Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) defended the U.S. Supreme Court’s potential move to issue rulings that are in conflict with a majority of Americans’ views on abortion rights, telling NPR that is a feature of the system.
Said McConnell: “So for the Supreme Court to on any issue, to reach a decision contrary to public opinion it is exactly what the Supreme Court is about. It’s to protect basic rights, even when majorities are in favor of something else, that happens all the time.”
But he didn’t expect it to be a big issue in the midterm elections: “My guess is in terms of the impact on federal races, I think it’s probably going to be a wash.”
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