On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris attacked the Supreme Court Justices for overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that mandated states to allow abortion, saying the ruling is causing “suffering.”
“I think this is an activist court,” Harris told NBC anchor Chuck Todd in an interview that will air fully on Sunday.
“We had an established right for almost half a century, which is the right of women to make decisions about their own body as an extension of what we have decided to be, the privacy rights to which all people are entitled. And this court took that constitutional right away,” she said. “And we are suffering as a nation because of it.”
Harris added that the ruling in that overturned Roe “causes me great concern about the integrity of the court overall.”
“My life was inspired by people like Thurgood Marshall, the work on that court of [Chief Justice] Earl Warren, to bring a unanimous court to pass Brown v. Board of Education,” Harris said, referencing the Supreme Court decision that correctly reversed almost a half century of precedent by overturning Plessy v. Ferguson.
A draft of the Supreme Court’s majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked to Politico in May. In the draft, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that “Roe and Casey must be overruled…. Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.”
After the leak, leftist protestors attempted intimidate the justices into changing their votes and there was an alleged assassination attempt on Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
“Roughly 100 protesters appeared outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house, where they carried signs and chanted slogans before walking a half-mile to Chief Justice John Roberts’s home, then back to Kavanaugh’s home, where police ordered them to leave the area,” The Washington Examiner reported.
The armed man who allegedly attempted to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh told an FBI agent that he was planning on killing Kavanaugh and then committing suicide. According to The Washington Examiner, the FBI agent said that the man told “the detective that he was upset about the leak of a recent Supreme Court draft decision regarding the right to abortion as well as the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. [The man] indicated that the Justice that he intended to kill would side with Second Amendment decisions that would loosen gun control laws.”
Late last year, as the Supreme Court was preparing to hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, which was the case that resulted in Roe being overturned, Democrat Senator Jeanne Shaheen (NH) threatened a “revolution” if the Supreme Court overturned Roe.
“This infringement on women’s rights, on our privacy, on the attempt to have state control of our personal health, really is what we would see in an authoritarian state,” Shaheen said. “It’s not what we would expect in New Hampshire. I think if you want to see a revolution, go ahead, outlaw Roe v. Wade and see what the response is of the public, particularly young people. Because I think that will not be acceptable to young women or young men.”
.@SenatorShaheen on new abortion restrictions going into effect in N.H. & the upcoming Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case: "I think if you want to see a revolution, go ahead, outlaw Roe v. Wade and see what the response is…" #NHPolitics #WMUR pic.twitter.com/O7weoVuOSk
— Adam Sexton (@AdamSextonWMUR) November 29, 2021
