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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
See also my post at #100
Liberal lawyers can say what ever they want.
Confirm Kavanaugh!
hate to go to NYSlimes but here are the names, and now it is over 1k
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.
Pathetic Democrats.
When you’re up to your neck in alligators, it’s hard to remember you came there to drain the swamp.
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.
Is Turley’s name on there?
It’d be quite surprising.
Laurence Tribe
Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School
I want their names...they should not be practicing.
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.
Can we finally admit Yale and Harvard are not good quality universities?
Can we finally admit universities in general are not producing what they’re supposed to produce?
Thanks....I see my niece at Lewis&Clark Law school is being taught by idiots...someone named Binford
Their day of accountability is soon.
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.
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.
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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.
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
I pretty much dismissed this letter as soon as I heard that it was written by college professors.
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