(Video: ABC)
In her reaction to Monday night’s SCOTUS leak, “The View” co-host Joy Behar set her willful ignorance on display in expressing fears of “fascism down the line” and suggesting “they’ll go after gay marriage” and reinstitute racial segregation, all while smearing a third of the Supreme Court Justices as liars.
After she heard about Justice Samuel Alito’s majority draft opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that would overturn the 1973 decision of Roe v. Wade, Behar announced, “I couldn’t go back to sleep. It’s that devastating.” What the decision ultimately means is a return of authority back to the states to make their own laws regarding an issue that is not covered in the Constitution, as set forth by the Tenth Amendment.
What the decision does not represent is an act of a rogue judiciary making declarations as the talk show host seemed to portray.
“It sounds to me that all of them felt that there was precedent set, and that they would honor the precedent. And now it’s the complete opposite that’s happening, not that I’m surprised. You and I were talking before, we’re not surprised. We saw this coming,” Behar told her cohosts.
“My worry,” Behar went on, demonstrating that she had not read the draft, “is that this is just the beginning, next they’ll go after gay marriage and maybe, maybe the board, the, what is it Brown versus Board of Education. They already eroded our voting rights a little bit. So, I see fascism down the line here.”
In her setup, clips were played from the Senate confirmation hearings for Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett where they each affirmed that Roe was precedent. The legal framework of their arguments led Behar to react with confusion and dismissal, “Heh? Whatever.”
“During those hearings, all these people that are voting to overturn this lied. Didn’t they lie?” she argued ahead of the snippets that were pulled from hours of sworn testimony.
For one, if Behar had actually reviewed the opinion, she would see that Alito addressed that precedents get overturned and that Brown v. Board of Education had done exactly that in overturning Plessy v. Ferguson, “Some of our most important constitutional decisions have overruled prior precedents. We mention three. In Brown v. Board of Education, the Court repudiated the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine, which had allowed States to maintain segregated schools and other facilities.”
“In so doing, the Court overruled the infamous decision in Plessy v. Ferguson…along with six other Supreme Court precedents that had applied the separate-but-equal rule,” Alito added.
“On many other occasions, this Court has overruled important constitutional decisions…Without these decisions,” he went on, “American constitutional law as we know it would be unrecognizable, and this would be a different country.”
Furthermore, he stipulated, “No Justice of this Court has ever argued that the Court should never overrule a constitutional decision, but overruling a precedent is a serious matter.”
Additionally, had Behar looked at more than one excerpt from the hearings, she would have found the Justices consistently argue that they do not make law from the bench. They merely apply the law to the cases set before them.
.@SenFeinstein asks Judge #Gorsuch: "Do you view Roe as having super-precedent?" #SCOTUS #SCOTUSnominee pic.twitter.com/pn9bEmbXvG
— CSPAN (@cspan) March 21, 2017
Precedent, Gorsuch explained, “adds to the determinacy of law. We have lots of tools that allow us to narrow the realm of admissible dispute between parties…It’s part of the reason why the rule of law in this country works so well. We have statutes. We have rules. We have a fact-finding process in a judicial system that’s the envy of the world.”
“And precedent is a key part of that because…once a case is settled, that adds to the determinacy of the law,” Gorsuch continued. “What was once a hotly contested issue is no longer a hotly contested issue. We move forward.”
When asked by Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) if he viewed Roe as having super-precedent, the Justice replied, “it has been reaffirmed many times. I can say that.”
This is not, by any means, a contradiction to the snippet played by Behar where Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) questioned Gorsuch.
“The Supreme Court of the United States has held in Roe v. Wade that a fetus is not a person for purposes of the 14th Amendment, and the book explains that.” When Durbin asked, Gorsuch accepted and answered, “That’s the law of the land, I accept the law of the land Senator, yes.”
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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37 thoughts on “Really, Joy? Behar spreads fear that SCOTUS might vote for racial segregation again”
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Don’t know where you have been Joy but with your help the far left has been returned us to segregation for some time now. Like Candice says dems. are fighting to keep people of color on the dem. plantation and fighting to return those people of color back to the dem. plantation that have found freedom elsewhere.
Al the court said was the ruling needs to be returned back to the states. There is not proper provisions in the constitution for abortion to be controlled at the federal level. We saw Kamala get the most excited since becoming the VP in her rant of how dare you tell a women what she can do with her body. Well Kamala how dare you tell me to put experimental drugs in my body or lose my job, how dare you degrade women by allowing men competing in womans sports, how dare you deprive women of their privacy by opening women’s bath rooms to men at will. How dare you allow illegals to kill and rape our daughters. I am sure there are other how dares, but my final one is how dare you disallow me to have states of higher moral standards to move to and raise my children if i choose. Most state will not change their abortion standards. But the citizens of states should have the option trough their votes.
Here is a point of interest. Colored women are 7% of the population but receive 40% of the abortions. An educational problem?
Perhaps Joy Behar should abort herself now so we don’t have to hear from her anymore
The nitwits in colleges are doing a pretty good job OF SEGREGATION and DISCRIMINATION so no one needs to LEGALIZE IT! Oh, it’s ACTUALLY ILLEGAL to SEGREGATE AND DISCRIMINATE??? WOW – how are they getting by with it then??
SCOTUS will vote to restore segregation only if the majority are racist donkeys. Where do you think “Separate But Equal” came from?
