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More than 650 law professors sign letter stating Kavanaugh lacks ‘judicial temperament,’
Washington Examiner ^ | 10/03/2018 | Diana Stancy Correll

Posted on 10/03/2018 8:30:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

More than 650 law professors, including 13 affiliated with Yale Law School and 21 with Harvard Law School, have signed a letter to the Senate arguing that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh should not be confirmed because of his “lack of judicial temperament.”

The professors pointed to Kavanaugh’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week amid allegations of sexual misconduct, where the Yale Law School graduate defended himself and called the attacks a “grotesque and coordinated character assassination.”

“The question at issue was of course painful for anyone. But Judge Kavanaugh exhibited a lack of commitment to judicious inquiry,” reads the letter, published by the New York Times on Wednesday. “Instead of being open to the necessary search for accuracy, Judge Kavanaugh was repeatedly aggressive with questioners.

“Even in his prepared remarks, Judge Kavanaugh described the hearing as partisan, referring to it as ‘a calculated and orchestrated political hit,’ rather than acknowledging the need for the Senate, faced with new information, to try to understand what had transpired,” the letter reads. “Instead of trying to sort out with reason and care the allegations that were raised, Judge Kavanaugh responded in an intemperate, inflammatory and partial manner, as he interrupted and, at times, was discourteous to senators.”

The letter states that judges are required to step aside if there is the possibility that they may be viewed as or display impartiality.

“We have differing views about the other qualifications of Judge Kavanaugh,” the letter states. “But we are united, as professors of law and scholars of judicial institutions, in believing that he did not display the impartiality and judicial temperament requisite to sit on the highest court of our land.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: academicbias; duac; feminists; homoactivists; kavanaugh; lawprofessors; nevertrumper; scotus; sedition; supremecourt; temperament; treason; witchhunt
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To: Maskot

See also my post at #100


101 posted on 10/04/2018 5:47:32 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: SeekAndFind

Liberal lawyers can say what ever they want.


102 posted on 10/04/2018 5:48:21 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SeekAndFind

Confirm Kavanaugh!


103 posted on 10/04/2018 5:53:38 AM PDT by Lopeover (POTUS needs Republicans, the Midterm Election is about allegiance to the America First agenda!)
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To: SeekAndFind

hate to go to NYSlimes but here are the names, and now it is over 1k

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/03/opinion/kavanaugh-law-professors-letter.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur


104 posted on 10/04/2018 6:30:10 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: huldah1776

Thought I would read the comments and one stood out:

GregP 27405 24 minutes ago
1000 names on the letter but there is one that is not. Dershowitz refused to sign it. That one name to me means more than the thousand that signed. A Democrat who has the ability to suspend his partisanship refusing to sign has more weight than 1000 partisans who are willing to sign. Letter will sway no votes just reinforce those who have already convicted him in the Court of Public Opinion. Rather shameful and Dershowitz refusal kind of underlines that.


105 posted on 10/04/2018 6:33:15 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Wow.. they are really grasping at straws now. Pretty sad. No evidence on initial charge, then try Plan B related to the reaction to the false charge. They are trying this on the Russia probe also (ok.. no evidence, but OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE!)

Pathetic Democrats.

106 posted on 10/04/2018 6:36:56 AM PDT by Doctor Freeze
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To: SeekAndFind

When you’re up to your neck in alligators, it’s hard to remember you came there to drain the swamp.


107 posted on 10/04/2018 6:57:50 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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To: SeekAndFind

I didn’t watch a lot of this fiasco about Judge Kavanaugh’s hearing,but from what I saw,it seems he was the one with the good judgement & temperament.


108 posted on 10/04/2018 7:09:09 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: huldah1776

Is Turley’s name on there?

It’d be quite surprising.


109 posted on 10/04/2018 7:32:58 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: huldah1776

Laurence Tribe
Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School


110 posted on 10/04/2018 7:35:21 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: SeekAndFind

I want their names...they should not be practicing.


111 posted on 10/04/2018 7:47:42 AM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: SeekAndFind

More than 650 law professors sign letter stating Kavanaugh lacks ‘judicial temperament,’

Judicial temperament?? I’ve seen the so-called judicial crap forced on the people of this country.


112 posted on 10/04/2018 7:55:45 AM PDT by JayAr36 (We have the best government that money can buy.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Can we finally admit Yale and Harvard are not good quality universities?


113 posted on 10/04/2018 7:57:08 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: reasonisfaith

Can we finally admit universities in general are not producing what they’re supposed to produce?


114 posted on 10/04/2018 7:58:56 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: huldah1776

Thanks....I see my niece at Lewis&Clark Law school is being taught by idiots...someone named Binford


115 posted on 10/04/2018 7:58:58 AM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: 1Old Pro

Their day of accountability is soon.


116 posted on 10/04/2018 8:00:00 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: goodnesswins

I want their names...they should not be practicing.
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At the bottom of the letter, they signed their names and which law school they are from.


117 posted on 10/04/2018 8:01:09 AM PDT by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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To: oldtech

I didn’t watch a lot of this fiasco about Judge Kavanaugh’s hearing,but from what I saw,it seems he was the one with the good judgement & temperament.
__________

You missed a historic judiciary hearing. You might consider watching video replays since I don’t think summarizing it can do it justice. It was gut wrenching.


118 posted on 10/04/2018 8:04:39 AM PDT by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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To: KittyKares

Yes, got it....thanks..here is one of the Legal Prof’s teaching my niece....

http://www.willamette.edu/law/faculty/profiles/binford/index.html


119 posted on 10/04/2018 8:39:46 AM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I pretty much dismissed this letter as soon as I heard that it was written by college professors.


120 posted on 10/04/2018 8:41:07 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks ( The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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