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 ...
One of the esteemed professors listed as being on the letter is former Ohio Justice Alice Robbie Resnick. She should know a lot about judicial temperament needed after her arrest for drunk driving when she refused a field sobriety test when confronted in a gas station after reports of her car being driven erratically, then disobeying the officer and driving off, then failing a sobriety test and registering .22 blood alcohol, while trying to argue her way out of the DUI because of her being a Justice on the Ohio Supreme Court. Yes, she knows all about judicial temperament.
Robie. Da*n autocorrect.
so is this “consensus” or a liberal echo-chamber?
Why have laws and a burden of proof in courts?
Can juries convict angry young men just because?
Put then in pacific huts with wood stoves made from 55 gallon drums. A big woodpile outside and a dull axe. They will not spoil our air for long....
I heard it was a bajillion lawyers..
Welp. Here are 650 people who have outted themselves as enemies of the country. Nothing feels better to me than watching them shoot themselves in the foot! Now, when the hot war starts, we know who to go after first. And they say these are our “best and brightest”. Hahahahaha !
Dumba**es!
That seems fairly low, since 90% plus of law professors are libs.
Yet they have no problem with a “wise Latina” on the bench??
In most instances these days the term “professor” equates with diehard leftist. With that in mind anything such jackasses have to say is unAmerican and totally worthless.
To Professors: WE WON.
He has good temperament. I would have put an end to corey booker and dicky bloomenthal’s viciousness once and for all.
So on Friday there will be 650 liberals crying liberal tears.
:)
A background check on the 650 signers would be interesting.
It’s embarrassing to see law professors that do not understand what the term “judicial temperament” means.
College professors. No credibility.
And, anticonstitution judges that want to legislate from the bench.
How many of them are Kenyans?
“Will be interesting to see which schools should be burned to the ground. So to speak.”
The beauty of this is Yale and Harvard has shown their bias. Moving forward, any Republican president who gets a SCOTUS pick should under no circumstances nominate someone from either school.
No. They won't. Winning power is EVERYTHING to them, and is more important than civility or maintaining peaceful relations or following any rules.
To a Leftist, no process which does not advance the Left has any legitimacy. They are like the Terminator:
"Listen, and understand. That terminator is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, EVER, until you are dead."
Trump can take the list and say...”Good, now I and any republican president following after me will have a ready list of individuals never to be nominated for any judicial post! Republican state governors mat also have use of this list!”
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