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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Too bad she signed that letter. Probably some of these professors felt pressured to go along with the crowd. Hopefully your niece understands what Kavanaugh is being put through.
With that many commie bastards warping the minds of young lawyers-to-be, we are in big trouble!
They wouldn't get to the USSC anyway. Remember, Them that can, do; them that can't, teaches.
Small edit.
“College Professors” Nuff said to ignore them completely.
I’ve found THREE others from Lewis & Clark so far....and I’m only through the G’s...
Warped sense of values.
Good luck. Hopefully you won’t find the entire law school signed on.
Contrite and wimpyful BK is whom they like, not BK engaging his backbone and speaking boldly back to Dims, who don’t expect to be talked back to. Bravo for BK and shame on 650 law school teachers.
Has anyone told them that he was not sitting as a Judge. He was sitting as the accused.
Law professors- self explanitory
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