The Scipio Files · argument map
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, decided June 24, 2022, five votes to four to overrule Roe and Casey outright, six to three on the judgment. Four documents spanning 1973 to 2022, Roe, Casey, Dobbs, and the Finnis-George amicus brief, argue past each other across six contested questions. Hover a card to see the assumption underneath it, click it for the full exchange, and ask yourself which last words earned their silence.
Color marks the side of the volley, not who is right. Roberts's concurrence (gray) breaks from both sides only once, in the viability lane, it is a single position, not a persistent third column.
A caution before you count silences. Whether a side holds the last recorded word in a lane usually reflects the order the opinions were filed in, dissents are drafted last and answer everything ahead of them, not which argument was stronger. In this dataset the abortion-rights side holds 11 of 16 last words despite the Court deciding this case 6-3 to overrule Roe and Casey, 5-4 on the majority's full reasoning. That imbalance is not explained by opinion length here: the joint dissent runs 66 slip pages against the majority's 108. A last word marks where the exchange stopped, not who won it.
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