Posted on 03/15/2017 6:50:25 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
Well, the best and the brightest on the Left are amassing their forces for a full-scale frontal assault on President Trump's first Supreme Court nomination. The problem for them is, they don’t have much ammunition.
Former President Obama's favorite think tank, the Center for American Progress (CAP), almost tried to do it algebraicly in their seminar on “Trump, Gorsuch, and the Concentration of Economic Power.” The problem, as that formulation suggests, is that even if you buy the basic premise, you have to admit that the “economic power” got concentrated under their favorite president.
The panelists who kicked around the topic didn’t have much more luck when they got "into the weeds," as it were. For example, Deepak Gupta claimed that Judge Gorsuch alleged that "class actions were nothing but a free ride to riches." Actually, that's not a hard case to make. Gupta also claimed that "cash-strapped public administrators" were struggling to do their jobs in regulating business. This is only possible to say with a straight face at CAP, where they never have to encounter any of these beleaguered bureaucrats.
Todd A. Cox of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund claims that the Congressional Review Act (CRA), whereby Congress can overturn recent regulations that cost $100 million, is an attack on civil rights. As most of the federal regulations in question are environmental ones, this too is a bit of a reach.
Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia. If you would like to comment on this article, e-mail mal.kline@academia.org.
Was the character assassination of Judge Bork the Left’s last stand against SCOTUS nominees?
It is a wonderful thing to see the left walk away from a group mental masturbation session without a “happy ending”.
Judge Bork.
Maybe we can collect some of the interest on that bill.
That doesn’t keep them from trying again and again........................
Since the pubic hair on coke can testimony, it's been all down "Hill".
I just hope he’s not a Trojan Horse because he may be my friends. Look at his radical church. It is safe to say that he is gay friendly WHIW.
WHIH > FWIW (for what it’s worth).
Nope - they were successful in their atrocity - they fully expect such tactics to still be viable.
Somehow they need to be encouraged to shoot their entire wad on this nominee. If they do that, the next one may be a cake walk for our side.
You know, there's a way this can be resolved, where the regulation COULD remain, for instance, with EPA regulations that have destroyed the ability of land owners to use their land. How about if Congress were to amend the law, stating that IF third parties wish for these regulations to stay in effect, all they need to do is pay the financial damages to the land owners, which technically the government that restricted the use, should have done in the first place.
If the land owner is "made whole" by these 3rd parties, then the regulation would be allowed to stand. I wonder how much the Sierra Club is willing to pay for the snail darter?
The best part of that law is that it's congress taking some of their power back (which they never should have ceded in the first place) from the bureaucrats!
Mark
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