Here you go Lumpy. Short version per judge, Alito (unsurprisingly) weaseled a bit, but in short said he had already made up his mind PRIOR to the merits, so, judicially a failure given the duty to respect the merits of the law and precedent.
Thomas didn’t weasel, and always hated Roe but was again, a massive hypocrite, from the article:
“I think those of us who have become judges understand that we have to begin to shed the personal opinions that we have. We tend not to express strong opinions so that we are able to, without the burden or without being burdened by those opinions, rule impartially on cases,” he said.
Thomas also said it would be inappropriate for any judge, including himself, to take a case on an issue “in which he or she has such strong views that he or she cannot be impartial.”
“You have to listen. You have to hear the arguments. You have to allow the adversarial process to think. You have to be open. And you have to be willing to work through the problem. I don’t sit on any issues, on any cases that I have prejudged. I think that it would totally undermine and compromise my capacity as a judge,” he said.
Gorsuch, is pretty much a match for the assertation of @China_Guy
“I would tell you that Roe v. Wade, decided in 1973, is a precedent of the United States Supreme Court. It has been reaffirmed,” he said. “A good judge will consider it as precedent of the U.S. Supreme Court worthy as treatment of precedent like any other.”
One telling exchange came with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who asked about a book Gorsuch wrote in 2006 advocating against legalizing assisted suicide.
In the exchange, Gorsuch acknowledged that the Supreme Court had held that a fetus is not a person for the purposes of the 14th Amendment’s due process clause, a legal underpinning of Roe v. Wade.
“Do you accept that?” asked Durbin.
“That is the law of the land. I accept the law of the land, senator, yes,” Gorsuch replied.
Same for Kavanaugh:
In particular, much was made of a private meeting between Kavanaugh and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who said the nominee had told her he considered Roe to be “settled law.”
But Kavanaugh stopped short of repeating that line in his hearing, instead focusing on Roe’s status as Supreme Court precedent.
“It is settled as a precedent of the Supreme Court, entitled the respect under principles of stare decisis,” he said. “The Supreme Court has recognized the right to abortion since the 1973 Roe v. Wade case. It has reaffirmed it many times.”
Barrett didn’t make such strong statements, and fully acknowledged that it was up to challenge:
But she added that legal challenges to precedents can make their way through the courts back to the Supreme Court, where major rulings can then be revisited.
Perhaps the most revealing moment for Barrett came as she was being questioned by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who asked if Barrett considered Roe to be a “super-precedent.”
Barrett answered by defining super-precedent as “cases that are so well settled that no political actors and no people seriously push for their overruling.”
“And I’m answering a lot of questions about Roe, which I think indicates that Roe doesn’t fall in that category,” she said.
“Roe is not a super-precedent because calls for its overruling have never ceased. But that doesn’t mean that Roe should be overruled. It just means that it doesn’t fall in the small handful of cases like Marbury v. Madison and Brown v. Board that no one questions anymore,” she added.
So, no, not all of them rated Roe as settled, but at least two of them did indicate they’d respect the precedent and/or settled law, and Thomas (zero surprise) showed a lack of honesty, dignity, and respect for law that I might have been sickened if we didn’t already have ample proof that he did not care a fig for any such things.