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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Probably appropriate but for these Democrats, apologies are just taken as an opening to attack.
I can’t remember anything he said that he shouldn’t have said.
I can’t remember anything he said that he shouldn’t have said.
This should have been written after he was confirmed.
Maybe that will help Flakey climb down off the “he’s struggling” ledge.
Probably the part about the “revenge of the clintons”.
Even though it’s true.
I realize he’s got incredible respect for the justice he clerked for, but I’d dare him to find the constitutional links for some of Kennedy’s decisions.
So honestly, his repeated links back to Kennedy’s words which did not always match his actions, leaves me more than a bit nervous that he’s going to go Kennedy.
Then again, considering the great lengths that liberals have gone to bias a future sitting justice against their many causes, he might actually do what Kennedy did not, and truly take such a viewpoint that the court is not there as an activist nor law maker, but an adjudicator of if laws meet constitutional muster.
No paywall for this article.
Thank you Brett Stephens and WSJ.
Mark Levin just read it.
Agree, and this might dampen some of the fire that has been building on the Right for the November elections.
He will be to the right of Kennedy. Somewhere between Thomas and Roberts
If mob rule determines how Senators vote on issues we no longer have a country, that simple
It made me so angry to see the Kavanaughs with grim faces walking to the committee hearing, vs. how happy they were on the day the nomination was revealed. And the Left is still gonna be after him after he hopefully gets sworn in - but hearing the name “Justice Kavanaugh” time after time will drive them even more loony than they are now, so there’s that.
Ugh, apologies.
I mean I guess if he had to write it to win over a few votes, but the last thing conservatives need these days is to be apologizing for anything.
So he is essentially offering an apology to the very RINO’s who helped put him in this awful position.
He better not be impartial after we went through all of this. I want a bitter, hanging judge out for revenge.
I think he did.
This was a sly move to get Flake, Collins and Murkowski on board.
Possibly Manchin.
Yep take this arrow for the team so I can be on the supreme Court.
“I revere the Constitution. I believe that an independent and impartial judiciary is essential to our constitutional republic. If confirmed by the Senate to serve on the Supreme Court, I will keep an open mind in every case and always strive to preserve the Constitution of the United States and the American rule of law.”
AHAAAAAAAA! Vote Kava-NAAWW!
Just wait ‘til the SNL skits!
Agreed, never apologize..he did nothing wrong in how he testified.
He didn’t need to do this, but the fact that he did proves that he’s a truly humble and honorable man.
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