[Newsbot]

Title: Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh hearing rocked by 'mob rule'
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2018-09-04 09:40:27

[martin14]

Best.

Pick.

Ever.

[BartSimpson]

Agreed. Kavanaugh being a strict constructionist is going to avoid legislating from the bench and I imagine he'll be open to turning back decades of judicial misconduct in creating 'case law' that has no basis in written law.

And the left fears this because most of their accomplishments have been in the courtrooms and not in the legislatures.

[Thanos]

A judge who's openly said that he fully supports the idea that a president should be exempt from the law like some kind of grotesque king should be opposed every moment of his miserable life.

[BartSimpson]

Thanos Thanos:

A judge who's openly said that he fully supports the idea that a president should be exempt from the law like some kind of grotesque king should be opposed every moment of his miserable life.

No, he said that Congress can pass a law to exempt a sitting President from personal investigations.

It would not prevent Congress from investigating issues that arise while the President is in office.

Looking forward, the legislation could be written and then passed so that it applies to the President who takes office in 2021 to prevent or mitigate any concerns like your own.

[Thanos]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Thanos Thanos:

A judge who's openly said that he fully supports the idea that a president should be exempt from the law like some kind of grotesque king should be opposed every moment of his miserable life.

No, he said that Congress can pass a law to exempt a sitting President from personal investigations.

It would not prevent Congress from investigating issues that arise while the President is in office.

Looking forward, the legislation could be written and then passed so that it applies to the President who takes office in 2021 to prevent or mitigate any concerns like your own.

So all Trump needs is for the majority GOP to totally capitulate, pass the sort of law that would have made John Adams & Thomas Jefferson vomit from the very thought of it, and he'll have his own fully-legal Supreme Soviet for all the applaudin' & cheerin' he needs? Sounds good, fam.

[BartSimpson]

Thanos Thanos:

So all Trump needs is for the majority GOP to totally capitulate, pass the sort of law that would have made John Adams & Thomas Jefferson vomit from the very thought of it, and he'll have his own fully-legal Supreme Soviet for all the applaudin' & cheerin' he needs? Sounds good, fam.

Paranoid much?

[BartSimpson]

On a more reasoned note:

$1:

Today, Judge Brett Kavanaugh appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the beginning of his confirmation hearing for the U.S. Supreme Court. Predictably, Democrats attempted to thwart even holding a hearing on the Judge’s nomination, rather than focusing on his record.

It’s easy to see why: Judge Kavanaugh has a long, clear history as an independent and impartial arbiter of the law. He ruled against the Republican National Committee in one campaign-finance case and in favor of a liberal pro-choice group, Emily’s List, in another. He has ruled in favor of environmentalist plaintiffs in some cases and in favor of Western landowners and coal miners in others.

He bases his rulings on the law—not politics, policy, or identity. Despite being appointed by a Republican President, Judge Kavanaugh ruled at least 23 times against Bush Administration agencies from 2006 to 2008.

As a professional, he has been a leader in promoting racial equality and advancing minorities in the workplace, writing an important law review article about ending racial discrimination in jury selection.

The Judge’s critics know all of this, which is why they’re talking about politics instead of Judge Kavanaugh’s credentials. But by the end of this week’s testimony, Americans will know the real story of his exceptional career in public service.

[Thanos]

Speaking of total capitulation again, thanks to the usual Democrat gutlessness that will rear it's head when it comes time to vote, Kavanaugh will be confirmed anyway. You've already won so don't whine like a snowflake about a few days of discomfort over the "lack of civility" at a pointless hearing with a pre-determined outcome.

[BartSimpson]

Thanos Thanos:

Speaking of total capitulation again, thanks to the usual Democrat gutlessness that will rear it's head when it comes time to vote, Kavanaugh will be confirmed anyway. You've already won so don't whine like a snowflake about a few days of discomfort over the "lack of civility" at a pointless hearing with a pre-determined outcome.

