{"id":1549398,"date":"2022-07-11T20:19:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T00:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1549398"},"modified":"2022-07-11T20:19:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T00:19:16","slug":"aoc-wants-chuck-schumer-to-have-the-senate-declare-gorsuch-and-kavanaugh-liars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-wants-chuck-schumer-to-have-the-senate-declare-gorsuch-and-kavanaugh-liars\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC Wants Chuck Schumer To Have The Senate Declare Gorsuch And Kavanaugh Liars"},"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\">26<\/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%2Faoc-wants-chuck-schumer-to-have-the-senate-declare-gorsuch-and-kavanaugh-liars%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=1549398&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--><p>Congresswoman <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-tells-pro-abortion-crowd-she-was-raped-a-decade-ago-i-was-completely-alone\/\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> (D-NY) teamed up with Congressman Ted Lieu (D-CA) to issue a letter calling on the Senate to declare Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh liars.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter \u2014 which they addressed to Senate Majority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/chuck-schumer-promised-kavanaugh-would-pay-the-price-after-the-arrest-of-kavanaughs-would-be-assassin-hes-silent\/\">Chuck Schumer<\/a> \u2014 the pair claimed that both Gorsuch and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/chasten-buttigieg-mocks-kavanaugh-for-fleeing-restaurant-amid-protests-but-the-joke-blows-up-in-his-face\/\">Kavanaugh<\/a> had lied to the Senate when they said during their respective confirmation hearings that\u00a0<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> was settled precedent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Constitutional Republic cannot tolerate Supreme Court Justices who lied in order to get confirmed. The legitimacy of the Court is at stake,\u201d Lieu tweeted, sharing a screenshot of the letter. \u201cLetter from @AOC and me requesting the Senate to make a finding on whether Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch lied to the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our Constitutional Republic cannot tolerate Supreme Court Justices who lied in order to get confirmed. The legitimacy of the Court is at stake.<\/p>\n<p>Letter from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AOC<\/a> and me requesting the Senate to make a finding on whether Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch lied to the American people. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/snQQf2cVKm\">pic.twitter.com\/snQQf2cVKm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedlieu\/status\/1546568769748606976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez shared Lieu\u2019s comment and added her own, saying, \u201cWe cannot allow Supreme Court nominees lying and\/or misleading the Senate under oath to go unanswered. Both GOP &#038; Dem Senators stated SCOTUS justices misled them. This cannot be accepted as precedent. Doing so erodes rule of law, delegitimizes the court, and imperils democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We cannot allow Supreme Court nominees lying and\/or misleading the Senate under oath to go unanswered.<\/p>\n<p>Both GOP &#038; Dem Senators stated SCOTUS justices misled them. This cannot be accepted as precedent.<\/p>\n<p>Doing so erodes rule of law, delegitimizes the court, and imperils democracy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yZW6BKnqFG\">https:\/\/t.co\/yZW6BKnqFG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1546573260531400708?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe request that the Senate make its position clear on whether Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch lied under oath during their confirmation hearings,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez and Lieu wrote in the letter, adding, \u201cWe must call out their actions for what they were before the moment passes so that we can prevent such a mendacious denigration of our fundamental rights and the rule of law from ever happening again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both Gorsuch and Kavanaugh stated during their confirmation hearings that they considered\u00a0<em>Roe<\/em> \u2014 along with its successor,\u00a0<em>Planned Parenthood v. Casey<\/em> \u2014 to be settled precedent in the eyes of the court. Many took those statements to mean that they would never vote to overturn the two landmark abortion cases \u2014 which they did in late June. But stating that those cases were \u201cprecedent\u201d did not mean that either justice was lying \u2014 nor did it necessarily constitute a promise to never overturn said precedent.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that both\u00a0<em>Roe<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Casey<\/em>\u00a0were \u201cprecedent\u201d did not mean that they were necessarily constitutional or that they were not simply bad law, however.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oyez.org\/cases\/1850-1900\/163us537\"><em>Plessy v. Ferguson<\/em><\/a> \u2014 which allowed for segregation under the banner of \u201cseparate but equal\u201d \u2014 was also precedent once, until\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/black-history\/brown-v-board-of-education-of-topeka\"><em>Brown v. Board of Education<\/em><\/a> reversed that.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscourts.gov\/educational-resources\/educational-activities\/facts-and-case-summary-korematsu-v-us\"><em>Korematsu v. United States<\/em><\/a> \u2014 which allowed for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II \u2014 was also considered precedent until it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) teamed up with Congressman Ted Lieu (D-CA) to issue a letter calling on the Senate to declare Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh liars. In the letter \u2014 which they addressed to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer \u2014 the pair claimed that both Gorsuch and Kavanaugh had lied to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1549433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1549433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}