Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ted Lieu ask Senate for clarity: Did Gorsuch, Kavanaugh lie about Roe?

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WASHINGTON – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., have asked the Senate to clarify whether Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch lied under oath about their stand on abortion during their confirmation hearings.

In a joint letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer issued Monday, the lawmakers said "multiple" Supreme Court justices "misled the American people during their confirmation hearings about their views on Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood."

The letter accuses "at least" Kavanaugh and Gorsuch of not telling the truth.

The legislators said, "it is impossible to reconcile the sweeping majority opinion in Dobbs with the statements made by Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh during their confirmation hearings."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ted-lieu-ask-senate-for-clarity-did-gorsuch-kavanaugh-lie-about-roe/ar-AAZuLh4

Yes as did Sam Alito.

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1. Chuck? Oh, Chuuuuuuck!!! Yoo hoo!

[Blue Owl]

2. K&R

[Novara]

3. Why? What do they intend to do about it?

I'm at a loss to understand what they can do about this.

I mean, it's a feel-good for Democrats but other than that, probably not very useful in practical terms.

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4. Laying the ground work for a perjury charge?

Get people used to the idea that lying during a candidate's confirmation hearing is a serious matter?

Buttress the argument that rulings from the Roberts Court are as illegitimate as the justices issuing them?

You can't fashion a wall with one brick, but if you lay enough of them together, you'll get there.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. Exactly. If enough Roe, Roe, Roe their vote, we might even get to impeachment.

That's a lot of bricks in the future, but not impossible.

Meanwhile, things like this get a headline and therefore some more people get informed about real things instead of Faux things.

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13. THIS.

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5. We

all know thomas lied bigly about Anita Hill.

[Polybius]

6. Does anyone know what Thomas said about Roe in 1991?

I'm sure he was asked, I just want to see if he lied, told the truth, or said something like "I can't say, there are cases that will go before the court."

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7. So did Clarence,

oh so long ago. Uncle Clarence played the long con, uh, I mean, game.

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9. Those Anita Hill hearings were absolutely awful to

watch. Everyone knew Thomas was guilty as sin


But Boys Will Be Boys.

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10. It's my understanding that when they would say "settled law"

It’s my understanding that when any potential appointee would say “settled law” or “stare decisis”, that didn’t mean they thought it was the law always and forever or that the current precedent was the final word on the issue. It meant it was viewed as the current law, but that wasn’t a promise that it would always stay current law, that if a better argument came along then things could change.

And I don’t remember that series of questions being asked except for the topic of Roe, but I could be mistaken.

But is anything ever a law that can’t be overruled by a court, and more specifically the USSC? No, I never believed that.

Despite the opinions of some, these people are very intelligent and they no doubt had a team of other attorneys who made sure they spoke in their confirmation hearings in such a way that can be explained and keep them from being dismissed. They’re there to stay.

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16. Exactly

Settled law is only settled until it isn't, which is why priorities should be codified.

And stare decisis is not, or has it ever been, ironclad. Any justice who believes a precedent, any precedent, was wrongly decided is not bound by that precedent.

And no nominee ever, to my knowledge, has said that they wouldn't overturn Roe v. Wade, or conversely, that they would not; to do so would have been to prejudge a case yet to be heard.

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11. Recommended.

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12. KnR

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14. K&R

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15. K&R.