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AOC's Ugly Delegitimization of SCOTUS
Townhall.com ^ | December 3, 2021 | David Harsanyi

Posted on 12/03/2021 4:28:31 AM PST by Kaslin

The fact that the Supreme Court hasn't ruled on the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health abortion case didn't stop Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from attempting to delegitimize the decision, accusing Brett Kavanaugh of being "credibly accused of sexual assault on multiple accounts" with "corroborated details." Yet the court, says Ocasio-Cortez, "is letting him decide on whether to legalize forced birth in the US."

Of course, "credibly accused" is not any kind of legal standard, unlike, say, liberal notions about due process and the presumption of innocence. Indeed, there is nothing for the FBI to investigate because there are no "corroborated details" that sustain Christine Blasey Ford's accusations against Kavanaugh. Ford alleged to have "100%" certitude that Kavanaugh had assaulted her in the 1980s, yet she possessed 0% memory of any details that could have substantiated her claim -- not even a time nor a place. Every witness the accuser maintained had been at the suburban Maryland party where the alleged attack occurred has, under threat of felony, denied knowledge of the assault and stated they have no recollection of the get-together. This includes Ford's then-best friend Leland Keyser. There is not even a witness who could corroborate that Blasey Ford had ever met Kavanagh.

In the hierarchy of "rights," abortion apparently sits above all others. In the mind of Democrats, then, originalist justices who may potentially overturn Roe v. Wade aren't merely wrong, they're nefarious extremists and thus any smear or tactic is justified in the campaign to stop them.

The groundwork for Ocasio-Cortez to delegitimize the Court was laid by Democratic senators before Blasey Ford or Julie Swetnick emerged and then-Sen. Kamala Harris was reading wholly unsubstantiated gang-rape charges against Kavanaugh into the Congressional Record. There were ludicrous hearings about yearbook jokes and drunken parties that were only meant to discredit any future decisions by the Court. Then there were the extraconstitutional standards Democrats kept inventing. Any nominee of a president who was even "under suspicion" of criminality -- these were the days when Russian collusion was a thing -- were "illegitimate." Ed Markey argued that the nominee was "illegitimate" because the president was "all but named as a co-conspirator."

Ah, the constitutional "all but" standard.

CNN's lascivious chief legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin, who has a personal stake in liberal abortion laws, would go on to claim that "40 percent of the Republican appointees to the Supreme Court have been credibly accused of sexual misconduct," which is a good reminder that Justice Clarence Thomas was also smeared in much the same way. Despite hagiographic accounts of the incident, Anita Hill was not a "credible" accuser either. To this day, no credible person -- and Thomas has had scores of subordinates working for him during his years in government, before and after his confirmation -- has corroborated that Thomas had acted in the ways Hill described. And yet, Democrats continue pushing the revisionist histories.

Today, many Democrats demand that resident Joe Biden pack the courts and destroy the judicial system, or they threaten justices on the steps of the Supreme Court. "I want to tell you Gorsuch! I want to tell you Kavanaugh!" Chuck Schumer said last year. "You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price! You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions!"

Whatever does Schumer mean? And what exactly are justices supposed to do? Take orders from back-benchers and hyperventilating pundits on how they should rule?

There is no ex post facto clause in the Constitution. Kavanaugh was nominated by the duly elected president and confirmed by the duly elected Senate in the same constitutional manner that every Supreme Court justice in history has been nominated and confirmed. Even if you believe that the president's behavior in January 2021 was an attempt "to overthrow the U.S. government," that has absolutely no bearing on the appointments he made in the years 2017, 2018 and 2020.

Ocasio-Cortez also points out that Trump was "elected via minority," which is either another extraconstitutional demand or a sign that the congresswoman is simply unaware that presidents have never been elected by the majority but rather by the Electoral College.

