

Reach out with tips to today’s host at and also my colleagues Michael Stratford ( ) and Bianca Quilantan ( ). Among Republicans in the most competitive Senate election contests, reaction to the pending Roe decision has been muted, marked by statements in support of overturning landmark ruling, and great caution to avoid placing abortion at the center of their campaigns.

Supporters of views that might have once occupied the fringe of political thought, Black said in an interview, may look at the decision and conclude, “There’s five guys and girls who are fully on our team now - so let’s go for it.” “It is creating the perception that longstanding doctrines, particularly ones that the right doesn’t like, are open to be overturned,” Derek Black, an education and civil rights expert at the University of South Carolina School of Law, said of the draft written by Justice Samuel Alito. That doesn’t mean conservative justices wouldn’t have sympathy for Abbott’s arguments, or other challenges, if they made it onto the court’s docket. Here’s the thing: Legal experts say there are no hidden clues in the abortion decision draft that suggest the court next wants to scrap Brown, Plyler or other school-influencing precedents. “Education, it seems in many places, is under attack.”

“ With regard to education, it’s really important that parents and educators and students pay close attention, more than ever before, because they can have implications in the classroom,” Cardona said to your host about the court’s draft decision. President Joe Biden has expressed worry about the pending ruling’s broader implications, asserting the draft suggests that “every other decision relating to the notion of privacy is thrown into question.” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona tells us he’s “certainly” concerned about the potential impact on schools, too. Board!” tweeted Peter Brimelow, a former National Review writer and founder of VDARE, an organization and media outlet labeled as a white nationalist hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Others claim to have even bigger ideas: “Next stop Brown vs. Doe, a 40-year-old precedent protecting the right of undocumented children to receive a public education. Greg Abbott, a Republican, told a conservative radio outlet and reporters last week that he sees an opening to overturn Plyler v. Wade abortion decision has some conservatives thinking it’s now time to dismantle pillars of federal education law. HAMMER OF JUSTICE - The Supreme Court’s draft majority opinion to strike down the landmark Roe v. People protesting outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday in response to the leaked decision indicating that the justices could repeal abortion rights.
