On Abortion, It's Democrats vs. Democracy

Analysis: Republican National Committee

DEMOCRATS ARE WILLING TO DESTROY OUR INSTITUTIONS

• Democrats are using the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision to justify their flagrant power grab, demanding that the Court "adhere to political demands or face institutional disaster" and a "revolution."
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  <li>This means abolishing the filibuster, packing the Supreme Court, and impeaching the justices.</li>
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  <li>Despite claiming that the "<a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1316899408315772928">the words of a president matter</a>," Biden and Democrats have been <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1546513043181420544">silent</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1546173493859024897">even</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1541138312626421760">condoned</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1540372597615083521">pro-abortion</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1540167521613004801">radicals</a> who <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1545462967688482819">have</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1546137072569880577">harassed</a>, threatened, and attempted violence against Supreme Court justices.
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  <li>Over <a href="https://catholicvote.org/pregnancy-center-attack-tracker/">40 pro-life centers</a> have been attacked, firebombed, or vandalized since the draft opinion leak of <em>Dobbs</em>.</li>
  <li>In Maryland, a pro-abortion assassin was arrested after he <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-kavanaugh-assassination-attempt-arrest">attempted to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh</a>, an act that Biden has still not personally condemned.</li>
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  <li>Chief Justice Roberts has denounced Democrats' threats against the Court as a "<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-roberts-chuck-schumer-threatening-comments-neil-gorsuch-brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court/">dangerous</a>" attempt to exercise "<a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2022/01/01/inappropriate-political-influence-chief-justice-john-roberts-responds-to-threats-against-the-court/">inappropriate political influence</a>."</li>
  

DEMOCRATS CONDONE PRO-ABORTION VIOLENCE

• Pro-abortion radicals have targeted and attacked pregnancy and pro-life centers across the country as Democrats refuse to denounce the violence.
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  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1534588292456497155">Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)</a> answered "yes" when asked if he was "comfortable with protests…outside the homes of Supreme Court justices."</li>
  <li><a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmaloney.house.gov%2Fmedia-center%2Fpress-releases%2Fmaloney-bonamici-menendez-warren-introduce-legislation-to-stop-anti&amp;data=05%7C01%7CSFeigelson%40gop.com%7Cd29126ad03c84e5baf9108da5a0c9ac9%7C4a082c81950a410d9618462a9c74d6ae%7C1%7C0%7C637921307436153187%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=1mPKGwQ0yxaZ1T%2BpUB9QzNhLCKoOtoSZJuE2etyRedY%3D&amp;reserved=0">Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)</a> and other prominent Democrats introduced legislation to "crack down" on crisis pregnancy centers that help women keep their babies.</li>
  <li><a href="https://politicalemails.org/messages/701452">Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)</a> encouraged her supporters to "rise up" because "a normal response won't suffice."</li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1540431799129702402?s=20&amp;t=w1rAjBFPEkO0jc_I9MkvRQ">Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA)</a> called on pro-abortion activists to "armor up" because "there's a war out there."</li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1540431799129702402?s=20&amp;t=w1rAjBFPEkO0jc_I9MkvRQ">Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA)</a> agreed with Rep. Speier's statements to "armor up," adding, "that's right, this is not a drill."</li>
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  <li>Democrats have <a href="https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/05-10-2022/protesting-tactics/">refused to condemn the violence and harassing protests</a> that they have encouraged.
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  <li>Biden never personally <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1546513043181420544">condemned the assassination attempt</a> of Justice Brett Kavanaugh even though he has found time to encourage pro-abortion activists to "<a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1546682069518098432">keep protesting</a>."</li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1545462967688482819">Biden's Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre</a> condoned pro-abortion activists protesting outside the restaurant where Justice Kavanaugh was eating.</li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1546137072569880577?s=20&amp;t=P2K6ulMzAwdrtbqt4od6EQ">Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg</a> said it's fine that activists were harassing Justice Kavanaugh: "people are upset."</li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1522332234136621058">Former Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1523749688729550848">multiple</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1523756230082056192">occasions</a> refused to condemn activists posting the justices' home addresses online.</li>
  <li><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/05/06/press-gaggle-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-5/">Psaki</a> refused to say if Biden "has a view" on activists harassing justices at their homes and <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1524102475988488194">downplayed</a> the harassment, claiming protests "have been peaceful to date and we certainly continue to encourage that outside of judges' homes."</li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1522690143613816833">Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)</a> called on protesters to actively pressure justices to influence their decisions.</li>
  <li>After Democrats blocked a bill to increase security for the justices and their families amid threats and an assassination attempt, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10900319/House-Dems-BLOCK-security-Supreme-Court-justices-arrested-man-threatening-Kavanaugh.html">Pelosi</a> claimed no justice was "in danger."</li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1541138312626421760">Gov. Gretchen Witmer (D-MI)</a> refused to condemn violence from pro-abortion extremists.</li>
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DEMOCRATS WANT TO ABOLISH THE FILIBUSTER AND PACK THE COURT

