{"id":104771,"date":"2022-11-19T16:04:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T16:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=104771"},"modified":"2022-11-19T16:04:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T16:04:29","slug":"ga-judge-roasts-scotus-abortion-decision-saying-only-change-was-makeup-of-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=104771","title":{"rendered":"GA Judge Roasts SCOTUS Abortion Decision Saying Only Change Was Makeup of Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2022\/11\/georgia-six-week-abortion-ban-blocked-alito.html\" target=\"_blank\">Slate<\/a>: &#8220;The void ab initio doctrine has obvious application in\u00a0<em>SisterSong<\/em>. As McBurney explained, \u201cThe proper legal milieu in which to assess the LIFE Act\u2019s constitutionality is not our current post-<em>Roe<\/em>\u00a0<em>Dobbsian<\/em>\u00a0era but rather the legal environment that existed\u201d when it was enacted. \u201cAt that time\u2014the spring of 2019\u2014everywhere in America, including Georgia, it was unequivocally unconstitutional\u201d to outlaw pre-viability abortions. That means that the LIFE Act \u201cdid not become the law of Georgia when it was enacted and it is not the law of Georgia now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In defending the ban, Georgia lawyers deployed an almost metaphysical argument to get around this problem: They argued that \u201cthere was&nbsp;<em>never<\/em>&nbsp;a federal constitutional right to abortion,\u201d because&nbsp;<em>Roe&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>Casey&nbsp;<\/em>were always wrong. In their view, the LIFE Act was not void when it passed, but rather the victim of a mistaken and now-abandoned line of Supreme Court precedent\u2014one that, according to the absurd logic of their argument, never held the&nbsp;<em>true&nbsp;<\/em>force of law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was this claim that prompted McBurney to explain, in cynical and blistering terms, why Georgia\u2019s theory is mistaken. For 50 years, he wrote, the Supreme Court recognized a right to abortion. \u201cThose prior pronouncements carried no lesser effect and were entitled to no less deference in Georgia or anywhere else in the Republic than that which we all must afford the\u00a0<em>Dobbs<\/em>\u00a0decision.\u201d But\u00a0<em>Dobbs\u00a0<\/em>does not retroactively revoke the force or legitimacy of the decisions it overruled. \u201c<em>Dobbs<\/em>\u2019 authority flows not from some mystical higher wisdom,\u201d McBurney wrote, \u201cbut instead basic math.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate: &#8220;The void ab initio doctrine has obvious application in\u00a0SisterSong. As McBurney explained, \u201cThe proper legal milieu in which to assess the LIFE Act\u2019s constitutionality is not our current post-Roe\u00a0Dobbsian\u00a0era but rather the legal environment that existed\u201d when it was enacted. \u201cAt that time\u2014the spring of 2019\u2014everywhere in America, including Georgia, it was unequivocally unconstitutional\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104772,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104771\/revisions\/104772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}