Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faces a crucial test Tuesday when he sits down for a meeting with Republican Senator Susan Collins, who plans to ask him about abortion and other topics.
Collins said she intended to talk to Kavanaugh about his praise for the then-Justice William Rehnquist’s dissent in Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 abortion-rights case.
“I’m going to talk to him about that,” she said on Monday. Earlier, she said that she was looking for a justice whose judicial philosophy “respects precedent.“
Kavanaugh is meeting with senators individually before his confirmation hearing by the Judiciary Committee, ...
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