‘SNL’s Weekend Update Reacts To Leaked Supreme Court Draft Opinion

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Tonight on SNL, Weekend Update’s anchors dedicated most of their time to the Supreme Court draft opinion leaked earlier this week, which indicated that the Justices may soon overturn Roe v.

Wade.“Well, guys, tomorrow is Mother’s Day, whether you want it to be one or not,” anchor Colin Jost joked up top, noting that the leak was “unprecedented” and could cause “lasting damage” to the Supreme Court.“So, the court is usually careful, but they slipped up just this once, and now they’ve got to live with it forever,” he deadpanned. “Wow, sounds really unfair.”Jost then said that the Supreme Court opinion was written by Justice Samuel Alito, who based his arguments on laws from the 1600s. “So, it’s an outdated opinion from an angry 70-year-old?” he asked. “This shouldn’t be a Supreme Court decision; it should just be a Facebook post.”Jost went on to note that the opinion also seemed to have been written in a “weird, conservative” bubble. “Here’s how you know—he quotes his own colleague, Brett Kavanaugh, six times, one for each beer in the pack,” Jost said. “He even cites Kavanaugh on civil rights, which is like citing Amber Heard on how to make a bed.” (As he said that punchline, we cut to a newspaper article reading, “Guard Alleges Heard Admitted to Pooping In Depp’s Bed.”)“Chief Justice John Roberts said that the leak was ‘the work of one bad apple,'” continued Jost, who then pulled up a painting of Eve in the Garden of Eden while joking that “‘One bad apple’ is also another legal argument used in Alito’s opinion.”Anchor Michael Che then took over the conversation, noting that as a man, there’s no way he can understand the full impact of Roe v.