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Ending Roe probably was being held back to use as an emergency lever to keep Republicans from winning a supermajority.
BUT it may backfire.
Reason is the country is actually almost exactly 50/50 split on abortion, but conservatives say it's 60% pro-choice, centrists says 70%, democrats say 80% pro-choice, and far left says 90% of the country are pro-choice (or thereabouts).
This is the power of media, but like with "Don't Slay Gay" the unintended effect is they've convinced themselves that the country agrees with them when it doesn't. They make it an issue and it doesn't turn out how they imagined it would.
This feels like an unforced error. Would have been better to try and ride the outrage train for five months instead of seven. I think someone got impatient.
One of Sotomayor's clerks has history with the author of the Politico article that published the leak.
Unforced error is right. This would've been prime riot cycle material coming out at the end of session in June, but it's too early for peak impact to prime voters for "vote blue to make it all stop". Either they try to keep up the fervor for two extra months (at which point voters may vote angry mustache man to make it all stop) or they let things peter out naturally, and the left loses any momentum gain.
Yeah, someone was willing to nuke their career because they thought that they were going to seriously lose.
This was a hail mary throw from the leaker. And for fucks sake, the leaker was a PAJEET. What is with these left wing Indians anyway?
Too early. The initial shock and awe effect of the ruling itself will be overshadowed by the summer of rioting it will provoke. They lose more than they gain.
Virginia.