Posted on 07/08/2019 9:15:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
The following is an exclusive excerpt from Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court (Regnery Publishing, July 9, 2019) by Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino.
This book is based on interviews of more than one hundred people, including the president of the United States, several Supreme Court justices, high-ranking White House and Department of Justice officials, and dozens of senators. The authors also spoke with leaders of advocacy groups and legal experts, with family, friends, and former law clerks of Justice Kavanaugh, and with many others involved in the effort to confirm a successor to Justice Anthony Kennedy.
EXCERPT:
Many things went horribly wrong on Brett Kavanaugh’s road to the Supreme Court. But more importantly, many things went right. It was no accident that, when confronted with the most aggressive, coordinated, and well-funded attack on a judicial nominee in this nation’s history, the effort to confirm Kavanaugh was successful.
There were at least five reasons for this success.
First, the nation had a president who supported the conservative judicial movement. His campaign had assembled a coalition that included that movement, and he embraced the cause of nominating principled originalist judges.
Winning an election, however, is not enough. The appointment of a Supreme Court justice is the work of key members of the president’s senior staff, who must make the nomination and confirmation a priority. Once in office, President Trump put in place a highly qualified team, headed by Don McGahn, who enabled him to fulfill his campaign promise of putting reliable originalists on the Court. And Trump stood by the project when it became politically imperiled.
Second, Republicans controlled the Senate. In today’s polarized environment, the likelihood of a Democrat’s voting for any Republican nominee, however qualified, is minuscule (although there are still plenty of Republicans who will compliantly vote for a Democratic nominee). Controlling the Senate is therefore essential for appointing a conservative to the Court.
Third, an array of organizations made the confirmation of originalist judges a priority. That infrastructure made the Gorsuch and Kavanaugh victories possible. And that infrastructure was the product of thirty-five years of work by the conservative legal movement to establish itself as a potent and well-organized force for changing the judiciary and the legal culture. It nurtured the lawyers who would staff the White House and the Department of Justice, who would be elected to the Senate and become key aides, and who would become judges themselves. And it carried out the slow but crucial task of educating the public on the importance of constitutional principles and the judiciary’s role in upholding them. This relentless work eventually produced the public demand for a president who would make the judiciary a priority.
Winning an election, however, is not enough. The appointment of a Supreme Court justice is the work of key members of the president’s senior staff, who must make the nomination and confirmation a priority. Once in office, President Trump put in place a highly qualified team, headed by Don McGahn, who enabled him to fulfill his campaign promise of putting reliable originalists on the Court. And Trump stood by the project when it became politically imperiled.
Second, Republicans controlled the Senate. In today’s polarized environment, the likelihood of a Democrat’s voting for any Republican nominee, however qualified, is minuscule (although there are still plenty of Republicans who will compliantly vote for a Democratic nominee). Controlling the Senate is therefore essential for appointing a conservative to the Court.
Third, an array of organizations made the confirmation of originalist judges a priority. That infrastructure made the Gorsuch and Kavanaugh victories possible. And that infrastructure was the product of thirty-five years of work by the conservative legal movement to establish itself as a potent and well-organized force for changing the judiciary and the legal culture. It nurtured the lawyers who would staff the White House and the Department of Justice, who would be elected to the Senate and become key aides, and who would become judges themselves. And it carried out the slow but crucial task of educating the public on the importance of constitutional principles and the judiciary’s role in upholding them. This relentless work eventually produced the public demand for a president who would make the judiciary a priority.
Traitor Roberts needs to go
It also helped that the opposition to Kavanuagh's nomination were such uniformly wretched, awful creatures. Put together a photo and video collection of Christine Buzzy Ford, her legal team, and the misfits in the U.S. Senate who were most vocal in their opposition to Kavanaugh. They look and act like a bunch of mutants from the Mos Eisley cantina scene in the original "Star Wars" movie.
How? He's there till he dies.
5 reasons = 3 reasons plus 2 repeats.
He won due to one reason and one reason alone.
GOD.
The prayers of the faithful went into massive overdrive during his hearings.
Crap. Kavanaugh is on the court for one reason - Collins voted for him. And she may pay for it with her seat.
The way I see it there were two reasons:
1) he’s qualified
2) the accusation against him was not remotely credible
The correct way to write your post is:
He's there 'till he dies. How?
First and foremost, everyone (including my cats) knew Blowsey was a big fat liar.
Your batting 1000% we seem to be in agreement on quite a few things today.
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Common core math!
Didn’t help Robert Bork.
Now there’s a scary thought.
“5 reasons = 3 reasons plus 2 repeats.”
At least it is 3+2=5 not 2+2=5 (room 101)
KYPD
So we’re just pretending that Kavanaugh and Gorsuch haven’t sided with the leftist wing of the bench as much as they have?
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"A new book says that first lady Melania Trump told her husband she thought Christine Blasey Ford was lying when she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee against now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
“You know that woman is lying, don’t you?” Melania Trump told President Trump, according to “Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court” by conservative authors Mollie Hemingway, a senior editor at The Federalist, and Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network."
Bump
I’d say the main reason is Kavanaugh himself didn’t play by the rules - instead of groveling and apologizing he went in front of the Senate panel and eviscerated his accusers. Without that display of righteous anger I don’t think he gets confirmed.
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