Leaked Documents Show Kavanaugh Isn't So Sure Roe v. Wade Is 'Settled' After All
Leaked documents obtained by the New York Times and published Thursday show that despite his public claims that the Supreme Court ruling which struck down abortion bans as unconstitutional is “settled law,” privately President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh isn’t quite so sure that the precedent is, in fact, all that settled.
In an email from March 2003, Kavanaugh—then working as an attorney for the George W. Bush administration—proposed cutting a line from a draft of an opinion piece being worked on in support of conservative court nominees. The document stated that “it is widely accepted by legal scholars across the board that Roe v. Wade and its progeny are the settled law of the land.”