The two centrist senators slammed the Supreme Court's decision to eliminate abortion rights after they voted to confirm Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch to the court.
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Kavanaugh told the Senate at his 2018 confirmation hearing that the Roe decision "is important precedent of the Supreme Court that has been reaffirmed many times." Gorsuch, at his 2017 hearing, said of Roe that "a good judge will consider it as precedent of the U.S. Supreme Court."
Did they
really think that Kavanaugh and Gorsuch wouldn't jump at the chance to overturn Roe?
And why is Coney-Barrett exempt from their ire? What's the point? Are they trying to satisfy as many constituents as possible by straddling the fence?
Roe v Wade was an important precedent, and the reasoning of Roe v Wade had already been overturned by Planned Parenthood v Casey. So.... yes, you know, lots of cases are "important precedent" which were overturned.
And, when a good judge considers a case as precedent, that's not the end of the analysis and never has been.
If the judges meant to say "I would not overrule under any circumstances," then they would say so. The statements you just posted clearly are, literally, that the judge would properly consider them as important precedent in analyzing any case.
U.S. Supreme Court in Seminole Tribe v Florida explained that the rule regarding following precedent is not an “inexorable command.” When prior decisions are “unworkable or are badly reasoned,” then the Supreme Court may not follow precedent, and this is “particularly true in constitutional cases.” For example, in deciding Brown v Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court explicitly renounced Plessy v Ferguson thereby refusing to apply clear past precedent.
So, the reality is that this "Kavanaugh and Gorsuch lied" bit is complete and utter bullshit. They didn't lie. They said exactly the legal standard used for Supreme Court precedent and everyone knows it. Everyone knows that precedents are guides for the Supreme Court. They are important, and they are generally to be followed, but the Court's hands are not tied behind its back, required to always follow precedent no matter what. And that has always been the case, Democrats know it, and Democrats are AGAIN lying about what people say in order to control a propaganda narrative.
Don't let them fool you. This is like their bullshit that "Trump said Nazis are very fine people!!!" - he never did, and that has been proven incontrovertably. He's on video and the text of is speech is there for all to see, but Democrats lie all the time about it. Same here - Gorsuch and Kavanaugh simply did not say what Democrats are trying to convince the country they said. And, the Democrats will shamelessly do it even though the transcripts are there, and even though the statements like the ones above clearly do NOT say what the Democrats want us to think they say. Master gaslighters and hoodwinkers.
