Why Brett Kavanaugh’s arguments in Dobbs ‘loom over’ a Texas judge’s abortion pill ruling: columnist

When pro-choice Sen. Susan Collins of Maine voted to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018, the pro-choice Republican insisted that then-President Donald Trump’s nominee considered Roe v. Wade “settled law.” But she was wrong. In 2022, Kavanaugh was among the five justices who voted to overturn Roe — after 49 years — with the widely unpopular Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision. Dobbs was not a nationwide abortion ban. Post-Roe, the legality or illegality of abortion is being decided on a state-by-state basis in the United States. And one of the th…

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