairytale book to govern your country then things like this will always happen
It's important that Niki understands these things. Her understanding is crucial.
Seth I wish you would take a closer look at the Federalist Society shine some light on them and how they became the de facto selector of Republican Supreme Court justices.
I’ve never seen a society take away rights and also not descend dramatically politically and economically.
The events of the past 6 years made a lot of citizens at least think about moving to another country.
The three branch of government. Checks and balances and separation of church and state are out the door. Thanks GOP and the uneducated for electing them
Yep, that'd be a lot of my dad's side of the family, and they are not the brightest bulbs in the bunch let me tell you and I don't care if they see this.
If they could, they would have the US become a Christian theocracy. I have no doubt about it.
such ignorance
Not just the uneducated, but also the uninterested!!!
When the churches become a governmental target Christian churches to be specific then those right wing voters will wake up. It's the case of if it doesn't effect me directly It's not a threat or a problem.
If you don't want an abortion, don't get one. I just don't understand people who want to control what others do to themselves. If it's of you and it's in you, it's yours.
Exactly. Dead people have more rights than women, as one cannot remove an organ from a corpse for transplant, if that person while alive didnt consent to it.
Same with a fetus, if a woman revokes her consent of the fetus using her body, she has the right to govern her body and have the fetus removed.
Dead people should not have more rights than women, it's beyond asinine
Why are white old Republicans so concerned about a woman's reproductive health? They only defend children in the womb and when they are 18 and can fight in wars, in between they could give a damn.
Freedom of religion also means freedom FROM religion.
100% I’m completely pro individual choice , abortion, weed, cocaine, vaccines, etc
Heard recently that if Men gave birth, you could get an abortion at a walmart while getting a flu shot.
Laws or not this person put their career on the line to leak these documents. Kudos to them for that.
Sen Collins acting surprised about the new conservative judges having lied is super reminiscent of her thinking the president has learned his lesson when he got impeached...
FYI: There's no federal law restricting the leaking of Supreme Court documents. It's simply not addressed in the law. This is much ado about nothing.
It's not illegal, but I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that the reason behind it happening is sketchy A.F...
Lol, I wouldn't be surprised
Not illegal but you dont want someone working at the highest level of government leaking documents, even if they think its ok. Whoever it is should NOT get in trouble but they shouldnt be given access to confidential information going forward.
@@TheUluxian
The reason behind it happening is that a majority of our Supreme Court justices are preparing to overturn fifty years of precedent and strong public opinion to strip the right to bodily autonomy from half our population.
So yeah, pretty sketchy.
@@irishkniferd9837 if there was appropriate transparency then the leaks would have no value (unless there was an effort to hide the truth at some level within the branch).
The republicans talk of secrecy as a necessary component to operate the law, but they tend to be the ones in the books of the lobbyists who also enjoy the benefits of working behind closed doors (while controlling the nature of the bills passed though the government).
The ability to pull quick pro quo's in silence is exponential and making this public only forces people in positions of power to avoid open corruption.
Weird that a corpse has more bodily autonomy than a living woman. It's organs can't be used to save lives without his permission.. Another bodily autonomy fun fact; if my sister needed an emergency blood transfusion, our blood matching, I could not be forced to save her life.
Also weird that women on the left seem to be fine with their safe spaces being violated and their competitive sports being taken away.
Makes you wonder what this Supreme Court would say if a state passed a law requiring every healthy person between 18 and 30 to donate a kidney, as needed. (There would be a lottery, of course, like for jury duty....) Constitution doesn't say they can't do it.
Is...is everything OK with you and your sister? Joking aside, it's such a weird thing in US politics. It's nowhere near as prevalent in the conservative ideologies of political parties in other countries. In fact, it turns people off.
Women in this country cannot be voluntarily sterilized until the age of 25, or until they have 2 children. A male can have a reversible vasectomy at 16.
yeah because once you're dead others shouldn't have the right to decide what happens with your empty meat sack! .....but old men deciding what happens with a female body is totally a-ok!
Thank you for mentioning conservatives' Faustian bargain with Trump, but we need to remember that terrifying numbers of them sincerely love the orange narcissist. That shows you how sick and compromised their souls really are.
I'm so glad I found this channel! Sanity is comforting in insane times.
