{"id":1076425,"date":"2021-12-02T11:44:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T16:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1076425"},"modified":"2021-12-02T11:44:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T16:44:32","slug":"cnn-legal-expert-accuses-justices-barrett-and-kavanaugh-of-flawed-arguments-claims-no-one-wants-a-neutral-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-legal-expert-accuses-justices-barrett-and-kavanaugh-of-flawed-arguments-claims-no-one-wants-a-neutral-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN \u2018Legal Expert\u2019 Accuses Justices Barrett And Kavanaugh Of \u2018Flawed\u2019 Arguments, Claims No One Wants A Neutral Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-legal-expert-accuses-justices-barrett-and-kavanaugh-of-flawed-arguments-claims-no-one-wants-a-neutral-supreme-court%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1076425&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>CNN legal analyst Laura Coates claimed Wednesday evening that no one actually wanted the Supreme Court to be \u201cneutral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coates joined CNN anchor Don Lemon and senior political analyst Nia Malika Henderson to discuss the Supreme Court\u2019s oral arguments in what could be the next landmark abortion case \u2014 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/supreme-court-hears-mississippi-abortion-case-arguments-what-to-know\/\">Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/a><\/em> \u2014 which addresses a Mississippi state ban on all abortions after 15 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon began the conversation with a discussion about physical access to abortion, claiming that a number of states would ban abortions altogether if the court was to overturn previous landmark decisions <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> and <em>Planned Parenthood v. Casey<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to put up this map, Laura. If the court was to reverse Roe v. Wade, 26 states are certain, are likely to ban abortion almost immediately. Take Louisiana as an example. The nearest clinic for three in five women would be in Illinois. And for the rest of the women, it would be Kansas or North Carolina,\u201d Lemon said, asking Coates who would be most likely to feel the impact of such a move.<\/p>\n<p>Coates argued that the disparate impact would be felt primarily by those who could not afford to travel in order to obtain medical care \u2014 and who could least afford to remain pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople who do not have the resources to do it. It will fall disparately on women of color and people of color in general who are more likely to fall in that category. This is not to suggest \u2014 and I want to be very clear \u2014 whenever I heard this argument be made that abortion restriction also overwhelmingly impact women of color and black women, it\u2019s not to suggest and nor should anyone suggest that only black women or women of color are having abortions. This is a very universalized experience for women,\u201d Coates replied.<\/p>\n<p>Coates went on to argue against <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/justice-amy-coney-barrett-brings-up-adoption-safe-haven-laws-during-mississippi-abortion-case-arguments\/\">Justice Amy Coney Barrett\u2019s line of questioning<\/a> in which she said that safe haven laws would allow women to give up their responsibilities as a parent, saying it was not the same thing as being able to terminate a pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a fundamental misconception of what is being talked about, the idea you\u2019re going to say as long as you can terminate parental rights and put your child up for adoption, that is the same thing as being able to have the choice and agency to terminate one\u2019s pregnancy is so flawed,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo is <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/justice-kavanaugh-at-abortion-case-arguments-why-should-this-court-be-the-arbiter-rather-than-congress-states-the-people\/\">Justice Kavanaugh\u2019s thought<\/a> here, Don, where he suggests that maybe the Supreme Court just ought to be neutral. Well, \u2018I want a Supreme Court that\u2019s neutral,\u2019 said no one ever,\u201d Coates added. \u201cThe whole role of the judicial nine is to be able to be decisive and make decisions where the lower courts particularly have conflict. And in Mississippi, there has been no conflict. Courts have said, the lower courts have said it\u2019s unconstitutional. So by virtue of even taking this case, Don, you already see the leanings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lemon agreed, saying that the argument should be about resources and who had access to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt affects women. It affects women,\u201d Coates repeated. \u201cIt affects women, and women ought the have the same rights as men. No one is curtailing the use of vasectomies. No one is talking about what men are able to do. So just to put it in the language of how it only will impact one race or another, it impacts the gender that is women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN legal analyst Laura Coates claimed Wednesday evening that no one actually wanted the Supreme Court to be \u201cneutral.\u201dCoates joined CNN anchor Don Lemon and senior political analyst Nia Malika Henderson to discuss the Supreme Court\u2019s oral arguments in what could be the next landmark abortion case \u2014 Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization \u2014 which addresses a Mississippi state ban on all abortions after 15 weeks.Lemon began the conversation with a discussion about physical access to abortion, claiming that a number of states would ban abortions altogether if the court was to overturn previous landmark decisions Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.\u201cI want to put up this map, Laura. If the court was to reverse Roe v. Wade, 26 states are certain, are likely to ban abortion almost immediately. Take Louisiana as an example. The nearest clinic for three in five women would be in Illinois. And for the rest of the women, it would be Kansas or North Carolina,\u201d Lemon said, asking Coates who would be most likely to feel the impact of such a move.Coates argued that the disparate impact would be felt primarily by those who could not afford to travel in order to obtain medical care \u2014 and who could least afford to remain pregnant.\u201cPeople who do not have the resources to do it. It will fall disparately on women of color and people of color in general who are more likely to fall in that category. This is not to suggest \u2014 and I want to be very clear \u2014 whenever I heard this argument be made that abortion restriction also overwhelmingly impact women of color and black women, it\u2019s not to suggest and nor should anyone suggest that only black women or women of color are having abortions. This is a very universalized experience for women,\u201d Coates replied.Coates went on to argue against Justice Amy Coney Barrett\u2019s line of questioning in which she said that safe haven laws would allow women to give up their responsibilities as a parent, saying it was not the same thing as being able to terminate a pregnancy.\u201cIt\u2019s a fundamental misconception of what is being talked about, the idea you\u2019re going to say as long as you can terminate parental rights and put your child up for adoption, that is the same thing as being able to have the choice and agency to terminate one\u2019s pregnancy is so flawed,\u201d she continued.\u201cSo is Justice Kavanaugh\u2019s thought here, Don, where he suggests that maybe the Supreme Court just ought to be neutral. Well, \u2018I want a Supreme Court that\u2019s neutral,\u2019 said no one ever,\u201d Coates added. \u201cThe whole role of the judicial nine is to be able to be decisive and make decisions where the lower courts particularly have conflict. And in Mississippi, there has been no conflict. Courts have said, the lower courts have said it\u2019s unconstitutional. So by virtue of even taking this case, Don, you already see the leanings.\u201dLemon agreed, saying that the argument should be about resources and who had access to them.\u201cIt affects women. It affects women,\u201d Coates repeated. \u201cIt affects women, and women ought the have the same rights as men. No one is curtailing the use of vasectomies. No one is talking about what men are able to do. So just to put it in the language of how it only will impact one race or another, it impacts the gender that is women.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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