Abortion would be banned in flyover country, but Nancy don't care about those "hicks".
Posted on 07/17/2018 11:41:09 PM PDT by Morgana
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that a vote for President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, is a vote to “destroy Roe v. Wade.” Pelosi added that a Democratic congress “can stop much of the Supreme Court’s awful assaults,” citing the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act signed in 2009 by then-President Obama.
“A vote for Judge Kavanaugh is a vote to destroy Roe v. Wade,” Pelosi said during a press conference with abortion groups and the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus. “It’s a vote to roll back a generation of progress for women and their families. But we don’t agonize, we organize because we know that a Democratic Congress can stop much of the Supreme Court’s awful assaults.”
Pelosi cited the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act which directly addressed the Supreme Court’s decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. regarding when the statute of limitations for presenting an equal-pay lawsuit begins.
“Congress has a role to mitigate for damage caused by the court and we have to assert that right,” she emphasized.
During the event, Pelosi did not specifically call for every Supreme Court nominee to express support for Roe v. Wade as many abortion groups and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) have done. Instead, she claimed that Kavanaugh did not respect precedent.
“We have to work to say that we shouldn’t be appointing someone to the court that does not support stare decisis – previous decisions of the court,” she said.
While declining to give his personal views on the matter, Kavanaugh has already said, when he was confirmed to the D.C. Circuit in 2006, that he would “follow Roe v. Wade faithfully and fully. That would be binding precedent of the court. It has been decided by the Supreme Court.”
Pelosi also baselessly argued that Kavanaugh’s nomination posed a risk to “everything” including the landmark civil rights decision, Brown v. Board of Education, which outlawed racial segregation in public schools.
“Because of some of the comments that Justice Kavanaugh has made, and others, it is important to note that everything is at risk,” she claimed, “Roe v. Wade, a woman’s right to choose, Brown v. Board of Education, civil rights, environmental issues, gun safety the list goes on and on.”
Pelosi concluded with the claim, challenged by a Washington Post fact check, that Kavanaugh said a sitting president is “above the law” and cannot be indicted.
Abortion would be banned in flyover country, but Nancy don't care about those "hicks".
The spectacle of senility in Democrats is so sad.
Yeah, I’m pretty OK with that.
Abortion is a horrendous evil and is in NO WAY progress!
In other words, Pelosi admits that Roe v. Wade was not a Constitutional decision, and is therefore susceptible to being overturned by Constitutional judges.
The left wants to eradicate all freedom and micromanage every aspect of our lives, but we’re supposed to think we’re free just because we can have unprotected sex any time we want and get other people to pay for killing any kids that result. No, thanks.
[[Calls Abortion “Progress for Women”]]
It certainly isn’t progress for unborn HUMAN babies
Poor Pervy Pelosi Bump.
Overturning Roe will not make abortion illegal at the Federal level.
If murdering of a baby is “Progress for Women” better sleep with one eye open you may be next.
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