Biden Says Equal Rights Amendment Is 'Law of the Land'

[thesquanderer]

25. They didn't lie. They danced around the question with non-answers.

It's as if I were to ask you, "Hey B, would you consider murdering someone?" And you answer "I believe murder is illegal." Your answer would be true, and would imply that you wouldn't do it, but it doesn't actually answer the question. Similarly, these people were asked things like whether they agreed with how Roe vs Wade was decided, and they would answer talking about its status as settled law, established precedent, etc. but never actually saying that they agreed with the decision, and never saying that they would refuse to consider a challenge to it. They were focussed not on answering the question, but on how to avoid answering it.

Here's a good article on it. No direct lies, just a lot of weasel words and misdirection.

https://www.factcheck.org/2022/05/what-gorsuch-kavanaugh-and-barrett-said-about-roe-at-confirmation-hearings/