Vice President Harris said Monday that he “never believed” the testimony of Supreme Court justices Brett M. Kavanaugh and Neil M. Gorsuch in the Senate, in which they stressed the importance of legal precedent in cases such as Roe vs. Wadewhich established a constitutional right to abortion. “I never believed them. I did not believe them. That’s why I voted against them, “Harris told CNN. Days after the Supreme Court overturned the 1973 ruling, paving the way for states to drastically reduce or ban abortion access, Harris did not say whether she believed the judges deliberately misled the public and Congress into confirmation proceedings. . “Listen, it was clear to me when I was sitting in this chair as a member of the Senate Justice Committee that it was… very likely that they would do what they just did. That was my point of view. That was my opinion, “he added. “And that’s why I voted as I voted.” Harris also referred to the assent of Judge Clarence Thomas, in which he called on the Supreme Court to reconsider LGBTQ rights and contraception cases. “I know this is not over. I accept. “I think he just said the quiet part out loud,” Harris said of Thomas. What Conservative judges said about Roe at their affirmative hearings Cavanaugh, nominated by President Donald Trump and confirmed in 2018 by a vote of 50 to 48 in the Senate, testified that Roe was a “significant precedent of the Supreme Court that has been confirmed many times”. However, during oral hearings in the case that led to of roe Undoing it, he indicated that he would be open to overturning the “established law”, citing a list of “seriously erroneous” Supreme Court rulings that were later overturned. At Gorsuch’s confirmation hearing in 2017, he testified Roe he was “a precedent for the US Supreme Court” and said he would “go out the door” if Trump had asked him to overthrow him because “judges do not do that”. Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Joe Manchin III (DW.Va.) said the two judges misunderstood their views on Roe in their statements and in private assurances during their nomination proceedings. Collins said she felt misled after voting in favor of the judges, two of the three Trump candidates who gave the court a conservative majority of 6 to 3. Susan Collins says Gorsuch and Kavanaugh’s testimony ‘does not comply’ with verdict Harris said Friday’s decision to overthrow him Roe he left her “shocked” after learning of it while flying to Illinois for a mother’s health event. “I could not believe it, because they actually did,” he said. “The court actually got a constitutional right that has been recognized for half a century and it got it from American women – that ‘s shocking if you think about it.” As the first female vice president, Harris said the news affected her as a woman, mother, aunt and godmother and urged all Americans to consider the court ruling. “When we think about it, everyone has something at stake in it,” he added. The LGBTQ community is preparing for the revocation of rights after the abortion decision Although Harris did not mention justice to Amy Connie Barrett in the interview, she was present at Barrett’s 2020 confirmation hearings. Barrett was also asked there Roe and testified that he undertook to abide by “all the rules of the persistent decision”, the principle of respect for the legal precedent in decision-making. “I promise to do it for any issue that arises, abortion or anything else,” he added. Collins told reporters at the confirmation hearing that Gorsos and Cavanaugh had assured her that Roe “Arranged as before”. Manchin, meanwhile, said in a statement: “I trusted Judge Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh when they testified that they also believed Roe v. Wade was a legal precedent and I am concerned that they chose to reject the stability provided by the decision for two generations. Americans. “ Lawmakers such as Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R), MP Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (DN.Y.) and others spoke on June 26 about overthrowing Roe. (Video: Allie Caren / The Washington Post) As for Thomas, he wrote that “in future cases, we will have to re-examine all the substantive precedents of a fair trial of this court, including Griswold, Lawrence and Obergefel.” The 2015 Obergefell ruling guaranteed same-sex couples the right to marry, and the 2003 Lawrence Act overturned a Texas law criminalizing same-sex sex. Griswold’s 1965 decision forbade states from denying contraceptives to married couples. “We have a duty to ‘correct the mistake’ found in the past,” said Thomas. Harris said the court rulings were politically motivated. “I think this is why we all need to really understand the significance of what just happened. That is deep. ” President Biden called the court ruling a “tragic mistake” and urged voters to come in November to elect members of Congress willing to write abortion protection legislation. Several liberal lawmakers, such as Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (DN.Y.), have suggested that Biden could extend access to abortion in federal states to prohibit. But Harris did not enjoy the idea for long during her interview with CNN’s Dana Bash: “It’s not [something] at the moment we are talking “. Instead, he reiterated the importance of the Democratic election during his interim term, citing Senate tribes in Georgia, North Carolina and Colorado as opportunities for his party to win seats. “We need to change the balance and have legislators in favor of the choice that has the power to make decisions about whether this constitutional right will be legislative,” he said. Harris, who chairs the Senate as vice president, did not mention the possibility of eliminating the filmmaker to codify abortion rights. He said the administration would protect the ability of women to travel to other states for abortions, saying the matter was likely to go to court and that the administration would also do everything possible to ensure women would retain access to pills for medical abortions. Amy B Wang contributed to this report.
