{"id":1464212,"date":"2022-05-04T17:29:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T21:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1464212"},"modified":"2022-05-04T17:29:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T21:29:55","slug":"psaki-dodges-question-asking-if-white-house-condemns-scotus-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-dodges-question-asking-if-white-house-condemns-scotus-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Dodges Question Asking If White House Condemns SCOTUS Leak"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fpsaki-dodges-question-asking-if-white-house-condemns-scotus-leak%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=1464212&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki dodged a reporter\u2019s question Tuesday on whether White House condemns the leak of a Supreme Court draft majority opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes the White House condemn, explicitly condemn this leak or is seeing this draft been seen as welcome by some here?\u201d a reporter asked at Tuesday\u2019s press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think we have a particular view on that other than to say that we certainly note the unprecedented nature of it,\u201d Psaki replied. \u201cWhat we are mindful of, and I spoke with the president about exactly this question yesterday, and obviously it\u2019s up to the Department of Justice to determine what, if any, action they will take, and I know obviously there have been calls for that by some Republicans but also members of the Supreme Court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added the White House is focused on the content within the Supreme Court draft opinion suggesting an overturn of Roe v. Wade, which could return the decision on rights of abortions back to the states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we have heard a number of raised concerns about the leak, our focus is on highlighting what the content in there would put at risk for women across the country \u2026 I would note that many Republicans have wanted to talk about that and not about whether they support the protection of a woman\u2019s right to choose, a woman\u2019s right to make decisions with her doctor about her health care, maybe not a surprise given that by more than a 2 to 1 margin, American want the Supreme Court to support abortion rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The reporter then asked if the White House would accept a decision to overturn Roe v. Wade as legitimate and encourage Americans to also support such a ruling if it occurred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t speak for what actions could be possible on the legal front, I would point you to the Department of Justice on that,\u201d she said. \u201cBut, what I can tell you will happen is \u2014 and this is what we\u2019re preparing for the possibility of \u2014 that if Roe were to fall, abortion would probably be illegal in about half the states in the country, up to 26 states particularly in the South, Midwest and West who have all spoken out, many leaders, about how they\u2019re poised to restrict or ban access. Some have even taken action even as recently as yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki also pointed to some states\u2019 trigger laws that would immediately take effect in banning or restricting abortion if the 1973 landmark decision is overturned. The press secretary warned that tens of millions of women could lack abortion access if such laws take effect. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/03\/bill-barr-scotus-leak-obstruction-of-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Beyond The Pale\u2019: Bill Barr Says SCOTUS Leak Could Be A Possible Obstruction Of Justice)\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She then said the bans would disproportionately impact communities of color and those living in lower income areas, citing data that 75% of women receiving abortions live at or below the poverty level. She also said a majority of those seeking abortions are black, Hispanic or AAPI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a prohibitive cost, it will not be safe and that is what we\u2019re focused on working to address as we are making policy decisions and considerations,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n<p>In a Tuesday statement, Chief Justice John Roberts <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/03\/betrayal-roberts-speaks-out-about-scotus-leak-announces-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> an investigation by the Marshal of the Court into the leak, calling it a \u201cbetrayal\u201d and an attempt to \u201cundermine the integrity\u201d of the Court. Politico published on Monday a copy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/05\/02\/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">draft opinion<\/a> written by Associate Justice Samuel Alito calling Roe \u201cegregiously wrong from the start.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the extent this betrayal of the confidence of the Court was intended to undermine the integrity of our operations, it will not succeed,\u201d Roberts wrote in the statement about the leak. \u201cThe work of the Court will not be affected in any way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Supreme Court experts also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/02\/supreme-court-overturn-roe-v-wade-dobbs-jackson-womens-health-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">condemned<\/a> the unprecedented leak, with some insinuating the possibility that a liberal leaked the draft in an effort to influence the Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki dodged a reporter\u2019s question Tuesday on whether White House condemns the leak of a Supreme Court draft majority opinion that would overturn Roe v.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":1481635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1464212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}