27 June—There’s a bright side to the Supreme Court’s disgraceful if predictable decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which effectively dumped on, while not actually dumping, legal abortion in America. It’ll be great for the economies of states like Connecticut, which allow abortions and need the income that will be generated by abortion tourism.

Connecticut, for one, needs all the income it can muster to cover the profligate spending of the deeply entrenched Democrats in the administration and legislature. Right now, Gov. Ned Lamont and his fellow connivers in the Connecticut General Assembly have no one to pay the bills but captive taxpayers.

A National Public Radio/Marist poll released this morning (whose copyright I’m possibly infringing by exceeding fair-use content, wherefore I apologize to NPR before they come and get me) indicates that a mere 56 percent of respondents are opposed to SCOTUS’s Roe dump, with 40 percent in favor. Professed Democrats are strongly opposed, 88 percent to 10 in favor. Embarrassingly, Republicans approve of the SCOTUS Roe dump, with 77 percent in favor, 20 percent against. Independents are opposed 53 percent to 41 percent.

Men are opposed 54 to 43 percent, women 59 to 38 percent. College graduates are opposed 69 to 30 percent. Non-graduates are equally divided 47 to 47 percent.

Sixty percent of non-Whites are opposed, along with only 54 percent of Whites. Fifty-seven percent say the Roe dump was based on politics and 56 percent are worried that, notwithstanding Samuel Alito’s implication to the contrary, it’s the thin end of the wedge to Clarence Thomas’s wet dream of reconsidering and presumably proscribing contraception and homosexuality. Miscegenation wasn’t mentioned.

Only 39 percent of respondents expressed confidence in SCOTUS—an all-time low.

Surprisingly, only 51 percent of NPR respondents say they’d definitely vote for a candidate who supported a federal law to restore abortion rights. A CBS poll found 58 percent of respondents in favor of such a federal law (as opposed to candidates who’d support it).

The problem with a federal law to restore and/or protect abortion rights is that the Supreme Court with anything like its current complexion is likely to shoot it down as unconstitutional. The only way to foreclose that, of course, is by amending the Constitution. And that’s no mean feat.

It must be said that, unlike the Congress, the Supreme Court should not be influenced by or beholden to mere majoritarian/democratic politics. Nor should it be influenced by personal belief and bias. But it is and always has been.

Now for something completely different. Residents of Goshen, Litchfield, Morris, and Warren must vote in tomorrow’s referendum in favor of consolidating all the towns’ schools as Region 20. All positives to consolidation, no negatives. Therefore, people who don’t approve of the consolidation shouldn’t bother to vote because their votes will just be wasted . . .