And we already have a lot
of reaction coming in.
We're expecting to hear from the
President at this hour as well, Jason.
That's right now, lots to
pull apart right now, Chris.
But first the latest on this
ruling from ABC's Justin Finch.
Real time reaction to the high Court's
decision overturning Roe V Wade striking
down the constitutional right to abortion,
leaving that decision for states to decide,
stepped up security and barricades
set up around the core complex where
crowds gathered for the opinion.
Abortion has been a constitutional
right for nearly five decades,
but with a 63 Conservative
majority on the court.
Abortion rights supporters have feared
it would only be a matter of time.
Before Roe V.
Wade was overturned according to a leaked
Supreme Court draft opinion obtained
by Politico in May and confirmed as
authentic by Chief Justice John Roberts.
A majority of justices voted
to end federal protections for
abortions and let states make their
own abortion laws instead.
Justice Samuel Alito,
writing for the majority in the draft
stating that row was wrongly decided.
Abortion rights supporters
immediately expressing alarm
this morning. The Radical Supreme Court
is eviscerating Americans rights and
endangering their health and safety
thousands took to the streets to
protest as soon as the leak happened,
some even demonstrating outside the
homes of conservative justices.
26 states were poised to quickly
moved to severely restrict access
to abortion or ban it outright.
13 have already passed so-called
trigger laws that would ban the
procedure once Roe is struck down.
The goal of this is to protect the child
the the unborn child and now a number
of Democrat LED states are expanding.
Abortion rights access,
making it easier for women to travel
to those states for the procedure at
the Supreme Court I'm Justin Finch.
ABC News, Washington. So
this decision coming down less than
two hours ago, Chris and there's lots
to digest and put this together.
So let's take a closer look at where
the justices came down on this issue.
Yes, this was a six to three decision
in the majority Roberts, Thomas,
Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh Barrett,
the Conservative judges in the dissent,
Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan, and Jason.
We were kind of expecting this after
the leak last month, and it seems
that it really held true to form.
There was speculation that whoever
leaked it may have been trying to
influences influence the justices,
but it looks like.
Whatever influence they were hoping to
put upon the justice didn't happen,
at least not yet.
But yeah, the the the leaked draft
that came out in May last month.
Chris, it looks a lot like we were
told this 213 page decision that came
down today about 9:10 this morning.
Joining us now is University of North
Texas political science professor,
Doctor Kimmy King, Doctor King.
It is good to see you again.
We always appreciate you taking our
call first reaction to this here.
Today everyone talked about 1973
being a landmark decision but today.
Is another one of those landmark decisions.
Yeah, it really is in so many ways
and it has far reaching consequences
because of the discussion that the
Court has about the role of starry
decisis and which is resolving how
cases are decided and when some kind
of precedent has been established,
and so that's going to be one of the
more significant legal issues that you're
going to hear people talking about.
I've done number of other questions here too.
There's obviously a six to three
Super majority President Trump able to
put 3 justices on the Supreme Court,
giving justices on the right.
Obviously a super majority here able to,
you know, decide what they want
to decide what else, if anything,
do you expect that the Super majority
of conservatives might take up next?
If indeed the case rises to them?
So it's interesting because Thomas and
his concurring opinion raises this
issue about substantive due process.
These kind of core rights that you have,
and one of the things that the opinion,
the implications of the opinion today,
is that some of those.
I'm sorry, go ahead,
you're good, you're good.
I'm so sorry and the the role
that these substantive you know
the substantive due process
has in terms of other rights,
LGBTQ rights, the right to privacy,
even the original decision
on that was Griswold V.
Connecticut, allowing married
couples to get birth control.
So the decision could
potentially be far reaching,
although it the court does have
language in the majority opinion,
which seems to indicate we're
only looking at abortion now.
The other thing that that people have
talked about for so long is how this
might impact the November election.
This is a huge day for conservatives.
For evangelicals.
For Republicans who have been trying to
get this overturned since the early 1980s,
when the GOP really made this a a key
tenet of their platform party platform.
But Democrats, of course never
thought this day would come.
I'm I'm curious. Moving forward here.
How do you expect this is going to impact
the November election here in Texas?
Because the governor's race is a big one.
We're watching,
so is Lieutenant governor's race.
Is this going to demoralize the left or
energize the right or just the opposite?
I think it's going to do everything,
but you have to remember that it's
all swirling around in the context
of the fact that earlier this week,
the Supreme Court, you know,
made it easier to get guns today made
it harder if not impossible to get an
abortion in a majority of the states.
Coupled with the fact that you know,
we also have to remember.
The bottom line is that fundamentally
people vote on the economy and right now
the economy is in the tank and it'll
be interesting to see whether or not
Democrats vote with their pocketbook.
Or whether they vote on more
substantive rights like these.
Yeah, of course, inflation is likely to
be the key thing I do want to ask you.
One other question here too,
though moving forward the the
Court overturning what what was a
landmark decision with this new
landmark ruling that came out.
Now what do you expect this court
to to look like in the future,
to to to feel like and and the public
perception of the Court as well?
I'm curious what you think about that,
so I think you're going to
continue to see this kind of fur.
Around the justices.
Remember that we had to put
provisions in place to protect
the justices at their homes,
and you also have to remember that
you know moving forward one of the
concerns about the majority opinion
is that it undermines this idea
of a fundamental freedom and what
is a fundamental liberty right?
Saying that when government
wants to regulate some of these
rights like LGBTQ rights,
or you know the abortion, right?
They need to only show a lower
threshold for when they want to.
You all say interfere with,
for example,
your privacy rights and so that's
going to be what you're going to
have to watch for for upcoming cases.
As well, Doctor King,
we always appreciate your insight.
Thank you for joining us.