I would not have supported this generic Federalist Society hack put on the Court for the primary purpose of overruling Roe v. Wade if I knew she was going to vote to overrule Roe v. Wade

A nominee to the highest appellate court in Connecticut is being asked to account for her submitting to weekly inspections from the Federal Wallet Inspector:

A nominee to Connecticut’s highest court told state lawmakers Monday that she would not have signed a 2017 letter supporting Amy Coney Barrett for a federal appeals court position if she knew Barrett would later vote to overturn Roe v. Wade abortion protections as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Sandra Slack Glover, a federal prosecutor nominated by Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont, made the comment during her confirmation hearing before the legislature’s Judiciary Committee, as several members of the Democratic majority expressed concerns about her support of Barrett. The committee was scheduled to vote later Monday on Glover’s nomination to the Connecticut Supreme Court.

“I’m not going to demonize her,” Glover said. “But when I look at that letter now … I’m no longer comfortable with some of those statements.

“But I also believed, clearly naively at this point, I thought there were guardrails,” she said, referring to judges’ respect for legal precedents. “And I thought the lower court judges were constrained. I thought the Supreme Court was constrained. And I was wrong. And looking back and knowing what I now know, I shouldn’t have signed it.”

Should someone with no idea how stare decisis works be an appellate judge? Asking on behalf of the Connecticut Judiciary Committee. This the kind of statement where it would be worse if she was telling the truth that if she was lying.

As ridiculous a case of Lawyer Brain as this is, the idea that there was some kind of Republican conspiracy to preserve Roe v. Wade was astonishingly widespread among Savvy political observers. How much of that misinformed complacency trickled down to voters in 2014 and 2016 is hard to say, but we do know it’s remarkable how little Democratic voters cared about the Supreme Court during the elections that killed Roe. Uncritical elite liberal institutionalism has allowed the reactionary minority to stay one step ahead often enough to lead to really gruesome results.