What's ironic is that up until the Democrats got rid of the 60-vote threshold for Senate confirmations the minority party had an equal voice in these appointments.

But they 'went nuclear' and changed the rule to a 50-vote threshold so they could ratify a raft of radical left Obama appointees.

At the time they did this a lot of Democrats warned their leadership that someday the decision would come back to bite them in the ass and today is that day.

Now the Democrats don't hold any power in the Senate and that's all their own fault for assuming that they were going to be the majority party forever.

They were wrong. And for a change the GOP is not letting them get away with it.

[xerxes]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

On a more reasoned note:

$1:

Today, Judge Brett Kavanaugh appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the beginning of his confirmation hearing for the U.S. Supreme Court. Predictably, Democrats attempted to thwart even holding a hearing on the Judge’s nomination, rather than focusing on his record.

It’s easy to see why: Judge Kavanaugh has a long, clear history as an independent and impartial arbiter of the law. He ruled against the Republican National Committee in one campaign-finance case and in favor of a liberal pro-choice group, Emily’s List, in another. He has ruled in favor of environmentalist plaintiffs in some cases and in favor of Western landowners and coal miners in others.

He bases his rulings on the law—not politics, policy, or identity. Despite being appointed by a Republican President, Judge Kavanaugh ruled at least 23 times against Bush Administration agencies from 2006 to 2008.

As a professional, he has been a leader in promoting racial equality and advancing minorities in the workplace, writing an important law review article about ending racial discrimination in jury selection.

The Judge’s critics know all of this, which is why they’re talking about politics instead of Judge Kavanaugh’s credentials. But by the end of this week’s testimony, Americans will know the real story of his exceptional career in public service.

Know who else had an exemplary career as a jurist? Merrick Fucking Garland. He never even got a hearing because of the GOP and now they’re crying because the Democrats are saying mean things about Kavanaugh? They can go to hell.

[BRAH]

Dick Durbin Admits: Democrats Plotted to Disrupt Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court Hearing

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Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) admitted Tuesday in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court that he and other Democrats participated in a conference call on how to disrupt the hearings.
Durbin was responding to a question by Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who cited an NBC News tweet from earlier in the morning that reported that Senate Democrats had planned over the Labor Day weekend to use protests and interruptions.

https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/04/dick-durbin-admits-democrats-plotted-to-disrupt-brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-hearing/
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Democrat collusion.
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[Tricks]

xerxes xerxes:

Know who else had an exemplary career as a jurist? Merrick Fucking Garland. He never even got a hearing because of the GOP and now they’re crying because the Democrats are saying mean things about Kavanaugh? They can go to hell.

Some of the sanctimonious garbage they were spewing while conveniently ignoring this was pretty funny to watch.

[BRAH]

xerxes xerxes:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

On a more reasoned note:

$1:

Today, Judge Brett Kavanaugh appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the beginning of his confirmation hearing for the U.S. Supreme Court. Predictably, Democrats attempted to thwart even holding a hearing on the Judge’s nomination, rather than focusing on his record.

It’s easy to see why: Judge Kavanaugh has a long, clear history as an independent and impartial arbiter of the law. He ruled against the Republican National Committee in one campaign-finance case and in favor of a liberal pro-choice group, Emily’s List, in another. He has ruled in favor of environmentalist plaintiffs in some cases and in favor of Western landowners and coal miners in others.

He bases his rulings on the law—not politics, policy, or identity. Despite being appointed by a Republican President, Judge Kavanaugh ruled at least 23 times against Bush Administration agencies from 2006 to 2008.

As a professional, he has been a leader in promoting racial equality and advancing minorities in the workplace, writing an important law review article about ending racial discrimination in jury selection.

The Judge’s critics know all of this, which is why they’re talking about politics instead of Judge Kavanaugh’s credentials. But by the end of this week’s testimony, Americans will know the real story of his exceptional career in public service.