Exactly! The Democrats, including Joe Biden, fought integration tooth and nail.
What’s next on the chopping block is the Progressive Democrat party and they are too stupid to realize it.
America has had it with your nonsense.
The decision to drop Roe is PRO-black, since a majority of, and the reason why, the abortion industry was started was to limit/eliminate blacks! She’s nuts!
Joyless Barf-hard is so stupid, the blacks are self segregating, of course with this moron’s help.
First of all HOW DARE this ignoramus make such outlandish statements! I don’t ever watch this nitwit, as she is about as reliable as a rock. Regardless, she’s someone who sits in front of cameras, trying to make herself relevant, which she is not. Why isn’t there more talk and outrage over the fact that the sanctity of OUR Supreme Court was violated? I have opposed the massive killing of our unborn babies for years now, but that is my opinion. Regardless of that, there is absolutely no time where what goes on behind our court’s closed doors should ever be leaked. We all know it was done on purpose, because look what has happened!! How ironic the protesters were so prepared with their signs and showing up, almost on cue!! So to say this wasn’t all planned out ahead of time is like saying the sun will never rise in the East again. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am sick and tired of the lying and corruption going on in our government which seems to be escalating at an alarming rate.
What do you have against rocks?
If Joyless Behind can find a “right to privacy” anywhere in the constitution, I will listen to her rantings, but, since more than 20 constitutional scholars have not been able to find that clause anywhere in the constitution, I don’t think I will ever have a reason to listen to her ignorant rantings. That nonexistent “privacy clause” is what Roe was decided upon. That has made the decision unconstitutional since it was made. Liberals and other baby killers have known since day 1 about this problem with the law, and have had 49 years to correct the defects in Roe, but have not, yet they are somehow “surprised” Roe would be overturned. What a bunch of hypocrites. FJB
Probably in the wording of the 4th Amendment. How can we be secure in our houses and effects if we have no privacy?
The satanic leftist’s agenda, Bring back racial segregation, Ban gay marriage, kill Welfare/Affirmative Action, return to meritocracy, close the borders, deport illegals, put violent, destructive criminals back in prisons, defund NPR, PBS, remove over 500 million annual funding for Plan Parenthood,
This is the sheer idiocy, and misinformation and blatant lies that is common on The View, by semi-literate morons like Joy Behar, and that great intellectual Caren Johnson (Whoppi Goldberg), Just hate, blame, negativity and vindictiveness by these disgusting old crones
She’ll be segregated to the sewer where rats belong
It appears that Joyless can’t stand to let an opportunity to display her unfathomable ignorance go to waste.
Is this what passes for wisdom from Joy Beehive? It’s a miracle that this show is still on the air.
Really? No worries. Many in the black community are working at that full time. Obama, Jesse, Al, BLM, those that love wallowing in their perceived victimhood and making money.
YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID !
Behar, always ridiculous.
Hey joy behar, don’t worry about being segregated in schools again the WOKE teachers are doing that for CRT. It’s time for r v w to be over with. Now that you nuts have figured out what a woman is time to figure out what contraception is.
And refrain from casual sex hookups.
*Joyous Behar is truly an intellectual giant.
*This is raw sarcasm.
Once a moron always a moron.
She wears it like a badge of honor.
“The View” co-host Joy Behar is a complete nincompoop with the brain of an amoeba. She is the essence of ignorance with a big mouth. I would suggest her actually reading our Constitution except I doubt she would comprehend what she was reading!!
Good post Bob. Thank You.
Your problem is that you give a shit what Behar, Goldberg and the rest of the cows on the view think! No one else does. If not for your reporting of the View no one would know who the hell Behar and Goldberg were. That show used to be called “Three Hags and a Hottie” but the hottie left and no one has watched since then. Give it up! Throw dirt on them and walk away.
Behar, SHHEEEEET for Brains! Must be a born and raised NY’er!
Behar ,the ignorant lying pig, again shows how intellectually dishonest and vapid she is. Spitting in her face is the best thing for her ignorance. Maybe she’ll get the hint then that she’s a hatefilled moron.
Okay, we do see the madness coming out of loonies over this. It’s to be expected. Some, like this Behar-woman and that absolute kook, Erich “I Slept with a Communist Spy” Swalwell have made predictions so wild-eyed that they qualify for beds in mental institutions. But, the thing that shouldn’t be ignored or underestimated is that there really are millions and millions of people in the country that actually believe all their madness.
“I couldn’t go back to sleep. It’s that devastating.”
I guess the thought of all those babies who will survive the slaughter and all those out of work abortionists is quite distressing for people who hate kids and love kid killers.
Racial segregation is already a reality and it has been cemented in by the likes of Jackson, Sharpton, Goldberg, et al. Let just one black begin working their way out of the welfare line via legal means, and they get slapped down, accused of “acting white”. Tell me that isn’t racially-enforced segregation.
It IS blacks, themselves, creating segregation….separate classrooms, graduations, proms, safe spaces, CRT, just to name a few.
Joy is so dumb I’m surprised she can remember to breath. What do you think that makes the people that follow her, the Democrat base..
This show has got to be, truly, one of the most despicable morning shows, with the most progressive hosts ever seen on TV! I’m glad I don’t have cable. Amazing that so many people, if that’s what you want to call them, even watch this show.
This bitch has truly lost her mind!