{"id":376492,"date":"2018-09-07T20:58:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T19:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/documents-reveal-kavanaugh-thinks-abortion-decision-is-not-settled-law\/"},"modified":"2018-09-07T20:58:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T19:58:45","slug":"documents-reveal-kavanaugh-thinks-abortion-decision-is-not-settled-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/documents-reveal-kavanaugh-thinks-abortion-decision-is-not-settled-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Documents Reveal Kavanaugh Thinks Abortion Decision Is Not \u201cSettled Law\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AMY<\/span> <\/span>GOODMAN<\/span>:<\/strong> <\/span>This is <\/span>Democracy Now!, <\/span>Democracynow.org<\/a>, The War and Peace Report. I\u2019m Amy Goodman.<\/p>\n

Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s confirmation hearing took a dramatic turn Thursday when Democratic senators began releasing confidential documents from Kavanaugh\u2019s work at the George W. Bush White House. The move came in response to the Trump administration withholding more than 100,000 pages of Kavanaugh\u2019s records on the basis of presidential privilege. The Democrats\u2019 move came shortly after <\/span>The New York Times <\/span>broke a major story Thursday morning revealing Kavanaugh, as a White House attorney, wrote in 2003 he did not deem the Supreme Court\u2019s landmark Roe v. Wade<\/em> abortion rights decision to be settled law of the land. Kavanaugh wrote \u201cI 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,\u201d he said. California Senator Dianne Feinstein questioning Kavanaugh Thursday about the emailing.<\/p>\n

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SEN<\/span>. <\/span>DIANNE<\/span> <\/span>FEINSTEIN<\/span>:<\/strong> <\/span>We have an email that was previously marked confidential but is now public and shows that you asked about making edits to an op-ed that read the following, and I quote: \u201cFirst of all, it is widely understood, accepted by legal scholars across the board, that Roe v. Wade and it progeny are the settled law of the land.\u201d You responded by saying, and I quote, \u201cI 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.\u201d This has been viewed as you saying you don\u2019t think Roe is settled.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

AMY<\/span> <\/span>GOODMAN<\/span>:<\/strong> <\/span>Judge Brett Kavanaugh dismissed the significance of his 2003 email.<\/p>\n

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BRETT<\/span> <\/span>KAVANAUGH<\/span>:<\/strong> <\/span>The broader point was simply that I think it…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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