Judge Selection Adviser on Roe Overturn: ‘Skeptical’ of What People ‘Are Suggesting Might Happen’

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Leonard Leo, the Outside Adviser to the President for Judicial Selection, stated, that only one current Supreme Court justice has said they want to overturn Roe v. Wade and he’s “very skeptical about what people are suggesting might happen.” Leo also said that it’s “dangerous” to try to guess how a nominee will end up ruling.

Leo said, “[H]e’s [President Trump] never asked this question of a nominee. We’ve never discussed it. The other thing I would say is that it’s really dangerous territory to be trying to game out where a nominee’s going to end up. People have been trying to do that for 36 years, beginning with the nomination of Sandra O’Connor, and every single time they’ve been wrong. And right now, there’s only one justice on the court, Clarence Thomas, who has said explicitly he wants to overturn Roe. So, there’s a lot of speculation going on here. And I’m just very skeptical about what people are suggesting might happen.”

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