• Democrats want to pack the Supreme Court in order to hijack the judicial branch and remove the filibuster to pass their radical Abortion For All Act, the most "pro-abortion bill" in history.
• Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) promised to be the 51^st vote to "end the filibuster" if Democrats keep the majority in the midterms.
• Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) called to "Expand the Supreme Court to rebalance it" and "End the filibuster to codify Roe."
• Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) said "it's clearer now more than ever before that we must expand the broken, stolen, and illegitimate Supreme Court of the United States."
• Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said "we must end the filibuster" to pass abortion legislation.
• Pennsylvania Senate Candidate John Fetterman said he wants to eliminate the filibuster to "codify" abortion without any limits.
• • Fetterman: "Democrats have to act quickly — get rid of the filibuster to pass the [Abortion For All Act] + finally codify Roe into law."
• Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA): "Time to unstack it — expand the Court."
• Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA): "It's time to expand the Court."
• Rep. Marie Newman (D-IL): "abolish the filibuster and codify Roe NOW."
• Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH): "it's time to end the filibuster, pass the" Abortion For All Act.
• Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN): "We need to organize like never before to keep building our progressive coalition to expand the Supreme Court."
• • Omar: It's just "common sense" to pack the Supreme Court.
• Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA): "Abolish the filibuster" and "Expand the Court."
• Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO): the Senate should "abolish the filibuster" and force pro-life Americans to fund abortions for "pregnant people."
• • Bush: "we must abolish the filibuster, codify Roe, expand the Supreme Court."
• Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM) called on the Senate to "eliminate" the filibuster and "codify the right to abortion without governmental interference."
• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called for "expanding the Supreme Court" and "abolishing the Senate filibuster."
• Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) called on the Senate to "scrap the filibuster."
• Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY): "Together, we will expand the Court."
• Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta (D-PA): "We must expand the court and reform it."
• Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX): "Abolish the filibuster. Expand the Supreme Court."
• Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA): "End the filibuster and expand SCOTUS."

DEMOCRATS WANT TO DESTROY THE JUDICIAL BRANCH

• Biden and Democrats have used abortion to attack the Supreme Court, attempting to delegitimize and dismantle the institution.
• • After the Supreme Court gave a voice to Americans on the issue of abortion, Biden smeared the Court as "extremist" in front of an audience overseas at a NATO Summit.
  • Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA): "The Supreme Court has a legitimacy crisis."
  • Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) called the Supreme Court "stolen, illegitimate" and "far right."
  • Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY): "A filibuster carveout is not enough. We need to reform or do away with the whole thing."
  • Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX) claimed "the Supreme Court has lost its legitimacy."
  • Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) questioned the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.
  • Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) accused Republicans of "stealing two seats on the Supreme Court to build an illegitimate majority."
  • Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot: "F*ck Clarence Thomas."
• Democrats have said they want to impeach Supreme Court justices or pressure them to resign.
• • Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) called for "an impeachment investigation" against Justices Thomas, Gorsuch, Alito, Barrett, and Kavanaugh.
  • Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ): "Retweet if you think Justice Clarence Thomas should resign. Now."
  • Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY): "I'm calling for Clarence Thomas … to be impeached."
  • Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY): It's "our Constitutional duty to reign in" and impeach Supreme Court justices for rulings we don't like.
• Democrats have called for ignoring or "defy[ing]" the Court.
• • Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said "the hell with the Supreme Court! We will defy them!"

DEMOCRATS ARE LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

• In their desperate attempt to scare the American people, Democrats are falsely claiming overturning Roe will lead to the Supreme Court reversing prior decisions on same sex marriage, contraception, and interracial marriage.
• The Court and legal experts have rejected Democrats' baseless claims.
• • In the Dobbs opinion, the Supreme Court strictly outlines that "abortion is fundamentally different" than issues like "sexual relations, contraception and marriage."
  • George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley called out Nancy Pelosi for repeating "the false claim that this decision [will] now undo cases on contraception and other areas."
  • Turley said this argument "has always been absurd but has become a talking point on the left," calling it "utter nonsense."
  • Ed Whelan, a Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, said that the Supreme Court decision distinguishes abortion as "fundamentally different" from past decisions such as "sexual relations, contraception, and marriage."
  • American Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Adam J. White – who was a member of Biden's Supreme Court commission – has said that the idea that overturning Roe would threaten previous Supreme Court rulings on interracial marriage was "baseless."
• Despite slamming the Court for overturning precedent, Democrats have long advocated for overruling past Court decisions such as Citizens United and Heller.

THIS ISN'T THE FIRST TIME

• The Dobbs ruling is just the latest excuse Democrats are using to attack American institutions to ram through their pro-abortion agenda.
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  <li>In January, Senate Democrats attempted to <a href="https://gop.com/research/democrats-filibuster-hypocrisy-rsr/">gut the filibuster</a> after spending decades saying that such a move was "dangerous" and a "doomsday for democracy."</li>
  <li>In April 2021, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler (D-NY) Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), and others <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2021/04/17/how-much-does-the-current-structure-benefit-us-aoc-questions-role-of-supreme-court-in-defending-court-packing/">released a court packing bill</a> to add four liberal justices to the Court.</li>
  <li>As <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/29/barbara-litalien-clarence-thomas-impeachment-801680">early as 2018</a>, Democrats were calling for Justice Clarence Thomas to resign or be <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/03/29/democrats-clarence-thomas-conflict">impeached from the Court</a>.</li>
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Originally posted here.