That was the background against which Klobuchar asked Barrett whether Roe v. Wade was a superprecedent, and Barrett explicitly excluded Roe v. Wade from the small handful of cases to which that term applies. She said:<\/p>\n
\nThe way that [\u201csuperprecedent\u201d] is used in the scholarship, and the way that I was using it in the article that you\u2019re reading from was to define cases that are so well settled that no political actors and no people seriously push for their overruling. And I\u2019m answering a lot of questions about Roe, which I think indicates that Roe doesn\u2019t fall in that category. And scholars across the spectrum say that doesn\u2019t mean that Roe should be overruled, but descriptively it does mean that it\u2019s not a case that everyone has accepted and doesn\u2019t call for its overruling. <\/p>\n
\u2026As Richard Fallon from Harvard said, Roe is not superprecedent because calls for its overruling have never ceased, but that doesn\u2019t mean that Roe should<\/em> be overruled. It just means that it doesn\u2019t fall on the small handful of cases like Marbury v Madison and Brown v the Board, that noone questions any more. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nReading Barrett\u2019s remarks in their proper context clearly demonstrates that she directly and explicitly exploded the frankly laughable claim, made by MeidasTouch, that she had indicated Roe v. Wade was immune to overruling. In fact, she did just the opposite.<\/p>\n
\n\nSources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\u2013 CONFIRMATION HEARING ON THE NOMINATION OF HON. BRETT M. KAVANAUGH TO BE AN ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES<\/em>. https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/CHRG-115shrg32765\/html\/CHRG-115shrg32765.htm. Accessed 5 May 2022. <\/p>\nAlito Confirmation Hearing, Day 3 Part 1 | C-SPAN.Org<\/em>. https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?190503-1\/alito-confirmation-hearing-day-3-part-1. Accessed 5 May 2022. <\/p>\nBarrett Confirmation Hearing, Day 2 Part 1 | C-SPAN.Org<\/em>. https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?476316-1\/barrett-confirmation-hearing-day-2-part-1. Accessed 5 May 2022. <\/p>\nBarrett Confirmation Hearing, Day 2 Part 2 | C-SPAN.Org<\/em>. https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?476316-4\/barrett-confirmation-hearing-day-2-part-2. Accessed 5 May 2022. <\/p>\nBecker, Jo, and Charles Babington. \u201cNo Right to Abortion, Alito Argued in 1985.\u201d Washington Post<\/em>, 15 Nov. 2005. www.washingtonpost.com<\/em>, https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/politics\/2005\/11\/15\/no-right-to-abortion-alito-argued-in-1985\/bcbd4e02-0c2e-4dac-8caf-0d252c5630a0\/. <\/p>\n\u201cExclusive: Supreme Court Has Voted to Overturn Abortion Rights, Draft Opinion Shows.\u201d POLITICO<\/em>, https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/05\/02\/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473. Accessed 5 May 2022. <\/p>\nGOP Judges EXPOSED as Liars in Megaviral Supercut<\/em>. www.youtube.com<\/em>, https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9jbHMHN_mfo. Accessed 5 May 2022. <\/p>\nGorsuch Confirmation Hearing, Day 2, Part 1 | C-SPAN.Org<\/em>. https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?425138-1\/supreme-court-nominee-stresses-independence-calls-criticism-judges-disheartening&airingid=61108104. Accessed 5 May 2022. <\/p>\n\u201cHunting for \u2018Super Precedents\u2019 in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmations \u2013 National Constitution Center.\u201d National Constitution Center \u2013 Constitutioncenter.Org<\/em>, https:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/blog\/hunting-for-super-precedents-in-u.s-supreme-court-confirmations. Accessed 5 May 2022. <\/p>\nJudiciary, United States Congress Senate Committee on the. Nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas to Be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, First Session \u2026<\/em> U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993. <\/p>\n\u201cStare Decisis.\u201d LII \/ Legal Information Institute<\/em>, https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/wex\/stare_decisis. Accessed 5 May 2022. <\/p>\nStolberg, Sheryl Gay. \u201cRoe Is \u2018Settled Law,\u2019 Kavanaugh Tells Collins. Democrats Aren\u2019t Moved.\u201d The New York Times<\/em>, 21 Aug. 2018. NYTimes.com<\/em>, https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/21\/us\/politics\/kavanaugh-collins-abortion.html. <\/p>\nSupreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearing, Day 2, Part 1 | C-SPAN.Org<\/em>. https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?449705-1\/supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-hearing-day-2-part-1. Accessed 5 May 2022. <\/p>\nThomas Confirmation Hearing Day 2, Part 1 | C-SPAN.Org<\/em>. https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?21115-1\/thomas-confirmation-hearing-day-2-part-1. Accessed 5 May 2022.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five conservative Supreme Court justices dishonestly suggested, in Senate confirmation hearings, that they thought Roe v. Wade was beyond overturning. Fact Check In May 2022, after news leaked that the U.S. Supreme Court had provisionally voted to overturn the abortion protections enshrined in Roe v. 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