After two years of violent attacks on American liberties and the Constitution under the pretext of the “pandemic response,” breaking long-standing ethical norms and procedures of the nation’s top court does not seem like a big deal to leftists. A leaked draft majority opinion on the Supreme Court’s decision that overturns the purported constitutional right to abortion is already paying off and giving the Democratic Party something to run on this fall besides President Biden’s catastrophic record.
While many on the Left were outraged and frustrated by the Politico report on the draft that the Court recognized as authentic, the more pragmatic wing of the camp saw it as an opportunity to divert voters’ attention away from the economy, which was “built back better” to the point of looming food shortages, among other Biden’s “achievements.”
“2022 IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION of OUR LIFETIME!” shouted Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison on Twitter, while warning voters that “attacking fundamental freedoms — a woman’s right to choose” is only a step in a lengthy process of Republicans “ravaging our rights.”
As reported by CNBC, “Hours after the draft was leaked, the Democratic National Committee, the governing body for the party, sent out a text message to potential donors highlighting the document.”
The message reportedly reads, “News shows SCOTUS is set to overturn Roe. We must hold the GOP accountable for their attacks. Rush $15 to the DNC.” The DNC has also launched ads on its Facebook page calling on people to donate to help preserve abortion “rights,” per the report.
On Tuesday, President Biden released a statement saying that his administration is strongly supporting women’s “right” to abort their children, and called on the people to elect “pro-choice” officials in the upcoming mid-term elections.
So did his former boss, Barack Obama, in an ostentatious statement posted on Twitter.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) said in its own statement that “the stakes of protecting and expanding our Democratic Senate Majority that will fight to protect women’s health care [have] never been higher.”
Speaking at a ritzy gala organized by pro-abortion EMILY List on Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris urged Americans to “link arms in this fight” against “those Republicans leaders who are trying to weaponize the use of the law against women” and elect more pro-abortion legislators this November.
Democrats are also trying to invoke the boogeyman of patriarchy and remind American women that they are actually oppressed. According to The Hill, Democratic strategist Christy Setzer said, “It’s on. It’s time to get angry. It’s time to organize but mostly it’s time to tell a coherent story about what Republicans are doing to everyone that is not a straight, white Christian male in this country.” Setzer added that if the Democrats decide to make this their top message, they could change the trajectory of the elections.
Another Democratic strategist cited by the outlet, Karen Finney, called the leak a “shock to the system people needed” and “a wake-up call for women across America to understand what’s at stake.”
And it looks like this strategy is bearing fruit.
NARAL Pro-Choice America, a pro-abortion advocacy group, reported a 1,403-percent increase in donations since Politico published the SCOTUS draft on Monday night.
ActBlue, the nonprofit tech company that facilitates fundraising for left-wing groups and the Democratic Party, stated that donors had given $12 million in a little over 24 hours.
Numerous pro-abortion Democratic lawmakers used the leaked draft as an opportunity to “fundraise like crazy,” as Insider put it. The report added that “on the Republican side, Supreme Court-themed fundraising was comparatively muted, although several conservative candidates and committees did ask for cash.”
In the meantime, Chief Justice John Roberts called the leak a “betrayal” and ordered an investigation into this stunning breach of the secrecy surrounding the Supreme Court deliberations.
The SCOTUSblog lamented that “This leak is the gravest, most unforgivable sin” and destroys trust among the justices and the staff.
GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell slammed the leak as “an attack on the independence of the Supreme Court” and “yet another escalation in the radical left’s ongoing campaign to bully and intimidate federal judges and substitute mob rule for the rule of law.”
“Progressive” public figures, however, cheered for another tradition — and possibly a law — being broken in what they perceived would work to their political favor.
As reported by the Daily Caller, “Several prominent liberals took to social media to praise the anonymous individual” who leaked the draft.
Among others, Ian Millhiser, a senior correspondent at Vox, wrote, “Seriously, shout out to whoever the hero was within the Supreme Court who said ‘f*ck it! Let’s burn this place down.’”
As the old saying goes, “Desperate times call for desperate measures.” Therefore, it comes as no surprise that the party that faces devastating losses in the November midterms is trying to utilize whatever straw of hope they can to rally their dejected supporters around a new flag.
In other words, it looks like Democrats are using street magicians’ favorite trick — misdirection — and badly want voters to forget about the staggering inflation, corruption scandals, unprecedented border crisis, Covid mandates, and foreign-policy failures and focus on the issue of abortion instead.
