Where's The Justice?

As the 85-year-old Ruth Bader Ginsburg is hospitalised, remember that the pro-life movement never wanted Brett Kavanaugh, and that had he been pro-life, then he would not now be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Kavanaugh owes his confirmation to the vote of Susan Collins, who is not remotely pro-life. Her speech expressed her confidence that Kavanaugh would uphold Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton. Republican Senators gave that speech a standing ovation. 

In her words:

"Opponents frequently cite then-candidate Donald Trump's campaign pledge to nominate only judges who would overturn Roe. The Republican platform for all Presidential campaigns has included this pledge since at least 1980. During this time, Presidents, Republican Presidents, have appointed Justices O'Connor, Souter, and Kennedy to the Supreme Court. These are the very three justices, Republican-president-appointed justices, who authored the Casey decision which reaffirmed Roe." 

Quite. 

And same-sex marriage is certain not to come up, because neither Congress nor any state legislature would ever vote to repeal that now, and Donald Trump has been in favour of it longer than Barack Obama or the Clintons have been.

Returned to the states, almost every legislature would now pass it unanimously, with only minimal opposition in any of the rest, just as the House of Commons would now do so with only the DUP voting against it, and just as there is in fact a majority for it even in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Collins's speech also expressed her confidence that Kavanaugh would uphold Obergefell v. Hodges. Say it again, a Republican standing ovation. And expect exactly the same, both on this issue and on abortion, if President Trump had to nominate someone to succeed Justice Ginsburg.