'Simply making this up': Ted Cruz blasts Chief Justice Roberts over Dobbs resolution

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blasted Chief Justice John Roberts's resolution within the landmark Supreme Courtroom opinion upending Roe v. Wade, arguing his resolution to disagree with the opposite Republican-appointed justices reveals he "is simply making this up."

In a choice launched Friday, the justices voted 6-3 to uphold Mississippi's ban on abortion after 15 weeks whereas permitting states to make legal guidelines severely limiting or proscribing abortion procedures. The reasoning for the opinion got here all the way down to a 5-1-3 cut up, with Justice Samuel Alito writing the bulk ruling overturning Roe, whereas Roberts's concurrence sought a narrower ruling that centered solely on upholding Mississippi's ban. Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan dissented.

"I believe Roberts, his opinion was derived from political warning, somewhat than authorized constancy to the Structure," the Texas senator stated Sunday on his podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz.

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Roberts wrote within the opinion that he would have upheld Mississippi's ban on virtually all abortions after 15 weeks of gestation, although he would not have taken a "dramatic step" to take Roe "all the way in which all the way down to the studs." The chief justice indicated he would have opted for a extra "measured course" for the excessive courtroom, suggesting that the opposite 5 Republican-appointed justices had gone too far to overturn Roe.

"Roberts is making this up. And in reality, either side on this litigation stated, 'Nope, you have both acquired to overturn Roe or uphold it totally.' Each of them agree that is the entire enchilada," Cruz stated, referring to the Justice Division's place throughout oral arguments in December, when Solicitor Basic Elizabeth Prelogar contended that upholding the Mississippi legislation would successfully upend Roe.

Cruz additionally praised Alito's authorship of the opinion, which modified "little or no" from the leaked draft of the ruling on Might 2.

"I believe it truly is a press release from the courtroom that lawlessness, that leaking an opinion, that rioting, that tried homicide, isn't going to alter the operation of our judicial system," Cruz stated, including that Alito "eviscerates Roberts."

"Some states have set deadlines for acquiring an abortion which are shorter than Mississippi’s," Alito wrote in response to Roberts. "If we held solely that Mississippi’s 15-week rule is constitutional, we'd quickly be referred to as upon to move on the constitutionality of a panoply of legal guidelines with shorter deadlines or no deadline in any respect."

"The 'measured course' charted by the concurrence could be fraught with turmoil till the courtroom answered the query that the concurrence seeks to defer," Alito added.