At this point in time invoking the “founding fathers” does not add any credibility to the wapo agenda.
“At this point in time invoking the “founding fathers” does not add any credibility to the wapo agenda.”
Actually the founders, unlike today’s Democrats, would believe in the rule of law. President Trump took office after receiving the requisite number of electoral votes (i.e. according to the Constitution which is the law of the land). There is no evidence any popular or electoral vote was changed by any alleged “illegal” action by Trump. Therefore he is the legitimate president according to the law of the land and his nomination of Kavanaugh is valid.
The founders would perceive the nomination as valid and would carefully review Judge Kavanaugh’s qualifications for office. If the judge demonstrated a respect for the law, as written, his public and private life indicated he was a person of high integrity (the word they used was virtuous), and there was no indication his opinions were swayed by outside influences, they would confirm him. Most of the founders abhorred sharply partisan ideological politics as practiced today.
Professor Tribe is an advocate of the “living Constitution”, not the written Constitution. He favors the Supreme Court “interpreting” whatever a majority of the Court wishes as the law of the land instead of using the Amendment process to change the document. In essence Tribe is an advocate of the judicial tyranny of today’s federal courts where individual district judges nullify acts of the president or Congress based on opinion, not the letter of the Constitution or letter of laws enacted by Congress.
There is a reason Bill Clinton and Barack Obama did not nominate Professor Tribe to the Supreme Court. His nomination would not have been approved by the Senate.