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Former CNN star Chris Cuomo delivered a statement this week that would have been unthinkable from many media figures just a few years ago.
Cuomo told listeners on his podcast that the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—which overturned Roe v. Wade—was legally correct.
“In the eyes of the law, Dobbs was the right decision,” Cuomo said while discussing major Supreme Court rulings during a special Independence Day-themed episode of The Chris Cuomo Project. “Why? Roe created a legal rationale that did not exist.”
Cuomo continued: “And if you do not create it constitutionally or legislatively, it should not exist.”
The remarks stand out because they echo an argument conservatives, constitutional originalists and legal scholars have been making since Roe was decided in 1973. Critics of Roe long argued that the Court essentially invented a constitutional right that was never explicitly written into the Constitution and was never codified by Congress.
According to Cuomo, the real failure belonged to lawmakers. “The Congress should have codified Roe v. Wade,” Cuomo said. “But they were never going to. Why? Because it’s such a useful device to divide us, so helpful to the parties.”
That observation may be the most politically explosive part of his argument. For decades, both parties used abortion as one of Washington’s most reliable fundraising tools. Democrats repeatedly warned voters that Roe was hanging by a thread, while many Republicans campaigned on overturning it. Yet despite periods of unified Democratic control in Washington, Congress never codified Roe into federal law.
As Cuomo bluntly put it: “Dobbs was therefore the right decision.” The former CNN host made clear he was not celebrating the outcome. “I hate it,” Cuomo said, arguing that he personally supports abortion rights and believes women lost a right when Roe was overturned. “I believe that reproductive rights are a thing,” he said. “And that taking it from them was taking a right from women.”
Still, Cuomo maintained that personal preference and constitutional analysis are two different questions.
Well, well, well.
Chris Cuomo accidentally wandered into the conservative neighborhood and discovered something we’ve been saying since bell bottoms were fashionable.
Roe was always on shaky constitutional ground.
That’s not a radical position. That’s not MAGA. That’s not some right-wing conspiracy hatched in a basement.
Even liberal legal scholars spent years quietly admitting Roe’s legal reasoning was a mess. The funny part is that he said it out loud.
You could almost hear progressive activists dropping their oat-milk lattes across America.
Let’s be honest. If a conservative broadcaster had said exactly what Cuomo said, the media would spend three days explaining why he hates women, democracy, puppies and possibly the moon.
But Cuomo said it. And he’s right. He admitted Congress never codified Roe because it was politically useful. Now there’s a statement that deserves a standing ovation.
Washington politicians have spent decades using abortion as a campaign ATM. Every election was supposedly the most important election ever. Every fundraising email was a five-alarm constitutional emergency.
Yet somehow nobody managed to permanently solve the issue when they had the votes.
Of course, don’t expect many invitations for Cuomo to the next MSNBC wine-and-cheese gathering.
