Who could have seen this coming? Not Senator Susan Collins.
Collins replied, “I actually don’t,” citing a “very long discussion with Justice Gorsuch in my office” where he pointed out that “he is a co-author of a whole book on precedent.”Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Services. In the intervening time between the leaked decision and the final ruling, Collins seems to have busied herself with forgetting every single warning sign that reproductive rights in this country were at risk.
“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 stated. “Obviously, we won’t know each Justice’s decision and reasoning until the Supreme Court officially announces its opinion in this case.”
Collins’ shock at the time of the draft leak rested on her inability to reconcile the notion that Justice Brett Kavanaughwith his extremely conservative track record on abortion — would go back on his claim that he would respect the precedent ofas a Supreme Court justice. He did, turning the pro-choice Collins into one of the key figures who helped the Supreme Court overturn
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