Posted on 06/27/2022 3:46:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber
No sooner had the Supreme Court issued its Dobbs opinion then West Virginia’s sometimes-rational-Democrat senator Joe Manchin and senior Maine-Squish-Republican, senator Susan Collins, came out expressing their combined horror and indignation over the decision. They both went to say they were aghast that both Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch had apparently misrepresented to them, both in private meetings and during their hearings, that they would respect established precedent. The senators felt “betrayed” by the pair. Manchin was quoted as 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.” Collins in her statement said, “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.” What each of these senator’s statement reveals, without saying it out loud, was they thought they had a deal. What sort of deal? If you promise not to touch Roe, I will vote for your nomination. In short, the classic quid pro quo. By their comments it was obvious that both senators felt they had been “double-crossed” and they were none too happy about it.
Until Senator Ted Kennedy and his merry band of Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, which included the current occupant of the White House, decided, beginning with Robert Bork, then continuing with Clarence Thomas and most recently Brett Kavanaugh, that it was acceptable to try and totally destroy a nominee to prevent the confirmation, the hearings were a fairly humdrum affair.
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Can they find it in the constitution?
They haven’t actually read the Constitution, have they?
Just because they “respect precedent” does not make the court immovable. What if the court had wanted to decide for plaintiffs in Brown vs. Board, but felt compelled to respect the precedent of Plessy vs. Ferguson? What if the Frankfurt Court had refused to rehear the flag salute controversy, because they had already decided the year before that those J Witnesses had better pledge allegiance or else. Precedent should be respected, but not blindly followed in defiance of reality.
Both of these scumbags’ entire political careers are nothing but a big misrepresentation.
It was settled precedent.
But it was also not constitutional, and the propriety of the Court correcting even “settled” unconstitutional decisions has been established and reaffirmed by previous, settled decisions.
Sen. Collins I’m sure most of the time the majority of the good people of MAINE feel just as screwed as you do every time you cast a vote in the Senate.
Can we get a transcipt of the recorded conversation?
We got bamboozled by Roberts - apparently same thing where everyone thought he was voting against obamacare - even the person who typed up his opinion and then BAM, he changed his mind.
Welcome to the party, you freaking turncoats. I hope you cried yourself to sleep.
Gee, it is not like a perceived Republican installed SCOTUS judge every turned out to be a liberal. I’d list them all but why bother.
Manchin is a real dirtbag, despite a handful of convenient votes cast over the years. Out of State FReepers, take note. We don’t want him to join the Republican Party. We want him to become a FORMER Senator.
How many times have GOP appointed SCOTUS nominees lied and turned out to be communists?
Nothing about that.
Screw you Collins! You have been there too long.
Screw you Manchin! You enriched your daughter the the FDA
No, and they obviously have not read the majority opinion. Odd, since it has only changed superficially since its "release" on May 2. They complain they can't read bills in 24 hours... well, they've had almost 2 months.
Are you sure it’s safe to let those Japs out of the internment camp yet? They could be planning another sneak attack, and the Court decided in Hirabayashi that it was constitutional to lock them up. Precedent! Precedent! Without our precedent, we’d be as shaky as...as a President in June of the mid-terms.
Slavery was a precedent.
How does it feel to bee screwed when a judge turns on conservatism and the Constitution? This happens to Republicans all the time. I’d list the Republican installed judges but let just start with Roberts, who comes to mind first.
If Roberts had his way, he would have done the same thing here. In his concurrence, he did not want to completely overturn Roe but basically turn abortion into a circus where the SCOTUS would be deciding case after case of restrictions.
He is a horrible justice and not to be trusted.
Read? I think they missed that day in school.
#winning
50 years of RINO failure.
Trump delivered. Can’t wait for him to get back in soon.
Duplicity is the smaller of the crimes committed.
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