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As TNRs Matt Ford points out, Brett Kavanaugh, in his concurrence, emphasized that Dobbs did not threaten the courts precedents on contraception, same-sex marriage, or similar issues. He also said that states could not ban women from traveling to other states to obtain abortions. Should you take the conservative justices at their word when they make such commitments? I invite you to recall that just this week, their decision in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District rested on an obvious lie. Besides all that, there is Clarence Thomass own concurring opinion to consider, which does in fact set the stage to undo the aforementioned precedents. While its being sold as an outlier among the courts conservatives, the seemingly far-out opinions that Thomas expresses on one day have a funny way of becoming the majority opinion not long afterward, Matt notes.

Republicans, of course, hardly need the permission of the Supreme Court justices to carry out such aims. As The Washington Posts Caroline Kitchener reported this week, anti-abortion activists and GOP lawmakers have begun developing their strategy for a national abortion ban. This is no surprise: As I noted in December, the Republican Party is a slave to purity tests. There is no moderating force to be found anywhere in its ranks; only a loud clamoring from its donors and leaders to push further. Lest you imagine there is a place for moderate Republicans, lets recall the recent television ad put forth by Eric Greitens, the controversial Republican front-runner for Missouris Senate seat, in which he led a squad of armed men on a hunt to kill RINOs, or Republicans in name only. Thats how this party views moderate squishes nowas worthy of extinction.

Its not clear that Democrats have woken up to what the GOP has become. The Biden administration still seems to think the Republican Partys fever might break. On Wednesday, Biden reportedly reached a deal with Senator Mitch McConnell agreeing to support the nomination of an anti-abortion judge to the federal bench. (The timing is just exquisite.) Sizable majorities of normal Americans, however, both oppose the Supreme Courts decision to gut Roe and are worried about what rights might be stripped next. No one should dissuade these people of their fears. Its in moments like this that people, concerned about looming disasters, often get treated by media elites as alarmistsChicken Littles squawking about doom in the sky. Have you read the news lately? The sky has fallen; the next disaster is on its way.

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