The Supreme Court on Wednesday hearing oral argument on a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks, with the nine justices focusing on the legal precedent landmark Roe v. Wade and similar cases.
The three liberal justices -- Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Stephen Breyer -- in the case before them, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization discussed the potential political ramifications for the high court if precedent regarding abortion were overturned.
"Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts?" Sotomayor asked.
"If people actually believe that it’s all political how will we survive? How will the court survive?" she said later, in the nearly two-hour hearing.
