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Kavanaugh questioned if Roe v. Wade was 'settled law' in leaked email
The Hill ^

Posted on 09/06/2018 8:21:13 AM PDT by TigerClaws

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh questioned in 2003 if Roe v. Wade was "settled" law during his time in the White House counsel, according to emails given to the New York Times.

Kavanaugh, in an email obtained by the newspaper, proposed deleting a line out of the draft of an opinion piece that said “it is widely accepted by legal scholars across the board that Roe v. Wade and its progeny are the settled law of the land."

Kavanaugh, according to the email, questioned if legal scholars did agree that Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that established the right to an abortion, was settled.

"I am not sure that all legal scholars refer to Roe as the settled law of the land at the Supreme Court level since Court can always overrule its precedent, and three current Justices on the Court would do so," Kavanaugh wrote according to the Times.

The email was part of a batch of "committee confidential" documents given to the Times. The "committee confidential" blocks the emails from being released or discussed publicly.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New Jersey; US: New York
KEYWORDS: abortion; brettkavanaugh; corybooker; kavanaughhearing; kavanaughhearingday3; maga; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; roevwade; scotus
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This Booker’s leak?
1 posted on 09/06/2018 8:21:13 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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Nah, Booker’s leak had something to do with police profiling.


2 posted on 09/06/2018 8:23:05 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TigerClaws

Probably. No law is “settled” law anymore in the American legal system.


3 posted on 09/06/2018 8:23:11 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: TigerClaws

2003 Kavanaugh was correct, incidentally, just as a matter of fact.


4 posted on 09/06/2018 8:25:56 AM PDT by babble-on
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Isn’t it ironic and hypocritical of Dems to insist on a “living, breathing, malleable Constitution” that can be changed on any whim on the one hand, but insist that some laws must be “settled and immutable forevermore” on the other hand.

Maybe someday a Republican will call them out on their sheer hypocrisy.


5 posted on 09/06/2018 8:27:03 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: TigerClaws

Are these part of the documents the bush team released on Tuesday?


6 posted on 09/06/2018 8:27:10 AM PDT by JoSixChip (He is Batman!)
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To: TigerClaws

Roe v. Wade... The 3rd Rail of PC...


7 posted on 09/06/2018 8:27:42 AM PDT by Dubh_Ghlase
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Booker has become the Kappernick of the Senate.


8 posted on 09/06/2018 8:27:57 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: TigerClaws

Nothing wrong with his speculation in the email. It is common legal practice to question rulings and to muse about their ramifications.

Also, what bill was signed into law that legalized abortion?


9 posted on 09/06/2018 8:29:31 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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“Are these part of the documents the bush team released on Tuesday?”

This just confirms what I have been thinking about the Bush’s lately.


10 posted on 09/06/2018 8:29:56 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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Still, if I was Kanvanaugh I would say, Strzok-like, that I cannot discuss classified matters with the committee without endangering both executive privilege and the nation’s security.


11 posted on 09/06/2018 8:30:53 AM PDT by jyo19
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To: TigerClaws

And we wonder why our children are unruly and act out.


12 posted on 09/06/2018 8:32:10 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: jyo19

That would be a fantastic retort.


13 posted on 09/06/2018 8:32:14 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: TigerClaws

He didn’t even say he wasn’t sure. He said he was unsure that others were sure. effing dems. close the hearing down and vote him in. i want to see some balls from the GOP for once besides from our President who is the only one who seems to have any. oops, forgot Pelosi.


14 posted on 09/06/2018 8:32:37 AM PDT by sappy (criminaldems)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Many Republicans call out Democrat hypocrisy and do so today.

It doesn’t matter.

The only thing that arrests and reverses the disease of leftist progressivism is the continued winning of elections.

This year each of us must get ourselves to the polls and take 10 others with us.


15 posted on 09/06/2018 8:35:37 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V (Proud Member of the Deranged Q Fringe))
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To: TigerClaws
Roe v. Wade is a long-standing precedent, and long-standing precedents should not be lightly or often disturbed. But Plessy v. Ferguson stood longer than Roe has stood, and it was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education.
16 posted on 09/06/2018 8:35:52 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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Good grief. This is complete fake news/spin from The Hill. And the left wonders why they are perceived as biased?
Read the article. He didn’t say Roe wasn’t settled law, he questioned whether it was accurate to say that “all legal scholars refer to Roe as the settled law of the land at the Supreme Court level since Court can always overrule its precedent, and three current Justices on the Court would do so.” It says nothing about K’s opinion of the case, just whether an assertion about how all legal scholars felt was accurate.


17 posted on 09/06/2018 8:37:15 AM PDT by Consistent
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And up until about a second ago it was settled law that a marriage was between a man and a woman. Obama told me so.


18 posted on 09/06/2018 8:40:30 AM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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Left wing Hill pushing more fake new crap .

The Hill is pure leftist fake new pr .


19 posted on 09/06/2018 8:42:33 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists out themselves ever ti)
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To: TigerClaws

Referencing third Parties “Legal Scholars” in a discussion is now Taboo?


20 posted on 09/06/2018 8:47:20 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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