well understand that the role of attorney general is to enforce the law as it is, not as I would have it. I accept Roe and Casey as the settled law of the land. If confirmed as attorney general, I will follow the law in this area and in all other areas. The Supreme Court's decisions on this have been multiple, they have been recent and they have been emphatic. (Text: John Ashcroft' s Senate Confirmation Hearing, January 20, 2001.)

Ashcroft looked sullen and had his eyes fixed downwards as he mouthed these words that he had been coached to give by Bush the Lesser’s “architect,” Karl Rove, who went to war against United States Representative Todd Aiken (R-Missouri) in 2012 when the latter attempted to defend, albeit clumsily,babies), will be instructed use the same canard during their own confirmation hearings. ( Sober Up, part four.)

What follows comes from straight from the "I told you so" or "You heard it here first" files as United States Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) did indeed cleave to the "settled law" line with respect to the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States of America in the cases of Roe v. Wade, January 22, 1973, and Obergefell v. Hodges, June 26, 2015. Although there is no actual transcript of Senator Sessions's confirmation hearings concerning his nomination by then President-elect Donald John Trump to be the next Attorney General of the United States of America, the following press reports demonstrate that, yes, "I told you so" and, yes, "You