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Isn’t it interesting that Clarence was a the “person” to write the decision on Roe? Now no matter what information the committee brings to light about Ginni’s involvement, the conservatives will always hold him up as a God.

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Gail Christine referred to the timing. I am wondering if it the SCOTUS decision was meant to deflect from the January 6 Committee hearings. So then the January 6 Committee fired back with the Hutchinson hearing.

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B-I-N-G-O.

And Bingo was his name-o.

Salud, Barbara. 🗽

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I think the timing was very deliberate.

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How so? Please explain. Roe v Wade and January 6 Committee?

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I share your question, Barbara. Leading up to this everyone knew that the Dobbs decision (along with Bruen, Kennedy, Torres, etc.) would be delivered in late June or possibly very early July because that's when the Court announces its decisions. So while I personally doubt it, the J6 Committee could have considered its timing with respect to that of the Court, but the opposite is vanishingly unlikely.

Also FWIW Alito, not Thomas, wrote the majority opinion in Dobbs. Thomas joined that opinion and wrote a concurring opinion of his own in which he repeated his stance that "substantive due process" has no constitutional basis, arguing that the Court should reconsider Griswold, Lawrence and Obergefell. So while his and his spouse's roles in fomenting sedition are execrable, they seem to me separate from his longstanding "originalist" assaults on constitutional jurisprudence.

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Am I correct in understanding that it's the Chief Justice to whom he assigns writing the majority opinion?

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If he is in the majority. Otherwise (as in the case of Dobbs) it is the most senior justice in the majority, who can keep it for him--(and hopefully someday her-)--self or pass it off to another justice in the majority. I believe it was Alito because Thomas chose to concur in the judgment but argue that there was a "more fundamental reason" why Roe was wrongly decided--his long-standing objections to the notion of substantive due process. Once he had the opportunity, no way Alito was passing this off to someone else; he's been slavering for the chance for some time.

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And the “stench” smell much worse than before.

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more akin to devil worship

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