Ana Marie Cox: Anyone who’s spent any time in Washington knows that being accused of being a liar is an insult but that being naive is worse. - NBCNewsTHINK
At the very least, these men’s résumés should have raised someabout their commitment to Roe. But no. “I do not believe that Brett Kavanaugh will overturn Roe v. Wade,”: “I had a very long discussion with Justice Gorsuch in my office, and he pointed out to me that he is a co-author of a whole book on precedent.”
That Collins was able to blithely announce her confidence in these Republican-appointed justices’ support of Roe is more than infuriating; it’sIf Collins is lying — and lying this consistently and repeatedly — reporters need to note it and press her about it every time she’s interviewed. Every time she’s quoted. Hey, remember how journalists had a collective fit of conscience when Trump was in office? Readers and viewers were reminded on a regular basis that Trump had lied about this or that.
If Collins isn’t lying and instead is sailing forward in the murky waters of American politics without the ballast of cynicism, that’s so much worse. It’s worse because it’s not something journalists or constituents can correct for, like when you know hot and cold water are reversed on a faucet. When someone is a serial liar, we have guidance in deducing the truth. We can contextualize whatever they’re saying through a mirror lens., even ...
When someone is just a persistently beguiled naif — decades into elected office, even ... well, what can we do?Justice Lewis Powell was the court’s most surprising signatory to the original Roe opinion. As a jurist, he had been a proponent of what conservatives still call “judicial restraint”; at least one legal scholar has called Powell’s vote in Roe “
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