Furthermore, Ocasio-Cortez's assertion that overturning Roe would necessitate "forced birth" -- a new talking point among pro-abortion advocates -- is both factually wrong and morally repugnant. Increasingly, progressives talk about pregnancy as if it were a gruesome affliction, and unborn children as if they were malignant tumors. Whatever the case, a world without Roe would merely allow voters to decide when or how lethal force can be used against the unborn -- because the issue has nothing to do with the constitutional law.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: aoc; brettkavanagh; supremecourt
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When will the voters of AOC' district realize that she is nothing but an ignorant kook?
1 posted on 12/03/2021 4:28:31 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Speaking of her district - don’t ignorant kooks deserve representation, too?

The problem with all you democracy believers is that, now that ignorant kooks form the majority, you must either change your theories of government or accept the rule of ignorant kooks.


2 posted on 12/03/2021 4:31:28 AM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: Kaslin

“When will the voters of AOC’ district realize that she is nothing but an ignorant kook?”

She’s their representative.


4 posted on 12/03/2021 4:35:18 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Levy78

She’s white. As white as me. Having a spanish last name doesn’t make you not white. Ask the first President of Ireland de Valera.


5 posted on 12/03/2021 4:38:34 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Kaslin
I love how these Lib Congressmen (old school name for snark) and Senators show zero respect for the Supreme Court if they do not or will not like a ruling. These types of actions only lead to Anarchy. It is especially interesting that the group who make the law, any law, a law crafted to meet Court rulings only wants to be dismissive of one branches of our government.

There needs to be respect for all the laws, not just the ones they agree with today! But I guess our leaders do not understand the concept of showing respect to gain respect for the system.

6 posted on 12/03/2021 4:39:44 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: Kaslin

THE MISADVENTURES OF AO-COW FART


8 posted on 12/03/2021 4:42:33 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

bump


9 posted on 12/03/2021 4:43:53 AM PST by Kaslin (Joe Biden,s aka president Milk Carton)
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To: Levy78

Spaniards are European. Whether they have moorish blood or whatever, they are white. Sicilians are white under our standards. She’s white.

She has no native American blood. She’s a euro with a Spanish last name. She’s white.


10 posted on 12/03/2021 4:45:21 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Jim Noble

Precisely correct.


11 posted on 12/03/2021 4:45:49 AM PST by TTFlyer (Vote harder, sucker. Yeah, that's the ticket. ..)
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To: MtnClimber

Why do we tolerate these people?

Does it demonstrate our strength?
Or our weakness?

Even dogs know better than to allow their packs to be led by the dumbest dogs.


12 posted on 12/03/2021 4:45:54 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: Levy78

She looks pink to me. I am referring to post#*


13 posted on 12/03/2021 4:48:06 AM PST by Kaslin (Joe Biden,s aka president Milk Carton)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Castilian Spaniards you mean. AOC ain’t Castilian.


14 posted on 12/03/2021 4:50:06 AM PST by TTFlyer (Vote harder, sucker. Yeah, that's the ticket. ..)
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To: Kaslin

Or as my Irish friend used to say. “I’m pink in the summer and blue in the winter”.


15 posted on 12/03/2021 4:50:37 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Levy78

She looks pink to me. (referring to post # 8)


17 posted on 12/03/2021 4:51:59 AM PST by Kaslin (Joe Biden,s aka president Milk Carton)
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To: TTFlyer

That’s a dialect moron.


18 posted on 12/03/2021 4:52:55 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Kaslin

Shut up Kotex! You ignorant slut.


19 posted on 12/03/2021 4:56:29 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: Kaslin

Speaking of Dr. Blase’ Fraud, under oath she swore she had no special knowledge of how to defeat lie detectors when she had led seminars on doing that very thing.

While no longer a Kavanaugh fan due to his alleged malfeasance during the Vince Foster suspicious death investigation, Srednik is amazed that the justice kept his calendars from high school days.


20 posted on 12/03/2021 4:57:08 AM PST by Srednik (Polyglot. Overeducated. Redeemed by Christ. Anticommunist from the womb.)
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