Regarding the Letter to the Editor defaming the Trump appointees to the U.S. Supreme Court, “[i]f you put a dress on a pig, it’s still a pig. Just sayin’.” (“SCOTUS is taking us back in time,” published July 5).

Let’s put a dunce cap on that pig too. Why? Because the Dobbs decision did not ban abortion. It merely returned to the People of each state and their legislatures the right to control abortion within their borders.

This is in total keeping with the U.S. Constitution regarding enumerated powers; namely, the Tenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, a part of the Bill of Rights, expresses the principle of federalism, also known as states’ rights, by stating that the federal government has only those powers delegated to it by the Constitution, and that all other powers not forbidden to the states by the Constitution are reserved to each state.

I suggest that the writer of that letter to the editor has neither read the Dobbs decision nor the Constitution. If he had, he would recognize that there is no authority under the U.S. Constitution for a national abortion law. Just sayin’.

Inez Petersen

Enumclaw