Just ten minutes after the 98-page draft opinion of the Dobbs case written by Justice Samuel Alito overturning a patient’s right to access reproductive healthcare was circulated to the nine Supreme Court justices for their review, Trump-appointed Neil Gorsuch sent his colleagues on the bench an email that he had signed off on the decision, the New York Times reports (gift link).
Typically, justices take days or weeks to review a draft opinion and offer notes, ask questions and suggest changes. Gorsuch did none of that on any paragraph or page of the document; he approved it after seemingly reading more than 10 pages per minute, a rate rivaling the best Evelyn Wood graduate.
The cavalier attitude with which Gorsuch handled the precedent-breaking case demonstrates how determined the conservative bloc of the Court was to overturn Roe and for the first time in US history, rescind a right the Court had previously affirmed.