{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=6665BF15-2972-4D62-9E9B-A0F47C4AC10F", "Graham On Dobbs Vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization", "2021-11-30", "2021", "2021-11", "Republican", "Senate", "SC", "Lindsey Graham", "G000359", "www.lgraham.senate.gov", "graham", "https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) made this statement on tomorrow\u2019s oral argument before the Supreme Court in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization. The case deals with the constitutionality of a 2018 Mississippi state law that bans almost all abortions after fifteen weeks of pregnancy.\n\nGraham has long been a leader and one of the most effective legislators in Congress in passing pro-life legislation. He was the original author of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which was signed into law by President George W. Bush. Graham is currently pushing the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act which would ban abortions twenty weeks after fertilization.\n\nGraham on threats against the Court:\n\n\u201cTomorrow will be a consequential day in the history of the Supreme Court.\n\n\u201cTo my Democratic colleagues: I will accept whatever decision the Court renders in the Mississippi abortion case \u2013 whether I like it or not. However, I find the threats leveled against the Court by Democratic politicians to be inappropriate and dangerous.\n\n\u201cThreats to expand the size of the Supreme Court based on a ruling you may not agree with undermines the Rule of Law.\u201d\n\nGraham on Dobbs Case:\n\n\u201cIt has long been my personal view that \u2018substantive due process\u2019 as a legal concept is unbounded and dangerous.\n\n\u201cUnder Roe vs. Wade, elected legislators are prohibited from having a say about the rights of the unborn before medical viability. The Court\u2019s legal reasoning behind this is an example of \u2018substantive due process.\u2019\n\n\u201cOver time, \u2018substantive due process\u2019 allows the Court to confer rights based on the view of five Supreme Court Justices, not the Constitution. In effect, the Court becomes the most powerful legislative body in the land.\n\n\u201cThe Dobbs case is historic and will afford the Court the opportunity to return political decision making to the legislative branch and revisit \u2018substantive due process.\u2019\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:30:49Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=6665BF15-2972-4D62-9E9B-A0F47C4AC10F"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4322400093078613, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}