They don’t love him they just love the clicks like a tik tok teen
Fox 🦊 Owner, and thrice divorced, Rupert Murdoch was awarded a knighthood by the Pope…. Join the dots
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Thanks for addressing such a sensitive topic in a humorous/comical manner. I was brought up to be in the middle on the matter. Rape/incest are Never the will of a benevolent being, therefore those plagued by horrible atrocities against themselves should choose. Not stodgy Supreme Court justices.
"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.”
― Niels Bohr
"SUNLIGHT IS THE BEST DISINFECTANT" - Little Debbie
we Are ARE A REPUBLIC go to Korea try this over there you will be democractly done food and water ? good luck
Agreed, transparency is the key element in providing oversight or basic accountability to any governing body that can control the freedoms of the nation.
Yet like true hypocrites the Republicans are demanding secrecy for themselves but transparency for their opponents.
Also the fox news/republican notion that the staff show their phones and records to be scrutinized, yet they support Trump is withholding documents in contempt of the court is beyond blatant hypocrisy.
W8 didn't you say this on the Colbert clip as well LMAO I watch both too. Keep it up.
Indeed.
It’s egregious that the Supreme Court was doing this behind closed doors. Or that 3 Justices committed perjury. Or that Clarence Thomas did not step down and he should. That’s egregious.
Three? I'm sure you can find footage of all five of them claiming _Roe_ or _Casey_ is practically enshrined in law.
Clarence Thomas shattered the integrity of the Supreme Court long before this leak
I want you to punish these protesters the way you do for the Jan. 6 protestors... They are hitting police officers and this is a FEDERAL BUILDING.
@@joyphillips1821 lmao what are you on about
1. They always conduct business that way and they have for literally centuries. 2. You have no understanding of the law if you think a perjury charge would stick. 3. Clarence Thomas did nothing wrong.
I do so appreciate your stuff! You always manage to make me smile, no matter how bad the news, and I sure do need the smiles, right now. 😒 So, thank you for what you do! ❤❤
NICE ONE Seth! Yes how will they recover from this breach of their PRIVACY?!
The leak is inconsequential and much less important than showing the intentions behind the secrecy
Pipes only leak when there's something flowing through them.
No, but republicans like to say we're dramatic and not focused. Never mind their use of insurrection is just wrong based on it's definition.
There were two options. Discuss the overturning of roe v wade (and the dominionist's plan to continue rolling back twentieth century civil rights progress) or call for a witch hunt and cause a big distraction.
It sounded so close to insubordination. That was probably what they were aiming for.
Perhaps the leak is a ruse to divert attention from (Ginny Thomas? or other behind the scenes debacles like the testimony of Ivanka and Don Jr. etc at the 1/6 hearing? or ……)
They’re upset the privacy of the court was infringed when the decision that was revealed goes against the idea of protected privacy. Very cool and normal.
whoever leaked this should be disbarred. It is insurrection and a threat to our democracy.
They should have seen it coming. The Roe v Wade decision itself was leaked to the press in 1973.
Agree
Overturning Roe v. Wade is just the start, and Republicans also want to go after our other rights to privacy, such as the right to practice birth control.
In fact, it may eventually get so bad that the only form of birth control available will be that men have to look at pictures of justice Thomas's wife, at which point they will lose all desire to have sex.
@@vwgti1985 Always vote it never was as damn-crucial.
Use 'Some More News' and 'Telltale Fireside' to know WHENEVER
a qanon-member-or-any-such-thing Runs for Office. And please oppose
the current Wave of Trans-Hate pushed by Guess-Who.
Absolutely on fire, Seth. One of the best closer looks I have seen!
“Steady Chalupa” had me done! Lol
The supreme court works for the people and should be transparent!!!
The justices who gave the impression they would stand up for abortion rights should be impeached and removed. They never would have been confirmed if they hadn't lied.
Yes they would've been confirmed all the same if they had openly preached they intended to strike down Roe v Wade. You forget republicans controlled the Senate during these confirmations.
70-87%of Americans want legal abortion. How can this court subvert the peoples will and still keep their legitimacy⁉️
All they are doing is turning this back to the states. The states can now determine if they want abortion themselves. That is the way it should be. The federal govt. should not be controlling something thew states should be doing. They should have stated this back when Roe became law.
You are talking about insurrection. A threat to our democracy
You can't impeach them unless you get a Democrat majority un the Senate.
If law clerks have to turn over their phones and personal information, then so should the SC justices and their partners.
Great idea
Yes. Oh, yes.
