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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Roe v. Wade was not IN FACT precedent. Precedent was in the states. And at one point, abortion was illegal in every state in the country.
Collins needs to write and pass R v. W legislation, not complain about Judicial legislation being disappeared.
She needs to do her job, not whine.
Penumbra-created law is not a precedent, and no badly made law should be considered precedent for future decisions.
Zactly...
she continues to mislead everyone that she is a republican
The world would be so much a better place if Sen. Susan Collins would self abort.
It is just what I was going to write. However, what you said was done perfectly.
Notice both Collins and Manchin can’t specifically state that Gorsuch and Kavanaugh didn’t state they wouldn’t overturn Roe V Wade, but expressed a desire to respect long-standing law. That doesn’t mean RvW wasn’t on shaky legal ground, as Ginsburg herself said. As such, it deserved a review of its constitutionality. That issue is now where it belongs.. with the legislators and voters of the individual states.
*can’t specifically state that Gorsuch and Kavanaugh stated…
Libs are using that point of view on Facebook to advocate to impeach justices or expand the court.
Way toooooooo many RINOs in this country, way too many.
For once Susan was the People’s useful idiot instead of the other way around! BTW I don’t believe any of this “aww shucks this isn’t what I expected” for one Maine minute - it’s stuff like this which is why Collins has kept that seat for so long.
We would still have slavery if wrongly decided laws stood
the test of time just for having stupid longevity.
Just like “old Shakey Collins” has been Rino Wrong for far
too long and should resign and tend to her failing health.
Dred Scot was once precedence...
Liar.
You’re just trying to do damage control to your image.
Its stupid of Man chin and Collins to ask how a judge would rule on a case before hearing all the evidence given. If a nominee were to actually do that, they should be shut down immediately and their application canned.
I suppose they have to say this for political purposes.
Not a surprise. Unprincipled hacks.
Like many elder politicians they’re are showing cognitive deficiencies in processing simply answers to questions.
Sort of like her voting record is almost always inconsistent with the oath of office she swore to.
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