Posted on 10/04/2018 4:56:53 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
I was deeply honored to stand at the White House July 9 with my wife, Ashley, and my daughters, Margaret and Liza, to accept President Trump’s nomination to succeed my former boss and mentor, Justice Anthony Kennedy, on the Supreme Court. My mom, Martha—one of the first women to serve as a Maryland prosecutor and trial judge, and my inspiration to become a lawyer—sat in the audience with my dad, Ed.
That night, I told the American people who I am and what I believe. I talked about my 28-year career as a lawyer, almost all of which has been in public service. I talked about my 12 years as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, often called the second most important court in the country, and my five years of service in the White House for President George W. Bush. I talked about my long record of advancing and promoting women, including as a judge—a majority of my 48 law clerks have been women—and as a longtime coach of girls’ basketball teams.
As I explained that night, a good judge must be an umpire—a neutral and impartial arbiter who favors no political party, litigant or policy. As Justice Kennedy has stated, judges do not make decisions to reach a preferred result. Judges make decisions because the law and the Constitution compel the result. Over the past 12 years, I have ruled sometimes for the prosecution and sometimes for criminal defendants, sometimes for workers and sometimes for businesses, sometimes for environmentalists and sometimes for coal miners. In each case, I have followed the law. I do not decide cases based on personal or policy preferences...
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Well, far too many here at FR work for "Pearl-Clutchers R Us".
But Mitch has been pivotal. He is the one who delayed the Garland appointment, he took s**t everyday for it, and still did not cave. He has quietly and efficiently gotten almost 100 Circuit and Appelate judges confirmed to the court, serving now! Now two Supreme Court justices, Mitch would not call the vote if he was not 100% sure he had them.
"My job of getting Constitutional judges on the bench is of utmost priority if we do nothing else, judges will have a lasting generational impact on our nation." McConnell
He has a right to show emotion. Emotion is normal and natural. Anger at being unjustly accused is the right response.
What I saw on senator dicky Blue Menthol’s face was anger and hate. He is unfit to be a senator.
Bush One and Bush Two made phone calls in his defense.
Center-left Senator Susan Collins spoke forcefully about voting for him.
Kavanaugh calls the center-left Anthony Kennedy “my mentor.”
“I am getting apprehensive about Kavanaugh.”
I’ve been in the “iffy” category since his nomination — never considered him as conservative. But I think it’s more a case of him being a-political and politically tone deaf. He immerses himself in the technicalities of the law, and politics isn’t his thing. If it were, he’d have hired a different attorney than the left-wing hag he chose.
The SCOTUS position shouldn’t be political, but to achieve a confirmation it’s ultra-political. I’m surprised he didn’t know that going in. He had to have studied Bork and Thomas hearings.
They most certainly deserved the a$$-chewing. They’ve deserved it for years. He has nothing for which to apologize.
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