The law clerks don't have turn over jack sh!t and the FBI knows it. Unless they can come up with a warrant. That would require evidence.
I find the GOP-Issues covered by TH-camr Some more News way more interesting and better exectued than this video here, tbh.
Totally agree. Not only that, Clarence Thomas needs to come clean about his wife's CLEAR involvement in trying to overthrow the legitimate win of Biden. He needs to step down on that one issue alone. What a pig! (Sorry pigs!).
I absolutely love how Luara punctuated 'incumbent' and then has a brain fart looking for the word 'investigation'. Top-notch work, there.
Even without the leaked documents, we knew this was coming when the three conservatives were appointed. Justice Ginsburg had barely passed away and Trump was racing to replace her.
In listing the problems with the justices you missed the bit about 2 of them being, by official assessment, unqualified for the job.
A lot of people forget that part. 😕
@@MaryAnnNytowl Always vote it never was as damn-crucial.
Use 'Some More News' and 'Telltale Fireside' to know WHENEVER a qanon-member-or-any-such-thing Runs for Office. And please oppose
the current Wave of Trans-Hate pushed by Guess-Who.
The thing about leaks is, dry pipes don't leak. There has to be something in them first.
Very clever, ma'am.
Y'all got southern accents, n'est pas?
... did Wally wash his hands 🤔
Alotta poopies on this court…
Deepity noun
an idea or statement that seems to be profound but actually isn't; coined by the philosopher Daniel Dennett
Thank you Seth Myers.
Seth was fantastic today. The funny stuff was secondary to the serious stuff, and he dished the latter fully, comprehensively, and unapologetically. This was the naked Truth with a sauce of Funny mockery. Delicious! Thanks, Seth, it was terrific and JUSTIFIED.
Every person has the right to govern their own body, including their organs and their contents.
If you needed a liver transplant, you could not take part of another's liver, even if that meant you would pass away as a result.
Nobody has permission to use my body without my consent, same rules apply to a fetus. Even of a person is dead, you still cannot take their organs unless they consented to it while they were alive.
Same thing with a pregnancy. If the woman carrying the fetus doesn't consent to be pregnant anymore, she has the right to govern her body and have the fetus removed. The fetus does not get to continue to use the woman's body once she removes consent.
That's it, that's the argument. This isn't about "babies" or religion or adoption. It all boils down to consent and governing one's own body. The right of the pregnant woman supercedes and fetus contained inside her.
❤🖤💙
Yeah, unfortunately, that's exactly what Republicans are taking away: women's control over their own bodies. They have no respect for them hence this is their goal.
Fetus is Latin for 'little one.' It's always meant a living being.
@@johnbrowne3950 Nobody is arguing a fetus isn't a human, thats not the point. A person on a transplant list is a human as well, yet they cannot take an organ from you or I unless we consent.
And a fetus cannot remain in a woman's uterus if she revokes her consent.
@John Again. That isn't the argument. The argument is about consent and governing one's own body.
The person or persons who leaked this is a hero.
And a true patriot at that
Yep. Absolutely.
@@celimardejesus7857 ...and soon he/she will be in jail /prison for leakage.
@@pietrojenkins6901 it's disappointing because the first amendment should protect whistle blowers like this.
@@skillganon606 They're more likely to jail the journalist for protecting their source than the whistle blower themselves
Well done Seth~~!!
“ “Pro-life” Justices “ is like an oxymoron.
Paying $10M a piece to stack the court with traditionalist judges is somehow not an attack on the integrity of the court, but someone telling everyone what the court is doing....heresy
And, as usual with lyin Яepublicans, privacy for them is highly important, but privacy for their opponents is the devil's work.
Vote people. Get mad, organize on that anger, and vote. We make the Senate larger, Manchin’s input becomes nil and filibuster hopefully goes bye bye.
Trump 4ever 🤣
@@tuyenle8107 incel.
Then you need to have Puerto Rico or DC instated as the next state(s) to get more senators. I personally prefer that Manchin and most of the Republican senators be given several kicks to the groin.
@@ferox965 Maybe Gorsuch will help Tuyen Le out.
@@tuyenle8107 👈Dumbass
Perfectly said ❤
The best summary of the past 50 years of effort on the part of the far right to take over scotus, including the former president telling people you have to vote for me because of the supreme Court! Thank you Seth!
Bold of them to assume we had trust left for the system.
And insurrection? Are they just going with whatever "scary word" that is floating near the surface?
