US senators accuse a Supreme Court judge of lying to them about abortion

senators Americans Susan Collins (Republican) and Joe Manchin (Democrat) accused the Supreme Court judge this Saturday Brett Kavanaugh of lying to them about his position on abortion during his controversial confirmation process in 2018.

In statements to the media, both Collins -one of the most progressive Republican senators- and Manchin -one of the most conservative Democrats- recalled that Kavanaugh made them believe four years ago that his preference was to maintain the status quo of jurisprudence on this issue. .

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However, Kavanaugh – whose confirmation in 2018 was most controversial when an alleged episode of sexual abuse when he was a university student came to light – was one of the six Supreme Court justices who voted on Friday in favor of revoking the legal protection of abortion. in the USA in force since 1973.

“I feel cheated,” Collins said. Manchin, for his part, included another judge, Neil Gorsuch, in the same package, saying that at the time he trusted both Kavanaugh and Gorsuch when they told him they would respect the case law.

Collins and Manchin voted in favor of both justices’ confirmations and, especially in Kavanaugh’s case, he might not have garnered enough support if both senators had opposed his confirmation.

The Supreme Court of the United States, with a conservative majority, ended Friday with the protection of the right to abortion, in force since 1973, with a controversial decision, which, according to President Joe Biden, takes the country back 150 years.

The ruling was approved with the support of six of the nine judges of the highest US judicial instance and maintains a Mississippi state law that restricts abortion after 15 weeks of gestation.

However, the conservative majority of the Supreme decided to go further and revoke the precedents established in the past by the court itself that protected that right.

The decision did not come as a surprise because the draft ruling was leaked to the media last May.

Source: Elcomercio

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