The Supreme Court will Survive and the Killing will Continue.

The leak the other day of the upcoming Supreme Court decision throwing out Roe v. Wade was a devious and contemptible act, though your Tatler believes the gloom and doom pronouncements over it are overreactions. The miscreant should not be difficult to find and though for impartiality’s sake staffs of all the justices will have to be investigated, it is more than likely the leak came from the offices of one of the liberals.

This correspondent’s money is on the office of the weakest justice on the bench (though soon to be displaced), Sotomayer, whose clerks no doubt reflect her intellectual limitations and easily capable of perpetrating such a stupid act. Once the guilty party is nabbed, disbarred and, we hope, imprisoned, that ought to be the end of the matter. The Court will survive and possibly even benefit from the debacle. Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit and professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law, suggests one result could be the end of the Supreme Court hiring clerks.

The Justices did their own work for the first century of the Court, before clerks were introduced, and arguably their opinions were better. In fact, come to think of it, the Court should probably stop hiring clerks anyway. The original justification was that they would be a transmission belt bringing the latest legal thinking from law schools to the justices. Given the state of law schools today, that’s a bug, not a feature.

As for the caterwauling of abortion advocates over the future Court decision (maybe), who without God in their lives weirdly seem to regard the slaughter of innocents in the womb as some sort of hideous sacrament, the gruesome procedure will still be available in 37 of the 50 states. That number will remain the same for some time, though the Court decision will now allow each state to determine where it stands on the subject . This will not satisfy the screamers of course, who demand unrestricted abortions throughout pregnancy and beyond. Their shrieking will continue unabated as will the killing of unborn babies.

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