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Lincoln Project ‘Joining With All Americans’ to ‘Fight Authoritarianism’

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A political action committee formed by disaffected Republicans says a leaked Supreme Court opinion in support of overturning federal abortion rights is part of an authoritarian movement now dominating the GOP.

The Lincoln Project issued the blistering statement Tuesday, a day after the reported opinion showed the court backs repealing the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling. Since being formed to oppose the re-election of then-President Donald Trump, The Lincoln Project has targeted Republicans aligned with the former president and sided against the party on culture war issues.

“The Lincoln Project is joining forces with all Americans to fight the threat of authoritarianism,” the group said in the statement. “Modern democracies rarely die today in violent coups. They die at the ballot box and in the courtroom.”

Protesters in New York City hold up cardboard cutouts of Supreme Court justices as citizens take to the streets Tuesday in reaction to the leak of the court’s draft opinion in support of overturning Roe v. Wade.
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The group said in the statement that if the leaked opinion, reportedly written by Justice Samuel Alito, is final, it’ll be part of “a long series of ‘roll back the clock’ efforts by right wing extremists.” The statement said the decision “will take America back to a dark period when states will have the power to impose the power of the state over even survivors and victims of rape and incest.”

The Lincoln Project said the leaked opinion is part of a movement seeking to “remove individual rights and freedoms that are the cornerstones of a modern civil society.” It also criticized Supreme Court justices for saying in their confirmation hearings that Roe v. Wade was settled law.

Calling them “Trump led autocrats,” the group’s statement took aim at Republican governors and legislators’ efforts to pass a range of bills that critics say would ban books in schools, undermine the rights of the LGBTQ community, as well as making it harder…

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