And the Winner is...

[seer]

I think the fact that liberals hate this. nomination is an excellent sign.

yep...

[seer]

How can the libs stop such an excellent Judge?

A Liberal’s Case for Brett Kavanaugh

By Akhil Reed Amar

Mr. Amar is a professor at Yale Law School.

The nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to be the next Supreme Court justice is President Trump’s finest hour, his classiest move. Last week the president promised to select “someone with impeccable credentials, great intellect, unbiased judgment, and deep reverence for the laws and Constitution of the United States.” In picking Judge Kavanaugh, he has done just that.

In 2016, I strongly supported Hillary Clinton for president as well as President Barack Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Merrick Garland. But today, with the exception of the current justices and Judge Garland, it is hard to name anyone with judicial credentials as strong as those of Judge Kavanaugh. He sits on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (the most influential circuit court) and commands wide and deep respect among scholars, lawyers and jurists....

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/09/o...urt-trump.html

[Sparko]

liberals won't let facts get in the way of political bias.

[firstfloor]

... a giant leap for Christofascism.

[Sparko]

... a giant leap for Christofascism.

you won't be saying that when we have you on the racks in the Supreme Court dungeon.

[oxmixmudd]

I think the fact that liberals hate this. nomination is an excellent sign.

No real opinion on the man himself, mainly because I've not looked into where he is on the issues. If he believes the president of the US is above the law, that is a BIG problem. We don't need someone that will pander to DT but rather who will interpret the constitution intelligently and faithfully, not with an eye towards creating precedent in favor of personal opinion or some specific ideology. We need some common sense on the court, we don't need it continuing to the left of left. That said, we do not need Trumpish White nationalist party ism ... err 'conservatism' either. Of the two (left of left, DT pandering), I would say Trumpish White Nationalism ... err 'conservatism' is in fact the worse of two evils.

However, it is hard when asked to chose between left leaning policies that amount to communism and tyranny and right leaning policies that tend toward white nationaliam and which curry favor with the neo-Nazis. There are not many good choices left out there.


Jim

[rogue06]

Not a winner yet, only been nominated. I think Trump nominated him because Kavanaugh doesn't believe that a President should be subject to investigation or to be criminally indicted while in office. In other words, as usual, it's all about Trump. Anyway, Kavanaugh apparently has a long paper trail and Democrats will now use that to drag this confirmation process on for a long time, possibly right on up to election time. Not a done deal!

I think he picked him because of those on his list he's probably the one that Collins and Murkowski will have the least objections to. This seems to be the case, at least with Collins, who in her statement reacting to the nomination started out by saying "Judge Kavanaugh has impressive credentials and extensive experience, having served more than a decade on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals."

Their big issue has been whether he would be inclined to overturn Roe and during his confirmation to the Court of Appeals said it was "binding precedent of the court" and "I would follow Roe v. Wade faithfully and fully." Of course he was talking about as an Appeals Court judge who aren't supposed to be trying to overturn law and for who precedent is binding. That is not the case for a SCOTUS.

[rogue06]

No real opinion on the man himself, mainly because I've not looked into where he is on the issues. If he believes the president of the US is above the law, that is a BIG problem. We don't need someone that will pander to DT but rather who will interpret the constitution intelligently and faithfully, not with an eye towards creating precedent in favor of personal opinion or some specific ideology. We need some common sense on the court, we don't need it continuing to the left of left. That said, we do not need Trumpish White nationalist party ism ... err 'conservatism' either. Of the two (left of left, DT pandering), I would say Trumpish White Nationalism ... err 'conservatism' is in fact the worse of two evils.

However, it is hard when asked to chose between left leaning policies that amount to communism and tyranny and right leaning policies that tend toward white nationaliam and which curry favor with the neo-Nazis. There are not many good choices left out there.


Jim

It isn't whether a president is "above the law" but rather what is the proper course of action. Most of those who take the Constitution seriously rather than seeing it as an impediment to enacting whatever they want realize that the only way to deal with a (dare I say it?) rogue president is impeachment. Once removed from office I think he can be handled normally.

[seer]

you won't be saying that when we have you on the racks in the Supreme Court dungeon.

Where is Torquemada when you need him!

[rogue06]

That's because the whole group of them were okayed by the Federalist Society, and we all know what that means. Well, I guess rogue doesn't know.

It means they had a generic fill-in-the-blank response waiting rather than bothering to deal with the specific nominee. They aren't clones holding identical views. Hard to take such responses seriously.

[rogue06]

Trump couldn't care less about the abortion issue, apart from pandering to his Evangelical base. In fact, given his sexual promiscuity it wouldn't be surprising if some of his "conquests" had aborted Trump progeny over the years. Kavanaugh was the only realistic choice for Trump, because he is the only judge on the shortlist that believes a president should be immune from investigation.

Trump actually held some pretty radical views on abortion having actually left the Republican party and becoming a Democrat over the former's opposition to partial birth abortion.

[Cow Poke]

Not a winner yet, only been nominated. I think Trump nominated him because Kavanaugh doesn't believe that a President should be subject to investigation or to be criminally indicted while in office. In other words, as usual, it's all about Trump. Anyway, Kavanaugh apparently has a long paper trail and Democrats will now use that to drag this confirmation process on for a long time, possibly right on up to election time. Not a done deal!

Trump chose wisely - the Democrats will make total fools of themselves trying to fight this, but they will lose.

[Cow Poke]

Trump couldn't care less about the abortion issue...

Did you actually get a diploma or certificate at that mind reading school? You really should demand your money be refunded.

[Cow Poke]

... a giant leap for Christofascism.

Bless yer heart.

[Cow Poke]

No real opinion on the man himself, mainly because I've not looked into where he is on the issues. If he believes the president of the US is above the law, that is a BIG problem. We don't need someone that will pander to DT but rather who will interpret the constitution intelligently and faithfully, not with an eye towards creating precedent in favor of personal opinion or some specific ideology. We need some common sense on the court, we don't need it continuing to the left of left. That said, we do not need Trumpish White nationalist party ism ... err 'conservatism' either. Of the two (left of left, DT pandering), I would say Trumpish White Nationalism ... err 'conservatism' is in fact the worse of two evils.

However, it is hard when asked to chose between left leaning policies that amount to communism and tyranny and right leaning policies that tend toward white nationaliam and which curry favor with the neo-Nazis. There are not many good choices left out there.


Jim

It appears so far that this nominee has far more personal integrity than to pander to Trump or anybody else. So far, he looks like the real deal.