If Republican senators were committed to fulfilling their obligation to advise and consent to President Trumpov’s nominees, they would want to know the truth; indeed they would insist upon it.

Allison was monumental in appealing for changes in the law around presumed consent to assume a person is willing to donate their organs after death.

In a September legal filing, Morrissey alleged Williams did not “have the capacity to consent to being filmed” for the Lifetime documentary and that her dementia and aphasia diagnoses left her “cognitively impaired.”

The judge ruled that the woman was "mistaken about the nature of the ceremony performed" and "did not provide real consent to her participation" in the marriage.

Wendy Williams, ‘permanently incapacitated’ by dementia, could not consent to filming the Lifetime docuseries ‘Where Is Wendy Williams,’ her guardian argues.