They are the same people who have been calling education on trans issues "grooming", so......yes, that's exactly what they do.
No, they want to water the meaning of the word down as much as possible in preparation for the January 6 Hearings. They know they're going to hear that word a bunch & are trying to remove as much meaning from it before it's ascribed to all the biggest names in MAGA.
Projection is their MO.
"No, *you're* a bigoted nationalistic authoritarian goon!"
-Tucker Carlson, probably
Trying to make the word meaningless. For.... reasons
No government employee that deals with laws or lawmaking should have privacy in their work. It needs to be public. They shouldn't be able to fart on the clock without the entire country knowing
So we should allow public opinion to potentially change votes instead of having judges only take into account the law itself? That is fine for representatives as they represent our voice. On judges however, their votes should not be swayed by public opinion. Can you imagine the death threats on the SCOTUS if a draft of Brown vs Board of education decision was released before the vote was final?
I Agree with You American, God Bless You American.
CIA and DOD might have different opinion.
@@gscurd75 so we should let the vast majority of Americans be drowned out by a handful of people? More then 70% of the American populace wants the right to abortions. The fact that this is literally the removal of a right it doesnt fall into the standard operation of the supreme court. Throwing out roe v wade is the first step to stripping all Americans of any right.
That's why we need to prosecute the entire Trump-Kushner crime family. Ivanka was a frequent flyer to China, buying up patents and God knows what else...it was done on our dime, we need to know what that witch was up to...
Is it not against the law to commit perjury? Didn’t the judges who were claiming they wouldn’t go near Roe Vs Wade during their hearings, commit perjury by stating this?
Leaks from the SC are rare but it's most certainly not the first time.
I’m not surprised after what happened to the voting rights act.
This just reaffirms the need for accountability on the court, the hell with lifetime appointments
crazy idea to give these judges lifetime appointments
Looks like some of the older versions of Trivial Pursuit are going to need revisions. A few years ago I was at a friend's place and I actually got the question about which decision was responsible for making legal a woman's right to choose and the answer being Roe v Wade. Not anymore thanks to a shady supreme court and a bunch of horrendous human beings who claim to work for the people but actually couldn't care less what the people who chose them as their representatives actually want. How are they so OK with completely ignoring what most people want. There's the now famous clip (thanks to Amber) of Marjorie Taylor Greene being creepy as all hell saying through a mail slot that AOC needs to come out and talk to the people who pay her salary while she herself is currently being investigated for whether she should be allowed to be on the ballot for not doing what the people who pay her salary want and being a party to a violent insurrection. It's insanity.
Sucha good use of Wally... perfect. Emmy worthy!
Right who are they to have privacy when they don't want others to have it.
I like that Laura Ingraham is calling for the FBI to 1. investigate the leak and 2. By looking through phones. This after Fox said the FBI started the Jan 6 riots and 2. Complaining about the Jan 6 committee subpoenaing phone records as an invasion of privacy
There is literally video evidence of an instigator encouraging people to enter the capitol and people realising he was a fed The FBI clammed up when asked about this.
Not to mention that there are 4500 tips that the FBI received about Justice Kavanaugh during his hearings that the FBI never investigated, including a couple of credible witnesses from college saying he exposed himself to women, etc.
Do you honestly expect anyone at that network to be internally logically consistent?
the US is such a divided country........
Cognitive dissonance is a prerequisite to work there...
Seth- This was priceless!
Here's what everybody should know about the GQP: evil festers. Their opponents might topple them once, but that doesn't mean they'll bow out courteously and take their losses. No, they will retreat to their dungeons to lick their wounds and plot for revenge. Because that's what villains do: they hate and swear revenge until the day they breathe their last.
A Closer Look is always funny and always informative, but this one was masterful. A searing indictment. While I personally *love* the sort of casual, indulgent pieces the show has leaned into since the pandemic, those only make hard-hitting pieces like this stand out all the more. Seth jokes about an Emmy for Corrections but the show should win an Emmy for this segment full stop.
Yep, I agree!
I agree to an extent, though I would say that it's more like this topic has brought out the skills of the writer's room to an extent that was more common in the past but has recently been lacking.
I was in high school and got my gf pregnant. We drove to Jacksonville Fla. and she had an abortion. I didn’t think much about the right my gf had to her body but after the SCOTUS shenanigans recently, I’m mad for women. A vital right has been stolen from them. The SC Justices are going to have blood on their hands!
