Susan Collins Downplays Brett Kavanaugh Email About Abortion Rights And 'Settled Law'
Source: huffpot
09/06/2018 04:58 pm ET Updated 55 minutes ago
Democrats said the 2003 email confirmed their fears that Trump’s Supreme Court nominee would overturn Roe v. Wade.
WASHINGTON ― Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Thursday downplayed the significance of a newly released email written by Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, which touched on the landmark abortion rights decision Roe v. Wade.
In an email written in March 2003, Kavanaugh, then an official in the George W. Bush White House, questioned the idea that “all legal scholars” view the Roe decision as “settled law” given that the high court “can always overrule its precedent, and three current Justices on the Court would do so.”
Democrats said the 15-year-old document, which was made public on Thursday during Kavanaugh’s third day of confirmation hearings, confirmed their fears that Trump’s nominee would vote to overturn abortion rights given the chance.
Holding up a printed copy of the email, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) urged undecided Republicans who support abortion rights to “read this document and then tell me Judge Kavanaugh has been candid with you” about his views on Roe. On Wednesday, Kavanaugh had called that 1973 decision “settled” and an “important precedent of the Supreme Court that has been reaffirmed many times.”
But Collins, who is one of those undecided Republicans, voiced skepticism that Kavanaugh had taken a personal position on Roe in the 2003 email. The moderate senator said Thursday that she had not yet read the document, but from what she had been told, it did not appear to be disqualifying. ..................................
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Women and families are so doomed.
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Sen. Susan Collins suggested the newly released Kavanaugh email on Roe v. Wade wasn't a big deal.
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its just fine and dandy that a man" can basically lie to your face when you have him visit you in your "senate office" and then you turn right around and tell the American public that you would not vote for someone that will overturn a law that protects woman's right to choice..................but then tonight you side with fucking LIARS, you have no fucking "Principles" .
So senator Collins do you want one of your constitutes to come down to your office and re-read what this asshole said, in the document and then you can explain what he said then and what he said today.....................and then let the constitute(s) explain what it means to them..........................or do you just don't give a shit......................
And you do understand right that this asshole thinks that every government agency , that, we the public fund, should be dismantled and have no heads running those agencies...................this Federalist Society POS, that thinks the Constitution is worthless, and that they the tory Federalist Society still are pissed off that they lost the Revolutionary War.....................
