The incoming justice is sworn in by the outgoing justice, while the executive branch looks on
Posted on 10/11/2018 5:40:22 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Today was Brett Kavanaugh's first day on the Supreme Court, following last night's ceremonial swearing-in by Kavanaugh's mentor Anthony Kennedy. The last month has certainly demonstrated the high stakes of judicial confirmation. But just why is the Court so important? And what would America's founders have to say about that? Here's what I wrote in my column back in Kennedy's marriage-redefining heyday:
Since the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor, Swingin' Anthony Kennedy has been the swingingest swinger on the Supreme Court, the big Numero Cinco on all those 5–4 white-knuckle nail-biting final scores. So naturally Court observers have been paying close attention to his interventions in the Obamacare oral arguments. So far he doesn't sound terribly persuaded by the administration's line:
"The government is saying that the federal government has a duty to tell the individual citizen that it must act, and that is different from what we have in previous cases, and that changes the relationship of the federal government to the individual in a very fundamental way." As John Hinderaker wrote at the Powerline blog, "In that last observation, Kennedy seems to be channeling Mark Steyn." Which is true. As I wrote in National Review only two or three issues back, "I've argued for years in these pages that governmentalized health care fundamentally transforms the relationship between citizen and state in ways that" — and here's the bit Justice Kennedy isn't quite on board with yet — "make it all but impossible to have genuinely conservative government ever again." So I'm naturally heartened to hear him meeting me halfway. This was one of the highlights of a week that a shell-shocked Jeffrey Toobin, crawling out from under the rubble of the solicitor general's presentation, told CNN viewers was "a train wreck" for the government's case.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
The incoming justice is sworn in by the outgoing justice, while the executive branch looks on
And the thing that pisses the Rats off the worst is they can’t get Trump to be concerned about cleaning up the wreckage of the smoldering dumpster fire they created. He just moves on to the NEXT fight (The Wall).
Who knew Kennedy was a swinger?
Please forgive, but I must do this:
Swingin Supremacists - Swingin Safari
Brett Kavanaugh - Bert Kaempfert - BK
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