Manufactured news by the NYT.
A conservative lawyer offered a case to debunk tweets by Maggie Haberman, White House correspondent for the New York Times, in which she said everyone on President Trump’s list of 25 Supreme Court candidates is against abortion and has been vetted by the Federalist Society, a right-leaning legal organization.
“They’re all against abortion – they’ve been screened by the Federalist Society – making this point moot,” Haberman tweeted Sunday in response to a tweet quoting Trump stating during a Fox News interview that he will “probably not” ask potential nominees how they would vote in any cases related to Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that made abortion legal nationwide.
“To be clearer here after a reader email – they’ve addressed their views on constitutionality of Roe v Wade previously. There is a school of thought among some senior Rs that for Kavanaugh it’s a lesser issue. But as for how they view the law,’they’ve all stated it,” she added, referring to Brett Kavanaugh, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit who is on Trump’s list.
Ed Whelan, a lawyer and former law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia who is now president of the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center, called such an assertion “absurd,” stressing that Haberman has presented no evidence to back up her tweets and noted that he’s not aware of any of the 25 candidates being interviewed by the Federalist Society.