More from Sen. Graham (R-S.C.) Tomorrow on “Meet the Press with Chuck Todd”
JUNE 30, 2018 – “You don’t overturn precedent unless there’s a good reason,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) tells “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd in an exclusive interview airing on tomorrow’s broadcast.
“I would tell my pro-life friends: you can be pro-life and conservative, but you can also believe in stare decisis,” continues Graham. “Roe v. Wade, in many different ways, has been affirmed over the years.”
Tune in to tomorrow’s broadcast for more from the exclusive interview with Graham, plus exclusive interviews with Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic nominee for New York’s 14th congressional district.
Watch this exchange, and see its transcript below.
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CHUCK TODD: One of the big issues that’s probably going to come up at the confirmation hearing is the issue of abortion. When he was a candidate, Donald Trump said that overturning Roe v. Wade would happen automatically because his picks for the Supreme Court would all be pro-life. Do you view that connection as automatic, that if you’re pro-life it means you’re for overturning Roe v. Wade?
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM: Well I’m pro-life and the job of a judge is to call – decide cases before the court. But one of the concepts that really means a lot in America is stare decisis. That means you don’t overturn precedent unless there’s a good reason, and I would tell my pro-life friends: you can be pro-life and conservative, but you can also believe in stare decisis. Roe v. Wade, in many different ways, has been affirmed over the years. But I would hope the justice that sits on the court, all of them, would listen to the arguments on both sides before they decided.
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