It takes a pretty substantial lack of self awareness to use your own irresponsibility as a justification for allowing other people to be irresponsible...
Not only that but you don't even seem to understand what you are arguing about. No rights have been "stolen" as you so foolishly put it, the bill has not yet passed and if it does it still doesn't ban abortion. Why is this so hard for leftists to understand...oh right, you aren't able to work out how to use birth control, I should adjust my expectations.
All they are doing is turning this back to the states. The states can now determine if they want abortion themselves. That is the way it should be. The federal govt. should not be controlling something thew states should be doing. They should have stated this back when Roe became law.
They won't have the blood of unborn children on their hands.
@@lawvere Which ones, the women or SC justices?
Sounds like your personal issue. Be more careful
Well done, Seth. Also, so funny Chalupa the horse jokes
Stunning commentary!
I can never understand the absolute obsession with outlawing abortion, by people who couldn't care less about the the disadvantaged nor any other form of fairness.
Right and wrong are different from fairness and equity. Whether or not someone is allowed to commit murder isn’t about fairness. Also, entitlements and rights are not the same thing. Rights are the ability to perform certain activities. Entitlements is I believe I deserve that. There is not an entire entitlement in the bill of rights for a reason. This country was built on the idea to allow people to live, rather than giving them things to live. They are allowing the unborn child to be born, not granting them the privilege to and then giving them things. I went to college for law and finished, but left the field after a year to get into business. Trust me tho, I’m not just full of it. Pls read actual Supreme Court justices decisions and reasonings and not just reduce it to republicans bad.
You clearly have no idea what actually happened.
@@blankface5052 nobody is being allowed to commit murder, because abortions aren't murder.
+ it's not like they care oh-so-much about babies because once the child is born they don't offer any support to the child or mother, they both could die in a ditch and they won't give a damn.
Exactly! The same people who are instantly up in arms at any suggestion that they contribute some of their taxes to funding universal healthcare “because I don’t want to pay for other people’s healthcare” or any other welfare measure, somehow want to fight to the death to force women to bring a child they aren’t physically, emotionally, psychologically or financially equipped to bring into the world?
I don't get it. If you can't force me to give up my tissues, blood and organs when I'm dead to save a living person, how can you force me to use the same tissue, blood and organs to support a possible person?
And all those Republicans refusing the Covid vaccine holding signs that read my body my choice, pretty ironic isn't it.
Because according to the GOP, women aren't really real. We're just boxes around the really real people.
@@marybellefleur Yeah we used to be labelled as not persons according to the law and that is exactly where Republicans would like us to stay.
@@t.dmytryshyn2615
Bingo 🎯
Do you think it's OK to abort children at any age.
7:55 ... Waw the voice is almost like Alexander scorby ...
Truth be told, one of the biggest forms of backlash women can have against this ruling is only being with themselves (self-love), choosing not to be with a man for as long as they wish: at the end of the day, what a woman chooses to do with themselves is none of a man's business, especially when they don't personally know someone and what they've been through 😒
Daily Reminder: "A president isn't a king and the plaintiff isn't the president." - 11/09/2021 D.C. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan
Imma need more than that. You ever heard about context?
And…?🤨
Thank you Auntie!🌹
@@rorychivers8769 Court...what don't you understand?
Daily reminder: You get that quote wrong every single time, Auntie Pha
All young people need to realize that they can put an end to this insanity once and all! Crush the Infamy if the GOP with your vote at the midterms.Millenials you have the numbers!
LOL good luck with that.
The Rethuglikkkan party is anti-American and evil...the kkkult should be illegal.
@@chunk47524 Yeah! If anything will motivate them out of an understandable apathy this is it. The Conservatives have revealed themselves and have crossed the line. They have overplayed their hand. All of the young people should realize that now it is their lifestyle that is being threatened. It will not be short termed.vThis court will sit and make many more similar rulings unless the court is expanded and rebalanced. We have a lot of work to do. It is time for Biden to give up his dream of bipartisanship. That's how he lost the historical opportunity of his presidency. But he has to counterattack like Seth and Colbert are doing.
Millenials aren't exactly young anymore. We need the Zoomers
@@rvoight92 college-educated zoomer here, I didn’t vote in the last election, but next time I’m going big time Republican. Democrats cause insane inflation and blame anyone under the sun. They also care about woke politics at a time when there are far more important things at stake.
What a time to live in...
