Posted on 08/21/2018 1:39:03 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh told Sen. Susan Collins on Tuesday that Roe v. Wade was “settled law,” the Maine Republican told reporters after their meeting.
Collins, a supporter of abortion rights, said she raised the issue with Kavanaugh, who is meeting with senators ahead of his confirmation hearings next month.
“We talked about whether he considered Roe to be settled law,” Collins said, referring to the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that established a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy.
Collins said Kavanaugh told her that he agreed with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who said during his 2005 confirmation hearing that Roe was “settled as a precedent of the court.” Collins and Kavanaugh, who serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, met for more than two hours Tuesday morning.
“He said that he agreed with what Justice Roberts said at his nomination hearing, in which he said it was settled law,” Collins said. “We had a very good, thorough discussion.”
The senator has not said whether she will support Kavanaugh, but she has also declined to offer strong criticism of President Trump’s nominee. With Republicans holding a slim 51-to-49 Senate majority, support from Collins and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) would ensure Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
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So was the fugutive slave act
Everything is settled law, til Scotus unsettles it!
Agree.
Whatever Collins needs to hear to make her vote to confirm Kavanaugh, I am okay with.
I think it is unlikely but I hope the conservative court will return the abortion matter to the states, where it belongs.
I would also like to see Planned Parenthood personnel charged with murder each and every time they perform an abortion after 23-24 weeks of gestation (the approximate date that an infant is viable to live outside the womb) (Planned Parenthood V Casey 1992)
My state (Louisiana) is one of the states who has a trigger law. If Roe V Wade is ever overturned, abortion will be banned.
that sounds reasonable to me.
abortion should, imho, be limited to extremely few cases (such as to save the life of the mother)
Kavanaugh can tell these people anything he things they want to hear so that’s he is confirmed. Just play the game.
Collins: “so you are OK with abortion?”
Kavanaugh: “sure ... the more the merrier (whatever bitch - just vote for me)
I hope that he votes to overturn Roe vs. Wade.
The life of each baby begins at conception.
Until Congress makes a law that grants the legal status of ‘person’ to unborn babies it is law.
Marriage was defined as a bond between a man and a woman in custom, belief, and law in the West for thousands of years until it wasn’t. Roe v. Wade is on life support as is gay marriage.
Lincoln had a few words to say about the “settled law” of Supreme Court decisions, when he spoke about Dredd Scott:
“If this important decision had been made by the unanimous concurrence of the judges, and without any apparent partisan bias, and in accordance with legal public expectation, and with the steady practice of the departments throughout our history, and had been in no part, based on assumed historical facts which are not really true; or, if wanting in some of these, it had been before the court more than once, and had there been affirmed and re-affirmed through a course of years, it then might be, perhaps would be, factious, nay, even revolutionary, to not acquiesce in it as a precedent.
But when, as it is true we find it wanting in all these claims to the public confidence, it is not resistance, it is not factious, it is not even disrespectful, to treat it as not having yet quite established a settled doctrine for the country...”
Roe was built on racism...Proposed as a way to keep the black population under control...
Marriage between a man and a woman was settled law for thousands of years before the SC said it wasn’t (two years after they said that marriage was a state issue, which made that settled law).
The Supremes are not going to hear any challenges to Roe until Ruth gets replaced. Probably one other leftist as well. It needs to be a 7-2 decision at least.
Settled law exists only in the exact words of our Constitution. All other laws are negotiable and frequently eliminated or created by the legislatures.
Since we have a legal system based on precedence law, law is never settled.
JoMa
oh you mean like slavery was settled law?
Libtard rino idiots.
Since Democrats recognize a legal system based on precedence law only when it agrees with their ideology, law is never settled.
If she’s “retired” it’s far more likely to be at the hands of a democrap that makes her look like Jesse Helms than by someone to her right.
It’s ok to tell the broad whatever she needs to hear.
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