noted on the screwiness of the TX law itself and how it's not exactly traditionally conservative:

Helpful to look at big picture history of the political and cultural divide on this, what it used to be and what it changed to.

For many reasons but one of them is that the Supreme Court tends to look at big picture when approaching cases like this, too.

Alito (and others): It's not over til it's over; y'all making incorrect simple-minded if not moronic presumptions about us and we're getting tired of that

Excerpts:

[....] In his address, Alito repeatedly railed against the media for propagating what he called “unfair and damaging attacks” on the court, but also accused “political figures” of doing the same.

“The media and political talk about the shadow docket is not serious criticism,” Alito insisted. At another point, he snarked at the press: “Journalists may think we can dash off an opinion the way they dash off articles.”[....]

 

Alito denounced what he called “false and inflammatory claims” that the court had overruled Roe v. Wade in its emergency order refusing to block the Texas abortion ban. “We did no such thing and we said that expressly,” the conservative justice declared.

Alito noted that the urgency in the Texas case came not from the justices, but from abortion providers who sought relief from the justices about 36 hours before the law was to kick in.[....]

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