U.S. Constitution

Day two brought a drop in the quantity of post-Roe lamentations from the self-styled comedians of late night, but the lousy quality of legal analysis, civic understanding, and promotion of abortion as a social good continued on Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning.

Now that the dust has settled a little bit from the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, it’s time for Jennifer Rubin to come out of the woodwork to pen a truly egregious opinion piece for The Washington Post. 

With the Supreme Court’s monumental decision to overturn Roe v. Wade being released this morning, the entire liberal media has entered a collective period of mourning, grief, and anger. One of the first salvos of this predictable keening came from The Washington Post’s Caroline Kitchener, whose…

Even by MSNBC standards, the network’s reaction to the downfall of Roe v. Wade was extreme as they mourned this “very dark day in America.”

After an initially tame reaction the Supreme Court’s ruling that said states cannot prohibit citizens from obtaining a concealed carry permit for self-defense provided they pass all the other criteria, MSNBC went off the rails in the 11:00 hour by warning of more shootings and dead children.

Because the Supreme Court has “court” in its name, most people understand that it is an institution tasked with addressing legal issues, but MSNBC’s Ali Velshi and The New Yorker’s Sheelah Kolhatkar are not most people. On Velshi’s Saturday show, they condemned the Court for “talking about the Constitution” and “the right to life” while ignoring economic statistics.

Shortly after getting in touch with reality for a second and demanding greater domestic oil production earlier in the show on Friday, the cackling coven of ABC’s The View dipped into lunacy as they cheered on justice correspondent for The Nation and staunch racist Elie Mystal and his declaration that the Constitution is “kind of trash.”