The Supreme Court temporarily blocked Louisiana from implementing the same type of abortion provider restrictions that were struck down in Texas in 2016. But president Trump’s latest addition to the bench, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, wrote a dissent explaining how he would have preferred to let the law take effect and revisit the issue after the law had a chance to shut down most of the state’s clinics.
So it’s no surprise public attention returned to Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), who cast the deciding vote to confirm Kavanaugh after a long-winded Senate speech saying she did not believe the allegations of sexual assault against him and did not believe he would undermine Roe v. Wade. Despite Kavanaugh’s actions last week, Collins stands by her decision, with her office dismissively telling the Associated Press her critics didn’t read the opinion. But at least one legal expert has outlined how Kavanaugh’s dissent provides a roadmap to dismantle abortion rights with a trickle of dry, procedural rulings.
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