'If this leaked draft opinion is the final decision and this reporting is accurate, it would be completely inconsistent with what Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh said in their hearings and in our meetings in my office,' Collins says in statement.
, all eyes were once again on Republican Sen. Susan Collins Tuesday over her support for Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation.-- showed the court is poised to topple the landmark 1973 decision legalizing abortion across the U.S.Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, FILE
"Several of these conservative Justices, who are in no way accountable to the American people, have lied to the U.S. Senate, ripped up the Constitution and defiled both precedent and the Supreme Court's reputation -- all at the expense of tens of millions of women who could soon be stripped of their bodily autonomy and the constitutional rights they've relied on for half a century," Schumer and Pelosi said in a joint statement Monday night.
"As a judge it is an important precedent of the Supreme Court," he replied."By 'it,' I mean Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, been affirmed many times. Casey is precedent on precedent."Judge Neil Gorsuch testifies during the third day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, March 22, 2017, in Washington.
The House of Representatives passed the Women's Health Protection Act to codify abortion rights in September 2021 but the bill has failed to move forward in the Senate.
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