Republican Sen. Susan Collins slammed the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade reversal as "inconsistent" with their statements to her in meetings and private testimony.
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a pro-abortion rights Republican, said in a statement after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that the ruling was “inconsistent” with what Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh said during their confirmation testimony.
“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.
She allegedly voted for Brett Kavanaugh because he convinced her that he wouldn’t overturn Roe v. Wade. That makes her either a liar or the most gullible person in the Senate.
Hours after the Supreme Court issued its Friday ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and, with it, the constitutionally protected right to an abortion, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) sat down with the New York…
Short answer: Of course not. Neither Kavanaugh nor any other justice would pledge privately to rule a particular way in a future case. To do so would be unethical....
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