{"id":3045,"date":"2018-09-06T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/06\/new-documents-kavanaugh-questions-if-roe-is-settled-law-of-the-land\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:16:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:16:53","slug":"new-documents-kavanaugh-questions-if-roe-is-settled-law-of-the-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/new-documents-kavanaugh-questions-if-roe-is-settled-law-of-the-land\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW Documents: Kavanaugh Questions If Roe Is \u2018Settled Law Of The Land\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

What are Republicans hiding? Here’s a clue…<\/span><\/p>\n

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“As a White House lawyer in the Bush administration, Judge Brett Kavanaugh challenged the accuracy of deeming the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision to be ‘settled law of the land,’ according to a secret email obtained by The New York Times.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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New York Times:<\/a><\/span> Leaked Documents From Kavanaugh’s Time in White House Discuss Abortion and Affirmative Action<\/p>\n

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By Charlie Savage<\/span><\/p>\n

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As a White House lawyer in the Bush administration, Judge Brett Kavanaugh challenged the accuracy of deeming the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision to be “settled law of the land,” according to a secret email obtained by The New York Times.<\/span><\/p>\n

The email, written in March 2003, is one of thousands of documents that a lawyer for President George W. Bush turned over to the Senate Judiciary Committee about the Supreme Court nominee but deemed “committee confidential,” meaning it could not be made public or discussed by Democrats in questioning him in hearings this week. It was among several an unknown person provided to The New York Times late Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Judge Kavanaugh was considering a draft opinion piece that supporters of one of Mr. Bush’s conservative appeals court nominees hoped they could persuade anti-abortion women to submit under their names. It stated that “it is widely accepted by legal scholars across the board that Roe v. Wade and its progeny are the settled law of the land.”<\/p>\n

Judge Kavanaugh proposed deleting that line, writing: “I am not sure that all legal scholars refer to Roe as the settled law of the land at the Supreme Court level since Court can always overrule its precedent, and three current Justices on the Court would do so.”<\/p>\n

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What are Republicans hiding? Here’s a clue…   “As a White House lawyer in the Bush administration, Judge Brett Kavanaugh challenged the accuracy of deeming the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. 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