Republican ‘Commitment to America’ midterms pledge rehashes Gingrich – live | US politics
Democrats have failed you, elect us instead. That’s the message top House Republican Kevin McCarthy delivers in the video below, which was released ahead of the debut of the party’s Commitment to America platform happening right now in Pennsylvania.
The California representative hones in on high inflation, rising crime and migrant and asylum seekers’ arrival at the southern border. Considering the likelihood of Republicans again winning a majority in the House following the midterms, it’s a message worth paying attention to:
The platform’s debut can be watched live here.
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In his first television interview since retiring earlier this year, Breyer told journalist Chris Wallace that he disagreed with the court’s decision in the Mississippi Dobbs case that including the overthrowing of Roe, announced in June.
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“Was I happy about it? Not for an instant. Did I do everything I could to persuade people? Of course, of course. But there we are, and now we go on. We try to work together,” he said in the interview that aired on HBO Max today and airs on CNN on Sunday evening.
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Breyer, 84, said: “Did I like this Dobbs decision? Of course I didn’t. Of course I didn’t.”
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He tells Wallace it was frustrating to be in the minority on the court, in terms of justices leaning liberal. The court’s conservative majority was consolidated and then expanded by the Trump administration. The final addition under Donald Trump of ultra-conservative Amy Coney Barrett in 2020, replacing the late liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg, gave the nine-judge bench a six-three super majority in favor of judges leaning right.
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Breyer announced in January that he would retire and he left the bench this summer, replaced by Joe Biden’s nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, who became the first Black woman on the court.
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Breyer was one of the least high-profile justices. He lamented to Wallace the increasing rigidity of the conservatives on the bench.
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“You start writing too rigidly and you will see, the world will come around and bite you in the back. Because you will find something you see just doesn’t work at all. And the supreme court, somewhat to the difference of others, has that kind of problem in spades.”
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“Life is complex, life changes, and we want to maintain insofar as we can — everybody does – certain key moral political values: democracy, human rights, equality, rule of law, etc. To try to do that in an ever-changing world. If you think you can do that by writing 16 computer programs – I just disagree.”
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Breyer concluded that he was “very, very sorry” about the overturning of Roe v Wade. He also said the unprecedented and still-mysterious leak in May of that draft decision, which was penned by ultra-conservative justice Samuel Alito in the drafting and the final version, was “very damaging”.
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