Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh walked a careful line as Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) questioned him about his views on Supreme Court decisions establishing abortion rights.
“As a judge, it is an important precedent of the Supreme Court,” he said, while discussing both Roe v. Wade, and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which reaffirmed the constitutional right to an abortion.
Feinstein had asked him whether he viewed Roe as “settled law.”
He called it “settled as a precedent of the Supreme Court entitled to respect under stare decisis.”
Kavanaugh started going over the details of the Casey decision, until Feinstein attempted to return to his own views and how they might have changed since he worked in the George W. Bush administration.
“I understand how passionate and how deeply people feel about this issue,” Kavanaugh says on abortion rights. “I don’t live in a bubble.”
“I understand how passionate and how deeply people feel about this issue,” Kavanaugh says on abortion rights. “I don’t live in a bubble.”
Feinstein was a weak questioner. She let him go at the end, not pointedly asking him if the President of the US is subjected to the same laws as everyone else.
Plessy was a SCOTUS precedent, until it wasn’t.
I’m imagining a physicist being interviewed about special relativity and saying similar things. We’d think such a physicist was bonkers. Kavanaugh: objectively pro-dead-women.
Let me finish that for you, Judge Kavanaugh. Dredd Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson were also settled precedents ‘entitled to respect under stare decisis’. Given your beliefs and your previous writings on the subject, you would vote to overturn Roe as wrongly decided.