{"id":228076,"date":"2020-07-29T12:32:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T17:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=228076"},"modified":"2020-07-31T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T15:52:09","slug":"senator-josh-hawley-supreme-court-roe-wrongly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/senator-josh-hawley-supreme-court-roe-wrongly\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Josh Hawley: Supreme Court nominees who don’t believe Roe was \u2018wrongly decided\u2019 won’t get my vote"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last month, <\/span>Chief Justice John Roberts<\/span><\/a> sided with the liberal justices of the Supreme Court to strike down a Louisiana law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges. This disappointing ruling, among other <\/span>questionable decisions<\/span><\/a> the Court has made recently, has made it clear to people like <\/span>Senator Josh Hawley<\/span><\/a> that it\u2019s time we rethink the way we nominate justices. Hawley has made it clear that he will not confirm a justice who has not publicly criticized <\/span>Roe v. Wade<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u2014<\/span><\/i>which, to this day, remains one of the most infamous cases of judicial overreach.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI will vote only for those Supreme Court nominees who have explicitly acknowledged that <\/span>Roe v. Wade<\/span><\/i> is wrongly decided,\u201d Hawley told <\/span>The Washington Post<\/span><\/a>\u00a0of the law which legalized abortion throughout the United States.\u00a0\u201cBy explicitly acknowledged, I mean on the record and before they were nominated.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Republican nominees to the Court typically avoid condemning the 1973 ruling in order to avoid having their pro-life stance weaponized against them by liberals opposed to their nomination. However, most Republican nominees will voice their disapproval of abortion in private with the senators whose votes they need to be confirmed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But Hawley believes this way of doing things is no longer acceptable, setting a new standard. The decision to have the Senate Judiciary Committee focus on the abortion views of potential justices appears to be motivated by Hawley\u2019s desire to rescue the Court from increasing judicial activism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n