Posted on 07/17/2018 3:26:10 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
More than a 100 civil and human rights groups are urging senators to oppose Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee.
In a Tuesday letter, led by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the groups say Kavanaugh will be a fifth and decisive vote to undermine a host of core rights and legal protections, including economic security and access to healthcare, abortion, voting and labor rights. The groups, which include the NAACP, Lamba Legal and Demand Justice, also the rights of immigrants and persons with disabilities, LGBTQ equality, equal opportunity, affirmative action and environmental protections all could be endangered by Kavanaugh joining the high court.
“Many of our organizations opposed Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination to the D.C. Circuit, and our fears and concerns have been realized. Judge Kavanaugh has not served as a neutral and fair-minded jurist. He has served as a conservative ideologue who lacks the impartiality and independence necessary to sit on the highest court in the land,” the letter reads.
The groups, which also include NARAL Pro-Choice America, the National Bar Association and the Sierra Club, urge senators to grill Kavanaugh about what he knew about allegations that former 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski sexually harassed his law clerks. The groups note that Kavanaugh formerly clerked for and remained friends with the judge, who resigned over the allegations in December.
The groups also pressed senators on the Judiciary Committee to ensure all requested documents relating to Kavanaugh’s extensive record are produced and examined.
“It has been publicly reported that there could be in excess of a million pages of documents from Judge Kavanaugh’s work in the Bush White House,” they wrote.
“The significant number of documents that exists is likely the reason that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein recently made an unprecedented and inappropriate request for more than 100 federal prosecutors and attorneys to assist in document review.”
88 of which operate have of the same office, which office consists of a fax machine, a printer, and a website in a temp office building.
This kind of story is beyond transparently stupid.
The more the merrier. I’m talking’ bout drama. Trump wins big. Don’t forget the possibility of a showdown over funding for the wall on Sept. 30.
I guessing there is a lot of overlapping memberships in this motley collection of pinko clubs.
So they sent out a text to their “Leftist Friends” list.
Yawn...
lemmings all
100 civil and human rights?
what about the rights of aborted babies you fools?
So a bunch of left-wing special interest groups hiding behind orwellian names oppose a clearly qualified SCPTUS nominee.
most all commie type front groups or Soroznazi funded anti-American incitement outfits...capable of citing not a single substantive piece of evidence that the nominee is racist
if anyone produces any evidence, I will be among the first to change tune.. but so far the nominee looks highly qualified and does NOT deserve this kind of agiprop ad hominem
That proves that these good-name groups are anti America
The usual suspects.
^SCOTUS, obviously
BTW, the “Human Rights” Campaign was out in front of my building today. I should have asked them what they’re doing to advance the human right of gun ownership.
If these folks say their "fears and concerns have been realized" it makes me feel more confident that he's a good pick.
Then the Left will gobble it up.
One of them wouldn’t be the Communist Party USA (Marxist/Leninist) by any chance,would it?
These groups claim to support “rights” yet care not a bit about freedom of speech, religious freedom, free trade, the second amendment, or property rights.
I hope somebody is taking down names. These commies are getting away with too much——for now.
Essentially.
The Left is run by the people the Anticomunists in the 40s to 60s were warning us of.
Could we at least have some sufficiently differentiated talking points? All say pretty much the same thing, which is largely a reprise of whatever it was that Ted Kennedy said about Robert Bork.
A transcript of Kennedy’s words:
“Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is — and is often the only — protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy… President Reagan is still our president. But he should not be able to reach out from the muck of Irangate, reach into the muck of Watergate and impose his reactionary vision of the Constitution on the Supreme Court and the next generation of Americans. No justice would be better than this injustice.”
Ted Kennedy seemed awfully sure of himself.
WOW over a 100 groups that play the victim card at every thing under the sun.
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