Justice & Law Quote by Jay Alan Sekulow

Sekulow’s move here is lawyerly misdirection disguised as procedural sobriety. By chastising “they” for obsessing over how John Roberts will decide Roe, he’s not merely correcting pundit chatter; he’s trying to shrink the battlefield. The line “That isn’t even the right question” is a classic reframing tactic: if you can redefine what counts as relevant, you can make public anxiety look naive and make your preferred outcome seem like neutral process.

The real tell is the pivot to docket mechanics: “I don’t even know of a case…that addresses it.” On the surface, it’s a technocrat’s reminder that courts rule on cases, not abstractions. Subtextually, it’s an attempt to launder a highly charged political project through the language of institutional limitation. If there’s no “case” about Roe, then worrying about Roe becomes, in this framing, hysteria.

Context matters. Sekulow spent years in the conservative legal movement, where the long game wasn’t usually to announce “We will overturn Roe tomorrow,” but to chip away through incremental cases: parental consent, clinic regulations, funding limits, viability standards. The point isn’t that Roe is suddenly irrelevant; it’s that Roe can be hollowed out without ever being “addressed” head-on, until one day the doctrine is effectively gone and the movement can insist it was just jurisprudence doing its slow, apolitical work.

It’s strategic calm meant to sound like realism: reassure allies, scold critics, and keep the focus off the endgame.