Alito’s Disingenuous Originalism in Dobbs

How this ruling takes America’s women back to the 18th century

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In his written opinion in Dobbs (full text here), Justice Alito’s pseudo-legal “scholarship” is outrageous. He first claims the absence of the term ‘abortion’ in the Constitution. He then conducts a mock search for references to legal abortion in the history and traditions of the United…