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简介In the still-roiled wake of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Senate skip the games fargo
In the still-roiled wake of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh,skip the games fargo Senate GOP leadership has added two Republican women to its Judiciary Committee,
Politico reports
. With four female Democratic senators already serving, the 20-member committee ratios will be 14-6 men to women, and 11-9 Republican to Democrat. The GOP retained and advanced its Senate majority in the recent midterm elections.
Politico wrote that it has seen a new roster for the committee and confirmed the change-up with a “Capitol Hill source.” The GOP will add Joni Ernst of Iowa and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. Both have campaigned on and voted for policies to block the ability for women to obtain legal abortions.
Blackburn led Senate hearings into selectively edited video footage that purported to show Planned Parenthood tried to profit illegally from the sale of fetal tissue. Planned Parenthood denied the accusations, and
investigations in several states
found no validation of the claims. The two anti-abortion activists who shot the video
were indicted
, however, though
the charges were later dropped
.
initially blocked a Blackburn campaign ad in 2017
in which she made the false claim that she had “stopped the sale of baby body parts,” but then
reversed its decision
.
More recently, however, Blackburn
dropped abortion as a campaign issue
in a tight 2018 election in which a moderate former governor opposed her in Tennessee.
Ernst has remained more consistent on the issue, however, tweeting in May 2018
in support of a restrictive abortion bill
signed into law in her state of Iowa: “Glad to see Iowa leading the way and standing up for the most vulnerable in our society, the unborn.” A judge halted the law from taking effect
while a lawsuit against it proceeded
, however.
Glad to see Iowa leading the way and standing up for the most vulnerable in our society, the unborn. Thank you
@IAGovernor
for taking this important step forward in protecting life.
https://t.co/lZoJNrnKZ8
— Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst)
May 4, 2018
The additions to the Judiciary Committee follow Kavanaugh’s confirmation process. During the hearings, an accusation emerged that the judge
he had sexually assaulted a woman
when both were teens. The woman, Christine Blasey
Ford
, intended her information to remain private, but serve as the potential basis of investigation, it was leaked and blew into the open prompting an abbreviated look into the allegations by the FBI and a day of testimony by Kavanaugh and Ford.
With seven men representing the GOP on the judiciary committee, it was seen as bad “optics” for them to question Ford directly. The Republican senators
appointed Rachel Mitchell
, a veteran Arizona sex-crimes prosecutor, to question Ford, but then spoke over Mitchell and ultimately sidelined her.
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