Top Judiciary Dem Pivots To Concerns About Kavanaugh’s Record on Abortion Rights, Guns

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While Democrats had spent most of the start of Tuesday’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh complaining about the lack of transparency in the process, the top Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat in her opening remarks turned her concerns to his views on abortion rights.

“The impact of overturning Roe is much broader than a woman’s right to choose. It’s about protecting the most personal decisions we all make from government intrusion,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said, referencing the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide.

Feinstein then moved on to Kavanaugh’s record on gun rights, and opinions he’s written adopting broad view on what gun control laws should be deemed unconstitutional.

“If the Supreme Court were to adopt your reason, I fear the number of victims would continue to grow and citizens would be rendered powerless” in enacting gun laws, she said.

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  1. I didn’t hear Feinstein’s comment but it sounds like the same issue I raised with the wife this morning. If Kavanaugh and the other four Justices in the conservative bloc are united in their belief that Roe was improperly decided because there is no implied right to privacy in the Constitution then abortion rights, gay marriage, LGBT rights in general, and every other personal rights issue will get kicked back to the states to regulate absent an overarching federal protection. Which is exactly what the GOP has been waiting for and why they are in a hurry to confirm Kavanaugh. Equal protection under the law will now mean that every member of a persecuted class will be equally discriminated against.

  2. Especially like the DIRECTION Sen Leahy went, but he oughtta quoted Aretha:

    You’re a no good
    Word breaker
    You’re a liar
    And you’re a cheat
    And I ain’t forgettin.
    How last time you’s here
    You told all them
    Pretty lies to me
    So lemme tell YOU now
    I ain’t never
    I ain’t Never
    I ain’t NEVER
    NO no
    Vote to confirm
    Your unsorry ass
    For no Soo Preme seat

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