The Supreme Court’s Conservative Goon Squad Seems Poised to Destroy Roe v. Wade

In October 2020, following four days of hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, would-be Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett provided a series of answers to questions various lawmakers still had, and 13 months later, only one of them really sticks out in the mind. Specifically, we are still thinking about the one in which Barrett claimed she couldn’t “offer an opinion” on “hypotheticals,” in response to the question: “Under an originalist theory of interpretation, would there be any constitutional problem with a state making abortion a capital crime, thus subjecting women who get abortions to the death penalty?” In… Read Full Article