Posted on 09/04/2018 8:26:54 PM PDT by caww
(Senator Ben Sasse Schools the Senate Judiciary Committee on the role of the Judiciary in the American constitutional republic..)
Sasse describes the “elegant and fair process” the Founders created, a system in which Congress makes law, the executive humbly enforces the law, and the judiciary applies “written laws to facts and cases that are actually before it.” And in this process the key question is “not what did Brett Kavanaugh think eleven years ago on some policy matter. The question before us is whether or not he has the temperament and the character to take his policy views and political preferences and put them in a box marked ‘irrelevant’ and set it aside every morning when he puts on the black robe.”
An enormous amount of modern political dysfunction can be traced to the willful, generations-long, bipartisan inversion of our constitutional structure — where the political branch that was intended to be the most powerful (Congress) is subordinated to both the executive and the judiciary.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
So worth a Listen ....and lean.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlAHS6pT5A4&feature=youtu.be
Yes, he was probably most impressive of all of them.
I assume he was lecturing Sotomayor and Kagan?
Ben Sasse was great!!!
Actually, all the Republicans who spoke acted like adults and professionals. Every Rat who spoke was a factless nasty drama queen. What a sickening disgraceful lot they are!!!
Yep. Sasse could have had potential but he has blown it. Total out of touch putz who could have been a fantastic and relatable senator.
I don’ know much about Sasse. What did he blow and how did he blow it? Thanks.
The left knows the intended role of the courts, they just reject it. They don’t give a rat’s ass what the Founders intended. They want to turn America into something else, and it ain’t pretty.
I would imagine he was ‘lecturing’ the rude SOBs that did everything in their power to disrupt the hearings today.
The cowards sent a Black Woman to interrupt BEFORE the intro was presented, then a Black Male to further it along - doesn’t take a genius to figure out that using the two Blacks in this manner makes it virtually impossible to chastise them without getting charged with racism.
Oh, yes the Faux USMC Combat Vet from CT also was on rambling something about honor and responsibilities. Yes, LIBERALISM is a mental disease.
Did he ever clear the ‘Peanut Gallery’ out?
The first outbreak from them should have resulted in ALL getting thrown out - may not be ‘fair’ BUT if all get bounced they may sort of police themselves if there is a next time.
He is an antiTrumper. Has nothing nice to say about our president ever
Listened to as much as I could stand until he started bashing Trump and assumed that Judge Kavanaugh agrees with him.
Not even close to the well-spoken, well-reasoned Ted Cruz.
And I say that as not happy with all of Ted Cruz’s decisions of late.
Cruz decimated the Democrats.
Sasse sounded like a politician.
But don’t we need Wise Latina?
Really?
If he knows what’s good for him, he’d best find a way to get on the Trump Train or he may end up like Saint Jeffy Flake—political road kill.
He gets off on being anti-Trump. Loves the media attention and adoration. He’s a nutjob.
He’d better be careful, his anti-Trump “cleverness” could easily blow up in his face. Just ask Saint Jeffy Flake.
I wonder if he understands that DJT has a NINETY PERCENT approval rating among Republicans.
Ha! The self-described “wise Latina.” Let others provide this type of accolade.
AUDITIONING ?
Wasn’t he just warning Trump about criticizing Sessions? And said doing so made American like a banana republic?
You can’t take the ass out of Sasse
He is an antiTrumper. Has nothing nice to say about our president ever
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