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Sen. Susan Collins: Abortion ruling ‘inconsistent’ with what Gorsuch, Kavanaugh told me
The Hill ^ | 06/24/22 1:01 PM ET | BY ALEXANDER BOLTON

Posted on 06/25/2022 12:12:42 AM PDT by RandFan

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Friday said conservative Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch misled her about their views on the importance of Supreme Court precedent during their confirmation proceedings in 2017 and 2018.

Collins, who voted to confirm then-President Trump’s first two conservative nominees to the court despite her support for abortion rights, has said she believed those justices would hold up important precedents such as Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion. A court majority that included Kavanaugh and Gorsuch struck down that right on Friday.

“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, explaining her votes for those nominees during the Trump administration.

Collins joined Democrats Friday in denouncing the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

“The Supreme Court has abandoned a fifty-year precedent at a time that the country is desperate for stability,” she said in a statement. “This ill-considered action will further divide the country at a moment when, more than ever in modern times, we need the Court to show both consistency and restraint.”

Collins argued that “throwing out a precedent overnight that the country has relied upon for half a century is not conservative.”

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: abortion; bidenvoters; brettkavanaugh; gorsuch; kavanaugh; neilgorsuch; roevswade; roevwade; scotus; senate; supremecourt; susancollins
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To: RandFan

This woman has to go. Why say anything even IF it’s the truth? She is an idiot and a liberal that’s no longer in disguise.


61 posted on 06/25/2022 6:27:04 AM PDT by JoJo354 (Freedom first. MAGA forever!)
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To: JoJo354

RINOs all must be purged, every single last one of them.


62 posted on 06/25/2022 6:30:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Chicory

Dred Scot was once precedence...


Yes it was. To ‘fix’ it, 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments were passed. If the pro-abortion crowd really want abortion to be a ‘Constitutional right’, simply get 2/3rds of each house of Congress to propose the amendment and get 38 states to ratify it.


63 posted on 06/25/2022 7:29:42 AM PDT by hanamizu
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As EVERYONE gets older the memory develops gaps and holes. The natural, subconscious repair sequence is the consciousness fills in those blanks with whatever produces the least amount of “injury”.


64 posted on 06/25/2022 8:28:26 AM PDT by USCG SimTech ( )
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To: RandFan

Biden never ran for election on he wanted to do. All it was was the soul of America and unity and now look at what we have.

Manchin and Collins need to chill out.


65 posted on 06/25/2022 10:33:14 AM PDT by MAKOTHEDOG
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