WASHINGTON, D.C. (WSAU) — Democratic US Senator Tammy Baldwin has lashed out against Judge Brett Kavanaugh as President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court.
“After reviewing this nominee’s record, I know why powerful special interests in Washington selected Judge Brett Kavanaugh to work on the Supreme Court for them, not the people of Wisconsin,” said Baldwin in a press release.
She went on to attack Kavanaugh’s record on issues such as Obamacare and women’s reproductive health, saying “At a time when so many in Washington are working to overturn the law of the land that helps provide affordable health care for 133 million Americans with pre-existing conditions, including more than two million Wisconsinites, we cannot afford a nominee who could serve as the deciding vote to take us back to the days when powerful insurance companies wrote the rules.”
“The President vowed to appoint judges to the Supreme Court who would overturn Roe v. Wade, and I cannot support a nominee for a lifetime appointment who would turn back the clock on a woman’s constitutional right and freedom to make her own health care choices, including access to birth control,” she added.
Baldwin went on to say the people of Wisconsin need a fair, impartial, and independent Supreme Court Justice who will stand for them and not for powerful special interests. “I don’t have confidence that Judge Kavanaugh would be that justice.”
