Posted on 09/09/2018 2:55:28 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Under the unusual circumstances surrounding his selection, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh should have agreed to recuse himself from deciding cases involving the investigation of President Trump. The reason Kavanaugh asserted at his confirmation hearing for refusing to make such a pledge — that it would violate the imperative of judicial independence — is entirely unconvincing.
In turn, senators should decline to approve Kavanaugh’s nomination unless he does so. And, since that’s not likely to happen, in the event that a case involving the Trump investigation were to come before a Justice Kavanaugh, he should not participate — for his own good and the good of the institution he is poised to join.
The unusual circumstances are these: The president selected a Supreme Court nominee while under criminal investigation. The nominee he chose happened to be one who has expressed clear — and controversial — views about the wisdom of investigating a sitting president.
In addition, that nominee suggested that the leading case on the president’s responsibility to comply with a subpoena, U.S. v. Nixon, “maybe ... was wrongly decided — heresy though it is to say so.” Finally, although I wouldn’t go so far down this conspiracy rabbit hole myself, the nominee did not appear on the original lists of potential Supreme Court choices; his name was only added to a list released after the special counsel investigation was launched....
(Excerpt) Read more at houstonchronicle.com ...
Kagan recused herself from 25 cases when she first joined the court, as she had served as the government’s chief advocate prior to her appointment.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130205734
this is leftists trying to control the narrative.
The best thing to do is to say NO.
Dont argue with them.
Say No.
Dems retreated after the civil rights era among others, but their tactics from that regrouping/retreating time are now blossoming into full socialism and all that comes with it.
The argument is not ‘retreating’, but what will they do next to destroy America ... or in the words of one ‘activist’, “make America what it was meant to be” ...
Oh and Ginsburg should?
No more Beauregard recusals.
Which gave her cover to not recuse herself when it really counted.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2012/06/elena_kagan_the_obamacare_recusal_that_wasnt.html
Ironic - a delusional nutcase claims that the common sense Truth is....unconvincing.....and a sign of some serious ulterior motivation.....
Heard "Lady Madonna" playing in my head,,,
Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head
might play with the words to work in cockroaches and how they run along with some other traits of the loony Left.
They haven't lost.
It's up to Trump and the forces loyal to him to cram it down their throats and to make them choke on it.
Until that happens, we really can't declare a winner.
Yep. And the fact that Obama was a false president means his 2 Supreme Court justices are also null and void.
Hmmm......... from Houston a voice of stupidity polluting the readership
“When will these people realize that they LOST?”
Hopefully when they get pounded into the dirt in the midterms.
Nor should Ginsburg,Kagan or Bryer.
Nor should Ginsburg,Kagan,Bryer or Sotomayor.
That’s a man, baby!
The Houston Comical is one seriously worthless birdcage liner.
Not Kavanaugh, but is Gorsuch ok?
And, if the Dem conspiracy unravels enough to implicate Obama, will Kagan and Sotomayor recuse? And, if a case involves a Clinton, will Ginsburg be expected to recuse?
Agree Ginsburg, Kagan and Sotomayor should all recuse themselves, using the same logic. (Or far more basic logic.)
Well, you *do* have to give the author credit for being considerate of other people's time. By making the first sentence a lie, she saved us the time of having to read any of the rest of the article.
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