{"id":1530513,"date":"2022-06-28T12:35:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T16:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530513"},"modified":"2022-06-28T12:35:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T16:35:27","slug":"the-scotus-legitimacy-crisis-that-wasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-scotus-legitimacy-crisis-that-wasnt\/","title":{"rendered":"The SCOTUS Legitimacy Crisis That Wasn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-scotus-legitimacy-crisis-that-wasnt%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530513&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><span>During their confirmation hearings, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh repeated the same platitudes as their conservative predecessors about <em>Roe<\/em> v. <em>Wade<\/em> to the effect that it is &#8220;the settled law of the land&#8221; (John Roberts) and an &#8220;important precedent of the Supreme Court&#8221; (Samuel Alito). We share the view of the liberal constitutional law professor Akhil Amar, who <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-yale-law-professor-who-is-anti-roe-but-pro-choice\/id1570872415?i=1000560474755\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>told our friend Bari Weiss<\/span><\/a><span> that their statements in no way meant that <em>Roe<\/em> was immune to overruling: &#8220;If you thought that, that\u2019s on you, not on [them].&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Most lawmakers are clear on that. After all, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan professed respect for Second Amendment precedents at their confirmation hearings, too,\u00a0and as justices, they&#8217;re reliable anti-gun votes. No Republican lawmakers have ever suggested\u00a0they lied.<\/p>\n<p><span>Looking at you, Sens. Susan Collins (R., Maine) and Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.), who now say Gorsuch and Kavanaugh misled them in their confirmation hearings when they mouthed truisms about the nature of <\/span><i><span>Roe<\/span><\/i><span> as &#8220;settled law.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) is seizing on their accusations, arguing that they require a congressional investigation and, of course, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/27\/us\/aoc-roe-abortion-scotus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>impeachment<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sounds familiar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Today it\u2019s Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. In April, it was Justice Clarence Thomas, whose wife\u2019s irrelevant text messages supposedly required his recusal from cases. The remedy for his refusal to do so was, of course, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2022\/03\/ginni-thomas-clarence-thomas-mark-meadows-text-messages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>impeachment<\/span><\/a><span>. Their response to a Sept. 2019 <\/span><i><span>New York Times<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/14\/sunday-review\/brett-kavanaugh-deborah-ramirez-yale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>report<\/span><\/a><span> alleging that a college-aged Kavanaugh pulled down his pants in front of a female student at a dorm-room party\u2014<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/15\/us\/brett-kavanaugh-allegations-trump-impeach.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>impeach<\/span><\/a><span>!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Whatever so-called crisis the court may be suffering, it is one created, stoked, and nurtured lovingly by the Left, which seems to have adopted the Theodor Herzl mantra popularized by the Big Lebowski: If you will it, it is no dream.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During their confirmation hearings, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh repeated the same platitudes as their conservative predecessors about Roe v. 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