“LGBTQ+ people have every reason to believe that our rights to sexual freedom, marriage, and general bodily autonomy are up for judicial debate. As of this week, those votes remain unchanged, according to Politico’s source. It’s unclear how the Bush-appointed justice John Roberts will vote.
Democrat-appointed justices, including Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, are reportedly working on at least one dissent. The arguments behind the 98-page opinion are essentially taken straight from the longtime conservative Christian playbook against Roe, including that the court’s opinion was “egregiously wrong and deeply damaging,” that is is a shining example of judicial overreach, and that it lacks “grounding in the constitutional text, history, or precedent.” According to a Politico source, four other Republican-appointed justices - Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett - voted with Alito following oral arguments in December. Casey, that established and reaffirmed the constitutional right to abortion, per a leaked draft of a majority opinion written by Justice Alito and obtained by Politico. The Supreme Court appears poised to overturn two landmark decisions, 1973’s Roe v.
