Hawley Lays Down New Marker for New Justices

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told the Washington Post that he would not support any future nominee for the Supreme Court unless they had publicly stated before their nomination that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that established federal protection for abortion, was “wrongly decided.”

Said Harley: “I will vote only for those Supreme Court nominees who have explicitly acknowledged that Roe v. Wade is wrongly decided. By explicitly acknowledged, I mean on the record and before they were nominated.”