Posted on 09/05/2018 12:33:06 PM PDT by Kaslin
If you tuned in on day one of the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Brett Kavanaugh Tuesday, you watched Democrats do everything possible to attack his legal record. Worse, they smeared his character, integrity and repeatedly made a number of false accusations.
Putting the distraction, grandstanding and protests aside, there's a lot of inconvenient facts the far left -- including Democrat Senators Cory Booker and Kamala Harris -- don't want Americans to know about Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
The majority of his law clerks have been women
"I’ve been very aggressive about hiring the best and understanding that the best include women," Kavanaugh said during testimony Wednesday. "A majority of my clerks have been women. Twenty-five. Twenty-one of them have gone on the clerk at the Supreme Court. They're an awesome group. If confirmed to the Supreme Court, I will continue to do this."
Fifty-two percent of the clerks Judge Kavanaugh has hired have been women.
Judge Kavanaugh's clerks are diverse
Twenty-seven percent of Judge Kavanaugh's law clerks are minorities. Five of them African-American, six Asian-American and two Latino.
His mother was a teacher in a minority school during the Civil Rights Movement
"I am here today with another of my judicial heroes … my mom. Fifty years ago this week, in September 1968, my mom was 26 and I was three. That week, my mom started as a public-school teacher at McKinley Tech High School here in Washington, D.C. 1968 was a difficult time for race relations in our city and our country," Kavanaugh said.
"McKinley Tech had an almost entirely African-American student body. It was east of the park. I vividly remember days as a young boy sitting in the back of my mom’s classroom as she taught American history to a class of African-American teenagers," he continued. "Her students were born before Brown versus Board of Education or Bolling versus Sharpe. By her example, my mom taught me the importance of equality for all Americans — equal rights, equal dignity, and equal justice under law."
He's backed by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
"His intellect is unquestioned. His judgement is highly regarded. And I can personally attest to his character and integrity as a colleague," Rice testified Tuesday as a character witness.
“Here's the Brett Kavanaugh that I know. He is hard-working. He has a sense of humor. He seeks truth in facts.” -Former Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice pic.twitter.com/oEyJEHrdHr— GOP (@GOP) September 4, 2018
He has the highest ranking possible from the American Bar Association
The ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary on Friday gave its highest rating of well-qualified to Kavanaugh, a 53-year-old judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Kavanaugh was nominated July 9 to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who announced his retirement June 27. Kavanaugh is a former Kennedy clerk.
The ABA standing committee evaluates nominees based on professional competence, integrity and judicial temperament.
Serious legal scholars on the left, including Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, support him
When Elena Kagan was dean of Harvard Law School, she was in search of rising conservative legal stars. The traditionally liberal campus, the thinking went, could use a little ideological diversity with more robust debate and the challenge of different viewpoints.
Among Kagan’s hires, as a visiting professor, was a newly appointed federal appeals court judge from Washington named Brett Kavanaugh.
Law students love him
Law students who evaluated Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s classes gave mostly glowing evaluations to the future U.S. Supreme Court nominee.
One student at Georgetown was so impressed that the 2007 evaluation read: “I honestly believe I took a class that was instructed by a future Supreme Court justice." Others rated Kavanaugh as their best professor ever. Students said he was accessible outside of class, evenhanded, fair-minded, well-versed in the materials and smart. One noted his “great hair!”
The New York Times found those comments while reading through about 700 pages of evaluations by about 350 law students who took Kavanaugh’s classes at Harvard, Yale and Georgetown.
He's supported by a self-described liberal feminist and law partner at Arnold & Porter
“Judge Kavanaugh is remarkably committed to promoting women in the legal profession… As his former law clerk to the Committee, the legal profession is fair and more equal because of Judge Kavanaugh.” -Lisa Blatt pic.twitter.com/zlMjjaXaGm— GOP (@GOP) September 5, 2018
Now it makes sense why Linda “Cockroach” Sarsour was such a fly in the ointment.
“Serious legal scholars on the left, including Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, support him”
Uh, oh.
If a candidate doesn’t drive the leftards into a slavering, convulsing, howling, puking, chewing-their-own-lips-off, full-blown “Exorcist” seizure, that candidate is not morally fit for office.
The Democrats are an embarrassment. I hope their children and grandchildren were watching how rude and uncivil they are.
Particularly in this last term, I came to believe that if Kagan cannot be completely turned, she can at least become much more moderate. She’s not so nearly far gone as Sotomayor or Ginsburg. Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are the perfect influences for Kagan on the Court, and I think you will see some surprisingly good opinions from her. Not all the time, but more than you would expect.
True, LOL.
If, somehow, RBG retires the left is gonna go even more nuts on the next one, too.
One has to wonder why the LIEberal disruptors, both Senators and others, believe that their boorish, “rude and uncivil” behavior is going to cause Americans to support their cause.
To these boorish, “rude and uncivil” LIEberals I say “Have at it! You are gaining support for OUR cause, not your cause!”
Those of us “deplorables” who supported and voted for Donald J. Trump are going to rise up on November 6, 2018 and retire a bunch more of you. You are about to become a footnote on page 265 of the “History of the USA in the 21st Century!”
WOW
Yep the MSM will never print that.
I understand what you are saying, and I am NOT trying to nit-pick, but...
A more accurate representation would be the percentage of women who graduate and successfully pass the BAR versus the percentage of men who do the same.
For example, 100 people graduate from law school and pass the BAR, of that 100, 65 are men, and 35 are women. In this scenario, women being 52% of your clerks would be an over-representation of women in the workplace.
Using the general percentage of women in the population is used a lot because it points to an injustice that many times does not exist. The standard talking point is that women are under represented in the STEM fields, but no one mentions that women do not enroll in STEM fields in the same rates as men do.
Said another way, while women may be under represented as a percentage of total population in the STEM fields, they are hired at a much higher percentage rate than their equally qualified male counterparts.
“...If a candidate doesn’t drive the leftards into a slavering, convulsing, howling, puking, chewing-their-own-lips-off, full-blown “Exorcist” seizure, that candidate is not morally fit for office.”
Completely agree with the sentiment, and very much appreciate the verbiage! Truly gifted.
Bravo!!
KYPD
I disagree. Unless one thinks that men are simply better law clerks than women, one would expect there to be an even distribution that is close to the general population (or at least the population of legal personnel out there to choose from)
I would be concerned if he had a statistically significantly greater percentage of women, because that would indicate something other than simple competence was involved (He prefers women around him in the workplace for whatever reason, or he is hewing to a PC line for PR by hiring more women)
Just my two cents...
Coons should not even be there.
Dumbass trying to over-reach executive authority. Libtard from fascist hell.
That sounds a little wacis'.
When I seethese pieces of libtards praising him, it doesn’t make me feel any better about him.
The ratios in STEM categories are not because of institutionalized sexism.
It is self inflicted and voluntary. Namely women do not prefer to go into these fields as a demographic because they don’t like the work and effort to study what they consider to be difficult and boring things that have actual absolute, objective answers.
This is why.
Correct.
Aw, come on. Even leftards have to pay homage to unquestionably great judges, such as Brandeis, Holmes and Scalia. Kavanaugh might be fit for that august company, so those that know his decisions and are well established in the legal business, such as Justice Kagan, back the hell down and call a spade a spade (oops. racist. bad.).
Unless you can provide the info that ‘Sergio” hinted at, my argument is no different from yours. Statistical the same as the general population.
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