45th President Donald Trump weighed in on the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and said the credit should go to God rather than man.
Today a conservative majority on the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in a 5-4 decision, with John Roberts offering a separate opinion that agreed with the premise of his conservative colleagues but would have stopped short of overturning the precedent, leading some to report it as a 6-3 decision.
Three of the justices who voted to strike the decades old case law, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, were appointed to the high court by Trump, and Fox News asked the former president whether he felt he should receive credit for today’s landmark decision.
“God made the decision,” Trump told the cable news network in reply.
“This is following the Constitution, and giving rights back when they should have been given long ago,” Trump told the network. “This brings everything back to the states where it has always belonged.”
The 45th president stressed, “I think, in the end, this is something that will work out for everybody.”
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While Trump may not be looking for credit, he is receiving it from his political enemies – including CNN.
“Donald Trump’s lasting legacy will now be the overturning of Roe v. Wade,” CNN argues in a headline featured in its political section.
The left wing cable network claims that Trump’s plan to overturn Roe began in May of 2016, when Trump promised to appoint conservatives to the high court if elected president. It came to fruition at the end of his first term, the left wing outlet argues, when Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed by the Senate in a partisan, 52-48 vote.
Justice Samuel Alito stressed the constitutionality of Roe in his majority opinion.
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Alito wrote. “The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely—the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
In his concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas argued that the Due Process Clause, which Roe is based upon, does not “forbid the government to infringe certain ‘fundamental’ liberty interests.” This may open the door for the court to review other major rulings.
As Valiant News reported, “These include Griswold v. Connecticut, the right for married people to obtain contraceptives, Lawrence v. Texas, which protects homosexual relationships, and Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalised gay marriage across the country.”