These justices really need term limits too. Ridiculous to have lifetime appointments 🙄
I've been waiting a while for MeeMaw's return and I was not disappointed. Everything else about this made me sad.
Yep, gettin' to the dark times we are. This show is the best and they're doing an excellent job as always, but much like the pandemic it's just a constant stream of bad news they have to remix and frame comedicly.
Meemaw and Lindsey are probably my favorite of his impressions, along with Mike Lindell. What a depressing day, though.
Blimey they are unhappy that this leaked!!! Anyone would think they didn’t want it to come out until AFTER the midterms?
No, the decision was actually going to come out in June, or early July at the end of the court's session. This really IS a big deal - just not as big as the right is making it. Whoever did this clearly wanted to bring political pressure on the court which is a bad thing.
It's meant to come out now to sway the election. It is meant to get the Dems to the polls. Definitely an election ploy. All they are doing is turning this back to the states. The states can now determine if they want abortion themselves. That is the way it should be. The federal govt. should not be controlling something the states should be doing. They should have stated this back when Roe became law.
@@curtzeek8818
What nonsense - apparently, you know next to nothing. This (if it ends up being the decision) would be out in a few weeks anyway and would affect the election even MORE!
Hey, I have an idea! Let's turn SLAVERY back to the states - because rights don't MATTER! That is what the court is meant to BE for - to protect rights against mob rule, or in this case, minority rule held by political scheming.
@@pdoylemi Well, they were already under political pressure to overturn it. I agree that SCOTUS should be free from political pressure; this coulrt is corrupt and partisan.
@@portfolio91
Agreed. But that does not negate the point. What if say, Gorsuch was open to reversing himself or at least going to a more moderate decision - persuaded by other justices. If he did that NOW, he would be heavily targeted.
Let's ignore poverty, gun violence, political corruption and legislate to control the health care of women.
"Keep his mouth shut" WTF?!?!? OUR court! We have the RIGHT to see what they're doing every step of the way!
Thank you Seth and team for speaking about this in the most basic and clear terms. This isn’t about “when life starts” or any of the other red herrings the Christofascists like to use to cloud the issue. There is no debate. My rights are not negotiable.
Exactly. Take one right from women, is just the start of the rest of women's being taken away. Welcome to the coming Theoracu
God Bless You American.
The only right that's a problem is to have guns. The ability for a couple, or single mother to try to make a informed medical choice? how is that a question. We don't know what changed., health or finances or a zombie invasion are all just as valid. A couple finds out the baby is DOA, someone was laidoff and now they can't in good consousness try to feed 3 mouths while 1 paycheck from being fucked. Any of those things shouldn't a BFD to opt-out.
@@gorkskoal9315 If being below a certain financial standard is reason to kill a baby are you OK with dispatching everyone that is below that standard?
@@thatswhattheyis literally no one is talking about “killing babies.” A fetus is is a parasite, not a child (implies viable life outside of womb).
The host can choose whether it’s the right time to bring a child into the world or not. Either way, it’s none of your business. People with uteruses aren’t incubators.
When will church and state be separate. These Bible thumping judges have put their religious beliefs front and center. I hate other people's beliefs when they push them on the rest of the country. Put these things on our national ballot and let true Americans decide.
Don't worry, sacrificing unborn children on Moloch's altar will not end until Jesus returns. Until then, those who shed innocent blood will be honoured.
WRONG. Abortion is godly, abortion is promoted in the Bible.
You misunderstand what "Separation of Church and State" is all about.
Democracy cannot be based on religion, race, ethnicity or any other such divide. A democracy needs to cater for the welfare of *all* its citizens, and only a secular state can manage that.
@@captainfear2172 I guess I misunderstand it too why don't you educate us
This is so awful that they lied to get their appointments almost like they were just as comparable to others have been fired for their comprised as others who were taken away their appointments.
There's a saying ... "Only in America" but this takes the cake.
Imagine if security had been boosted as quickly at the Capitol on January 6 as it was at the Supreme Court the second this was leaked.
It was.
Imagine if the investigation was as swift as the, Republicans are demanding for this.
The Capitol had the same security as the Oscars.
@@thetruth-hl7ct If the security was the same as the Capitol then the public would have been encouraged into the Senate by security to read the bill themselves.
@@ferrumignis Your comment makes no sense.
alito saying the right to privacy is being overturned and specifically referencing cases that determined sodomy could not be criminalized (which relied on that same right to privacy) shows how serious this is. abortion rights being denied is horrible, but it means they’re on the path to allow more rights being taken away from us too.
