Overturning Roe: It’s Alito’s Court Now

Thirty Years Ago Roe v. Wade was Nearly Overturned— But Conservative Justices At the Time Thought Alito’s Stance Too Extreme. Not Today.

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That Was Then. This is Now.

Three decades ago, a conservative court flirted with overturning Roe v. Wade. Oddly, the man who authored the current Dobbs v. Jackson case may have been the reason they did not.

With its 5–4 ruling ending the 49-year-old precedent of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme has terminated a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion. Chief Justice Roberts, who voted with the liberal minority not to overturn Roe, was once the center of the Court. Not anymore.

That now belongs to the man who wrote the majority opinion in Dobbs: Justice Samuel Alito.

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