Sen. Jeff Sessions, President-elect Trump’s choice to be attorney general, said he would enforce the Supreme Court’s decision to recognize and uphold gay marriage throughout the country.
“The Supreme Court has ruled on that and the dissent dissented vigorously,” Sessions testified Tuesday. “… I will follow that decision.”
Sessions was responding to questions from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.
She then asked whether Sessions also would enforce the decades-old Supreme Court ruling upholding women’s rights to have abortion, even though he ardently disagrees with it. Feinstein asked why he believed that same-sex marriage law is settled but a woman’s “right to choose” is not.
Sessions said he has never said that Roe v. Wade is the “law of the land.”
Instead, he said, he believes it’s “settled law…so I would follow that law.”
