They were simply telling the truth. They believed then that Roe vs. Wade was settled legal precedent just as they believed that Plessy vs. Ferguson was settled legal precedent before it was properly reversed.
So what.
Posted on 06/24/2022 11:51:44 PM PDT by Morgana
U.S. Senators Joe Manchin and Susan Collins slammed Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch for their votes in overturning Roe v Wade on Friday.
The senators had voted to confirm the Donald Trump appointed justices despite fears that they would overtrun the landmark abortion ruling, with the senators saying at the time that they trusted Kavanaugh and Gorsuch to uphold the law.
Now Collins, a Republican, and Manchin, a Democrat, are accusing the justices of misleading them as they criticized the court's 5-4 ruling to end women's federal right to an abortion.
'This decision is inconsistent with what Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh said in their testimony and their meetings with me, where they both were insistent on the importance of supporting long-standing precedents that the country has relied upon,' Collins said in a statement.
Manchin echoed the outrage, saying: 'I trusted Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh when they testified under oath that they also believed Roe v. Wade was settled legal precedent and I am alarmed they chose to reject the stability the ruling has provided for two generations of Americans.'
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You mean like dummy Ruth Ginsberg of Ruth Sent Me fame misled Congress during her confirmation hearing that she had an open mind when it came to the abortion issue. Of course, no one believed the lying sleazebag anyway.
they’re not supposed to even ask questions which will even indicate how they will rule.
Roe v Wade was not precedent in fact....Precedent lay with the states. And at one point, abortion was illegal in every state.
When you scratch the surface, Manchin always was and always will be a Democrat whose hands are tied in a Republican state from doing wildly progressive things. West Virginia needs to get rid of him. A Republican senator replacing him will avoid all the drama of whether he will be voting with the Republicans or Democrats on the really important fiscal issues.
Don’t worry, I’m going to write them a letter saying “tough titties”.
They are liars. The left has vehemently ruled that NO LITMUS TESTS are allowed in Senate confirmation questioning.
Does Sen Manchin want the long standing precedent of Roe v Wade restored?
The lefties had no problem reversing Bowers v Hardwick
Just the day before, some female argued that gun control was legal because they used single shot muskets in 1787. In 1787, abortion was illegal in every state of the United States.
I agree and I’m sick of him
Voted for gun control too. Just like Sinema. All Democrats and a third of the Republicans suck.
“…the stability the ruling has provided for two generations of Americans.’
Interesting choice of words.. what about the lost generations of aborted babies?
There’s some serious damage control.
Voters there are largely dumber than a box of rocks. WV has similiar proprietary politics like Kentucky. They still think it is 1935 and they want both guns AND food stamps.
They were simply telling the truth. They believed then that Roe vs. Wade was settled legal precedent just as they believed that Plessy vs. Ferguson was settled legal precedent before it was properly reversed.
So what.
Their opinion “Evolved”. Whats wrong with that Joe? Obviously your Religion “Evolved”!!! One day you will answer for that!
So privately Senators are asking for specific vote guarantees when interviewing nominees, then expecting that the USSC Justices must hold ever after to what they understood such promises to entail?
Somehow that’s not how I read the Constitution.
*If that is what is going on, I’d suggest the much ballyhooed, private, office-by-office “meetings” of nominees with individual Senators be ended, and all such “meetings” be part of the public hearing process.
Well, at the time, it was settled law.
Now it is not.
See how easy that is !
I remember well, Joe Manchin won his first election by touting his 2nd Amendment support. So, Joe, who is the real deceiver in all of this?
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