Despite all of the warning signs, Kavanaugh was confirmed. Now he’s trying to roll back basic rights
Brett Kavanaugh went after women’s reproductive rights this week, just months after being placed on the US supreme court. He tried to stop the court from blocking a Louisiana law, which would severely restrict access to abortion in the state. He didn’t quite make it, this time, but only because Chief Justice John Roberts was unwilling to overturn the court’s precedent set just two years earlier in a nearly identical case in Texas. But, still, there was Kavanaugh, who shouldn’t have been on the bench in the first place, weighing in. And, that’s a problem.
Without question, the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings were the sub-prime mortgage of US supreme court nominee vetting. The results will likely be equally disastrous.
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