Colbert Calls Out All the Times Right Wing SCOTUS Justices Lied About Their Roe v Wade Plans (Video)

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the news that a leaked opinion draft written by SCOTUS Justice Samuel Alito proves that the right wing majority on the court — all but one of whom were appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote and only became president thanks to the electoral college — are voting to overturn Roe v Wade, a decision likely to drop within the next month.But on “The Late Show,” Colbert noted that 4 of the 5 justices in question seemed to have gone out of their way to misrepresent their views when they were being confirmed.“This draft decision is scathing, at one point Alito writes ‘Roe was egregiously wrong from the start.’ Now I’m not a lawyer, I can’t tell you if Roe was rightly decided.

But I can tell you that it’s an important precedent that has been repeatedly reaffirmed. And that’s not my opinion. It’s the opinion of these clowns,” Colbert said.Then he jumped to the supercut from the Senate confirmation hearings of Justice Samuel Alito (appointed by George W.

Bush, who lost the popular vote in the 2000 election), and Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett (all appointed by Donald Trump, who lost the popular vote by 3 million in 2016).

We’ll quote them exactly:Alito: “Roe v. Wade is an important precedent of the Supreme Court.”Barrett: “Roe v. Wade clearly held that the constitution protected a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy.”Gorsuch: “The Supreme Court of the United States has held in Roe v.