be having activating engaging in people across the country. republican senator susan collins of maine said roe versus wade is settled law when asked about abortion rights this afternoon. let s watch. well, first of all, i view roe versus wade as being settled law. it s clearly precedent and i always look for judges who respect precedent. susan collins is great and said she respects jungs accepts it as it is. do you believe that roe versus wade is safe? no, because when a president makes that pledge on national tv and says he s going to stick to it and goes to the measure of saying he would punish women, you have to take what he said during the campaign, he is implementing. and what we don t want is a bench that basically is going to follow that will textualist list
legalized abortion nationwide. do you want to see the court overturn row v wade? if we put another two or perhaps three justices on that s really what s that will happen and that will happen automatically in my opinion because i am putting pro life justices on the court. but some republicans like senator susan collins do not agree with that. well, first of all, i view row v wade as being settled law. it s clearly precedent and i always look for judges who respect precedent. all right. joining us now from washington, senior writer at roll call, great to have you with us this morning. are we likely to see a supreme court nominee voted on in the senate before the midterms? i think that is the central question that people are waking up to this morning. i think that s absolutely what we re looking for. what i heard yesterday around
position? i m honored even to be considered for something like this. the notion that we can stop them with 49 votes is not in the cards. we still have the american people potentially on our side if president trump chooses from that list of right wing fringe ideal logs who are committed to overturn roe v. wade. that s the reason they re on that list. first of all, i view roe v. wade as being settled law. it s clearly precedent, and i always look for judges who respect precedent. this is probably going to be a bare knuckle down in the dirt scratching, biting, you know, ear pulling political fight. well, then, the future of the nation as we know it shifted in a massive way. you either woke up excited about the retirement of supreme court justice anthony kennedy or