Know who else had an exemplary career as a jurist? Merrick Fucking Garland. He never even got a hearing because of the GOP and now they’re crying because the Democrats are saying mean things about Kavanaugh? They can go to hell.

That's a fair point, though when Obama had his nominee it was during the upcoming Presidential election where this is during the upcoming midterms. Still it's fun to watch the Left melting down being hauled out especially the women protesting about their vaginas have rights via abortion but they have nothing to worry about because no men Left or Right are thinking about their vaginas.

[N_Fiddledog]

There is one blatant difference between the Republican strategy of using the rules to work for them in the Garland case and Democrat strategy of attempting to stimy, delay or even circumvent the rules as they are trying here.

The Republican strategy worked.

Screaming and Whining Aren't Actually Strategies

$1:

This week, Democrats pulled out all the stops in their attempts to stop President Trump's pick, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, from gaining a seat on the Supreme Court. Now, Democrats have no power to stop Kavanaugh's ascension; thanks to former Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., Democrats invoked the so-called nuclear option in order to reduce the burden for approving judicial nominees down to a simple majority. This has left Democrats and their allies with two options and two options only: screaming and whining.

First, the screaming.

Democratic Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., both of whom have already announced they will not support Kavanaugh's nomination, attempted to shut down the Senate Judiciary Committee Kavanaugh hearing. Harris immediately called for an adjournment so that she could supposedly review more of Kavanaugh's documents. Then Booker jumped in. By the end of the first 40 minutes of the hearing, Harris had interrupted eight times; Booker 10 times; Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., 13 times; Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, six times; Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., three times; Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., twice; Se. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. once; and Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., once. Apparently, all were acting at the behest of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who was attempting to run out the shot clock ... or something.


That was just the beginning. Women's March activist and terrorist sympathizer Linda Sarsour showed up to scream at Republicans; she was arrested. Several more feminist protesters showed up dressed as cast members of "The Handmaid's Tale"; other feminists simply screamed at the top of their lungs during the hearing, forcing their ejection. Planned Parenthood Action tweeted, "This is what the resistance looks like, and we're going to fight like hell to #StopKavanuagh."

The screaming, needless to say, did not work.

And so, the Democrats deployed the next prong of their attack: whining. First, a bevy of leftist commentators on Twitter deployed to inform Americans that Zina Bash, a former Kavanaugh law clerk, was secretly utilizing a white supremacy signal while sitting behind Kavanaugh. Amy Siskind of The Weekly List tweeted, "What fresh hell is this!!!??? Kavanaugh's assistant Zina Bash giving the white power sign right behind him during the hearing? This alone should be disqualify!!!" Eugene Gu, a Twitter celebrity doctor, called the supposed sign a "national outrage and a disgrace to the rule of law." Video of Bash earned millions of views on Twitter within a few hours.

There's only one problem: Bash is half-Mexican and half-Jewish, and her paternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors. Oops.

But more whining was in order. Fred Guttenberg, the father of a Parkland shooting victim, stated that he tried to introduce himself to Kavanaugh but Kavanaugh wouldn't shake his hand. Again, there was only one problem: That never happened. White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah explained: "As Judge Kavanaugh left for his lunch break, an unidentified individual approached him. Before the Judge was able to shake his hand, security had intervened."

Here's the truth: Judicial hearings are largely useless at this point. Thanks to the destruction of Reagan nominee Judge Robert Bork in 1987, judicial nominees know not to answer direct questions about judicial rulings and philosophy, and senators know to only ask questions most likely to land them on television. With that in mind, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., should simply bring up Kavanaugh for a vote and end this circus.

But he won't. The circus will continue. Our politics will continue to degrade. Anybody who thinks President Trump is the sole performer under the big top should realize that the circus has three rings, and Democrats occupy at least one of them.

https://townhall.com/columnists/benshap ... s-n2515868