Unfortunately it's not going to stop abortions. Just like if they outlaw sodomy it will still occur.
Oh. Now they think they have their own 1/6!🙄🤦🏻♀️
Collins and Murkowski can eat a GIANT bowl of hot metal cheerios.
How f*cking damn dare they try to draw an equivalency between leaking a document and 1/6... Nothing surprises me anymore, but for a brief moment, I was gobsmacked.
I bet you were so excited and happy to see the death and destruction wreaked by your side during the summer of love.
@@ferrumignis No side. Registered Independent voter.
...Now you don't know what the hell to think.
@@McCrapweasel I think you are a very confused person. Do you support women's rights or trans rights, since the two are diametrically opposed?
@@ferrumignis Confused about what, exactly?
@@ferrumignis
Those sets of rights really aren't opposed at all, though I am curious to know what are some places you believe they conflict?
i couldn’t imagine how you would find humor in the horror of the shameless GOP overturning Roe vs. Wade, but by God you did. God Bless you.
F is for Federalism.
Even with biden, weak as he is, AMERICA IS BACK BABY!
God isn’t for murdering unborn babies, so…
Tell me you don't understand the difference between federal and state law without telling me. If you live in a toxic leftist state chances are you will be free to continue satisfying your blood lust on unborn children.
@@dontransue9843 to repeat: do you have any idea how many other freedoms aren't codified in specific terms in the Constitution that would be at risk, after this happens? It wouldn't be pretty. Take travel, for instance. "Show your papers" at every state or even county border, since you don't have the right to travel without reporting it to authorities specifically named in the Constitution. 😄
That could be just the beginning. You aren't specifically allowed to choose where your child(ren) attends school in the Constitution. You aren't specifically allowed to purchase items in privacy that the government might be interested in knowing you own, like alcohol. There's the choice of who you marry that the authorities may not agree with, either. Don't like it? Tough, it's not in the Constitution. 😄
Want those states' rights strengthened so some can outlaw bodily autonomy? That means a state would have the right to control how much ammunition you're allowed to purchase, and forget about crossing state lines with it, as well. It doesn't affect your guns, after all, just the ammo. 😄
You may even need to sign papers to be able to even attempt a pregnancy in a state - and if that state wants to be like states that have draconian abortion bans, they can also make it illegal to cross state lines for an "accidental" pregnancy to be "initiated." Or you may not be allowed to access contraception of any kind, even if married.
You may have certain... bedroom activities curtailed and made illegal, even if you are straight, as many things can be considered "sodomy or other unnatural sexual activity." You may even see blatant bigotry and racism used - legally - to keep people out of living in some areas, going to school at some schools, working in some jobs, or even enjoying recreation in some areas.
Think it's impossible for any of these things to happen? Think again. They are _all_ based on the same _nonspecific_ human rights used to make the original Roe vs Wade decision.
Whoa that was Huckabee?! I completely did not recognize him.
And one judge’s wife was so giddy with glee she couldn’t help herself but to share the news with someone lol 😝
I've never liked the supreme court, no one institution should have that much power without checks and balances.
Trump 4ever 🤣
We have checks and balances. The leak was probably intentional so they can gage public reaction to such a decision. Also, the people are over 50% in favor of a woman's right to choose. Don't underestimate congresses ability to set precedent by checking the power of the court. Congress can amend the constitution thereby overriding a supreme court decision.
There are checks and balances. The president nominates and the congress can impeach.
@@tuyenle8107 incel
Rock Paper Scissors: executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government.
As an abused little girl, my body never belonged to me, it was always someone else's to do with as they please. Now it's law.
If you don’t want a baby inside of you then don’t put one in there. Nobody is forcing anyone to be pregnant.
@@thatswhattheyis rape? Would you be open to abortion if it was from rape? Just speaking from experience.
@@RooftopRecipes Should more people have to die because someone was raped? Two wrongs don’t make a right.
@@thatswhattheyis Have you heard about rape? Incest? Pregnancies that risk the mother’s life?
@@thatswhattheyis Should a person’s mental and physical health suffer for the duration of pregnancy and add to a raped woman’s sense of powerlessness and sense of being violated?
Can we please change the donation option to the ACLU so that we can actually contribute to prevention of more under served and under fed families?
They are really sick people e we need to vote and get these people out before it is too late GOD help us