So where’s the irony? RBG, loved by so many, who spoke so eloquently about freedom and women’s rights, is the one person who took them away.
That she didn’t retire during Obama’s presidency, which would have meant that a freedom-loving liberal justice replace her, instead stayed the course and died during Trump’s turn at the wheel, allowing him to nominate Brett Kavanaugh to the bench, turning the Supreme Court into a Conservative rubber stamp for the right wing. Kavanaugh, or course, and Amy Barrett have claimed that the Supreme Court was apolitical, have, through their votes, confirmed that it isn’t.
Here’s milquetoast Senator Susan Collins: "What Judge Kavanaugh told me — and he's the first Supreme Court nominee that I've interviewed, out of six, who has told me this — is that he views precedent not just as a legal doctrine, but as rooted in our Constitution," Collins says. As he said during his confirmation hearing, Kavanaugh reiterated to Collins that Roe v. Wade, which was affirmed by the Supreme Court in a 1992 case, is "a precedent on a precedent."
In 2017, Gorsuch, too, referred to Roe as precedent. "A good judge will consider it as precedent of the United States Supreme Court, worthy of treatment as precedent, like any other," Gorsuch said at the time.
To reiterate a quote from the former guy: “Sad.”
And adding to that sadness is the myopic approach of the so-called Right to Lifers. What do I do to counteract the faux Christian polices of same? #6.
