Posted on 07/09/2018 6:13:04 PM PDT by dirtboy
Trump nominates Kavenaugh
Yep, I wasn’t sure if it was just my cynical self that saw that.......
Well ... Clarence Thomas went to Yale. Gorsuch went to Harvard.
Yeah. For a guy with all these accomplishments, a very bland little speech. I guess the days of Lincolnesque oratory is over. Now it’s all about coaching kiddies at soccer.
https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/06/scotus-contender-brett-kavanaugh-on-gun
"In Heller," Kavanaugh noted, "the Supreme Court held that handguns—the vast majority of which today are semi-automatic—are constitutionally protected because they have not traditionally been banned and are in common use by law-abiding citizens. There is no meaningful or persuasive constitutional distinction between semi-automatic handguns and semi-automatic rifles. Semi-automatic rifles, like semi-automatic handguns, have not traditionally been banned and are in common use by law-abiding citizens for self-defense in the home, hunting, and other lawful uses. Moreover, semi-automatic handguns are used in connection with violent crimes far more than semi-automatic rifles are. It follows from Heller's protection of semi-automatic handguns that semi-automatic rifles are also constitutionally protected and that D.C.'s ban on them is unconstitutional."
Although Heller suggested that various "longstanding" gun restrictions would pass constitutional muster, Kavanaugh said, D.C.'s gun registration system does not qualify. "Because the vast majority of states have not traditionally required and even now do not require registration of lawfully possessed guns," he wrote, "D.C.'s registration law—which is the strictest in the Nation and mandates registration of all guns—does not satisfy the history- and tradition-based test set forth in Heller."
Ann No neck Coulter liked him and she likes Romney.
I liked the gal, this guy scares me, he has a liberal smell to him. Bush, Bush
But I will say Trump made it hard for them to attack him.
Levin said any of the four would be good, but he has questions for this pick.
My prediction. He will not pass the vote.
“Is this the guy who at one time clerked for Kennedy?”
Yes, you know he got support from Justice Kennedy. Said a backer of the Second Amendment and rule of law with immigration.
Expect Rat heads to commence exploding like a string of firecrackers.
I was hoping for an outsider myself.
And because I notice these things - he should have touched up his roots before he went on tv!
disappointing. the last thing we need is another inside the beltway ivy educated swamp creature who has spent his life on administrative law cases. Yes, I know Scalia fell into that category too so we can only be hopeful. Then again, so did Roberts.
Now the battle begins.
Jeb who?
I dont have a good feeling about this due to his acceptance speech which was full of lib platatudes and the fact that the lib heads are NOT exploding on CNN.
“At times, he (Kavanaugh) has diverged from the Republican party’s ideological line on important cases that have come before him, including on the Affordable Care Act, the 2010 health care law which Kavanaugh has declined to strike down on a number of occasions in which it has come before him.”
It’s about getting him confirmed.
Bingo.
The original "its a Tax and a penalty judge" ....
Dems should love this guy. He’s the best they will get from Trump.
A bushie?
Catholic charities?
Who is this priest that attended and what does he think?
Sounds chummy with Harvard and Georgetown lefties.
You’d have to go back to the Reagan years to find a justice that doesn’t have that Bush “stench”.
breyer is 79 to thomas 70
He can be a Constitutionalist and could still decide that illegal aliens have Constitutional rights and that would destroy US.
Another Catholic?
Why never a Methodist?
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