Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren reiterated her belief in adding additional justices to the Supreme Court in the wake of the decision on Roe v. Wade.
“They have burned whatever legitimacy they may still have had after their gun decision, after their voting decision, after their union decision. They just took the last of it and set a torch to it with the Roe vs. Wade opinion. I believe we need to get some confidence back in our Court. And that means we need more justices on the United States Supreme Court,” Warren said.
In response to the decision, she said she doesn’t support the government should have a say in a decision between a woman and her doctor.
“I believe, and it has been the constitutional right of women across this nation for nearly half a century, for the woman to be able to make that decision with her doctor, with her religious advisor, with her family, but not something that the government should be in the middle of,” she said.
On Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion calling on the court to reconsider rulings striking down state restrictions, contraception, gay marriage, Warren said she’s “deeply concerned.”
“I understand that the rest of the court said no, no, we’re not going there. But remember how we got to where we are,” she said. “When Roe vs. Wade first came down, there was a tiny minority that really put a lot of energy, in effect for themselves and for Republicans, putting Roe on the ballot over and over but on the ballot didn’t mean try to get it through the Congress because they knew they couldn’t do that. They’re not even close to having national support for that.
She added: “So instead, it was about getting extremist judges into the United States Supreme Court.”
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