And what is so offensive about Justice Alito’s draft opinion? It indicates that five justices are poised to rule that the issue of abortion should be returned to the states, from which the Court usurped it a half-century ago, in a ruling that cannot be defended as constitutional law because it never even purported to be constitutional law. Indeed, even in upholding Roe’s bottom line, Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) had to gut its reasoning and, as Justice Alito compellingly demonstrates, sidestep its failure to connect the ruling to any specific provision under all the Constitution’s wily penumbras and emanations.

What the Left is doing is the Big Lie.

It is a lie at least as offensive as Trump’s “Stop the Steal” mendacity. Biden and woke progressives suggest that the Supreme Court is banning abortion. If — and this is a big if — the eventual ruling is consistent with Alito’s draft, what the Supreme Court would be doing is consigning abortion to the democratic process — you remember, the “ground up” process that progressives never cease telling us how much they revere.

Would that abortion could be banned by a court!