A bit surprised Ketanji Brown Jackson is the only dissenter. I would have expected at least Sotomayor to join her here.
I guess Brown Jackson's trying to be left wing's version of Alito now that she's on the court?
How, pray tell, does Justice Jackson's stance on
Munsingwear vacatur suggest she is "trying to be left wing's version of Alito"? I can't recall Justice Alito having previously written on the topic. Justice Sotomayor did dissent in one of the travel ban cases that was resolved on
Munsingwear, but she would have DIGed it and did not write an opinion, so I'm not sure why you're so surprised she did not join Justice Jackson's opinion here either.
Actually, to stop playing around: The opinion is not about abortion. There was an opinion called
Dobbs you may have heard of that obliterated the underlying constitutional right, and the constitutional issue in the 8th Circuit’s opinion vanished with it. Justice Jackson’s opinion is solely about the merits and use of a technical doctrine that doesn’t have an obvious partisan valence. You should read it before opining on it.