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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsManchin says he trusted Gorsuch and Kavanaugh....and is disappointed
Manchin said he's "deeply disappointed" in the justices.
"I trusted Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh when they testified under oath that they also believed Roe v. Wade was settled legal precedent and I am alarmed they chose to reject the stability the ruling has provided for two generations of Americans," he said.
Kavanaugh and Gorsuch provided critical votes to assemble a Supreme Court majority to eliminate Roe v. Wade.
Critics of Manchin and Collins described them as naive, if not willfully ignorant of what some said at the time was the likely endgame if the two conservatives were added to the court.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/collins-manchin-misled-kavanaugh-gorsuch-abortion-rights-rcna35230
madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)and makes shallow and specious arguments makes it even worse.
I think not so willful ignorance is more accurate.
mitch96
(13,912 posts)Coventina
(27,121 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Dangnation, they surely would have vote not to confirm these lying, perjurying liars. Boy, they wouldn't have been taken in then, boy!
OAITW r.2.0
(24,506 posts)Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)RockRaven
(14,974 posts)them in such contempt that he would utter it in their direction (on top of every other reason to be offended by him, that is).
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,617 posts)Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)Ahahah Choooo!
BeyondGeography
(39,375 posts)Doesnt he?
dalton99a
(81,526 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)Always has been, and always has excuses to vote against issues with the Democrat, and is the one who can never be trusted.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)Nope. Sorry. Not buying it.
I don't think for a second either of these United States Senators were so gullible they actually believed Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. They are talking out both sides of their mouths, plain and simple.
brush
(53,792 posts)He back stabbed at every turn.
Lancero
(3,004 posts)We should be thanking god that he's a Democrat, and that he alone was preventing Republicans from ripping away womens rights.
Joe Manchin is no differient that Jill Stein. And nether, for that matter, are their supporters.
alwaysinasnit
(5,066 posts)arthritisR_US
(7,288 posts)cowards looking for political payback from their RW feck wads
DFW
(54,412 posts)What about concerned? Isn't he at least concerned as well? Hasn't Susan Collins taught him anything?
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Emile
(22,792 posts)he is so disappointed he would support doing away with the filibuster.
PuraVidaDreamin
(4,101 posts)Disappointed huh?
Is that what one says when democracy has lost?
tanyev
(42,572 posts)IngridsLittleAngel
(1,962 posts)Ironically enough, many of us trusted you and have been nothing but disappointed.