Posted on 07/09/2018 7:26:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to replace retiring Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on the Supreme Court comes at a tense moment. It could drastically shift the court’s tenuous ideological balance, and it comes not long after Senate Republicans disgracefully blocked President Barack Obama from making a court pick in his final year. More than ever, the court is in danger of becoming viewed as an instrument of politics rather than an independent, nonpartisan branch of government.
That is why senators must be even more exacting than usual when they evaluate Mr. Kavanaugh. They should insist on a justice who would rule with modesty and genuine independence of mind — and a willingness to resist abuses of power by this and future presidents. “I believe that an independent judiciary is the crown jewel of our constitutional republic,” Mr. Kavanaugh said following his introduction. He must show he means it.
Mr. Kavanaugh meets the basic qualifications for high court service. A Yale Law School graduate who clerked for Mr. Kennedy, he has served for 12 years on the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The country certainly could have expected worse from President Trump. Yet Mr. Kavanaugh came from a list of potential nominees preapproved by conservative activist groups. Their goal is to tilt the court as far right as possible as quickly as possible.
Mr. Trump’s first nominee, Neil M. Gorsuch, was, in his confirmation hearings, the least forthcoming Supreme Court nominee in recent memory. Mr. Kavanaugh must do better. Fortunately, he comes with a huge record.
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I think it reasonable to believe the “point after which everything went to h311” so far as the US Supreme Court is concerned would be Baker v Carr.
That one got decided in 1962. Justice Frankfurter warned the Court it was “getting into the political thicket.” His “revenge” came in 2000 when the courts had to figure out if GWB or AlGore won the election.
Not too biased, ehhhhhh ???
Looks like the comPost is worried.
**WE need RBG to die. Millions of lives are at stake!**
And Amy Coney Barrett to replace her!
Yes. Who gives damn what the Wash Post thinks (and I use the word “think” loosely).
They had no problem endorsing Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as far left a justice as ever has sat on the SC. Her record is exactly parallel to that of the Communist Party on many of their positions. Paint her Red.
Kagan - OK for a lib but not my preference re any judicial balance in her though processes.
Breyer- far-left loon.
The Wash. Post didn’t oppose Sotomayor for her “racist” comment about being a “proud Latino woman” instead of saying “a proud American woman”.
Talk about hypocrisy. It is alive and well at the Wash. Post, and for those of us who read it during the Vietnam War (and Cambodia/Laos wars), we know that you secretly favored the North Vietnamese communists because you never opposed their naked and covert aggression throughout SE Asia including Thailand.
Nor did you oppose their genocidal extermination policies after the war ended, costing an estimated 2-2.5 MILLION lives plus the imprisonment and torture of hundreds of thousands, if not more than a million, who survived their slave labor camps.
The Washington Post has as much blood on its hands and writings as had the New York Times denying (or refusing to cover), the Ukrainian Famine/Holomador genocide and the Holocaust of European Jews, Gypsies (esp. the Roma), homosexuals, the White Rose resistance group, anti-Nazi Christians, Poles and political prisoners.
The Washington Post can never “wash” away the bloodstains, journalist lies and propaganda, and biases that have been their hallmarks since the 1960’s.
You left off: "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH" ....
Replace Breyer with Hardiman
and replace Thomas with Thapar.
Indeed. I was holding out hope that, just for a laugh, Pres. Trump would pick Hillary. Leftie heads would explode!!!
/ lol
What’s wrong with being right may I ask
all yo need to know about the new justice could be seen in the tie POTUS was wearing last night. “Purple”
He’s as “deep state” as it gets-and his nomination will sail through Congress for approval in “record time”-before the August recess
Yep - too bad we already have a number “on our side” trying to find ways to cause doubt about him.....they’re in as quick as the left who was prepared for the last 3 weeks....
>> the court is in danger of becoming viewed as an instrument of politics<<
The court became political with Marbury v Madison.
And Ruthie with anyone without brain damage
“Just imagine a President Hillary nominating Loretta Lynch say to the bench. What a miracle that we were saved from that!”
Yeah, a Fat Black Commie to go with Obola’s Fat Hispanic Commie and his fat Secular Progressive Capo Commie! The SCOTUS would have had a Troika of Marxists.
However, a court is not to be political.
It should always be above politics.
The fact that the Washington Post is not VIOLENTLY opposing Brett Kavanaugh is very concerning to me.
It's nowhere near panicked enough.
I'm troubled.
“It’s nowhere near panicked enough. I’m troubled.”
give it little bit of time ... the leftist fake stream media, the leftist Dem apparatus and the howling mobs all will take a few hours to get going ... but once they get wound up, the crescendo will be something to behold ...
And the OTHER eight?
Chopped LIVER??
“More than ever, the court is in danger of becoming viewed as an instrument of politics rather than an independent, nonpartisan branch of government.”
LOL. That’s brand new, no?
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