Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one who rises to the top in a slough of incompetence, is leading a charge to impeach Supreme Court justices — apparently just the ones she does not like. She said, “If we allow Supreme Court nominees to lie under oath and secure lifetime appointments to the highest court of the land and then issue, issue without basis — if you read these opinions — issue without basis rulings that deeply undermine human civil rights of the majority of Americans.”
The first takeaway any listener to or reader of that statement should have is this: Ocasio-Cortez has herself not read these opinions. If she had, she would know that they have a basis, even if she does not agree with it. The other options would seem to be that she has little to no reading comprehension, or she is a bald-faced liar.
There is definitely some serious misrepresentation going on about what was said in those hearings about Roe and Casey, but it’s not coming from the Justices...No Supreme Court nominee has ever come close to saying any such thing about any precedent. In fact, for decades, nominees of both parties have studiously avoided giving even what Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg described in her 1993 hearing as “hints … forecasts … [or] previews.” Transcripts of those hearings, which are available here, here, and here, show exactly what the Justices said and expose how accusations of “lying” are pure fiction.
The Justices Didn’t Lie About Roe v. Wade—And Democrats Know It
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