Posted on 07/12/2018 6:23:44 PM PDT by TBP
When Donald Trump started running for the Republican nomination for president in June 2015, he began by attacking the Republican establishment in Washington, and he began his attack by calling the establishment “the swamp.”
His real target was the permanent government and its enablers in the legal, financial, diplomatic and intelligence communities in Washington. These entities hover around power centers no matter which party is in power.
Beneath the swamp, Mr. Trump argued, lies the deep state. This is a loose collection of career government officials who operate outside ordinary legal and constitutional frameworks and use the levers of government power to favor their own, affect public policy and stay in power. Though I did not vote for Mr. Trump — I voted for the Libertarian candidate — a part of me rejoiced at his election because I accepted his often repeated words that he would be a stumbling block to the deep state and he’d drain the swamp.
On Monday night, he rewarded the swamp denizens and deep state outliers by nominating one of their own to the Supreme Court.
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From reading it. It’s written in plain English as the founders intended. Learn history.
I know history
Brett writes clearly and anyone can understand it. Have you read his actual decisions? I doubt it.
I read his decision on the meta data collection. He clearly stated that as long as the NSA collects it from a third party source, it’s perfectly ok to spy on Americans without a warrant.
His squirmy out was that it wasn’t “unreasonable”. Maybe not unreasonable, totally unreasonable, and totally illegal.
I’m absolutely positive I understand the Constitution better than at least four judges on the Supreme Court. What’s your point?
Nappy went off the deep end many months ago.
No just this is just the usual hysteric whining of a person who sexual orientation trumps any reason, fact or intellectual honesty.
Judge Nap has been a fevered defender of the Muller Clown show, and the DOJ, which shows his posturing about “the swamp” here is just infantile hypocrisy.
No however, your overinflated sense of your own intellectual infallibility is pretty clearly on display
Nice you have feelings on the issue, too bad your feelings are not facts.
Rather then cling to intellectually infantile emotional hysterics, try actually looking into Kavanaugh’s background and rulings..
You are currently are displaying a total ignorance on this topic that is simply inexcusable.
It wasn’t his decision it was a concurrence on a request for an en bank hearing
2. The legal issue in Klayman v. Obama was whether plaintiffs were entitled to an injunction against the NSA’s bulk collection of telephony metadata. Hawkins quotes passages from what he calls Kavanaugh’s “concurring opinion.” Kavanaugh’s opinion is not, as the reader might think, a concurrence in the panel ruling against plaintiffs, but rather a concurrence in the D.C. Circuit’s unanimous denial of rehearing en banc in the case. (Kavanaugh was not on the panel; among those who were, and who denied plaintiffs relief, was noted libertarian Judge Janice Rogers Brown.)
Nowhere was I emotional. You’re the one using ad hominem attacks like “infantile”.
I’ve heard and read plenty about his background. He’s not going to move the needle at all.
He’s a Bushie, beltway insider and has had some questionable opinions. That’s all. I’m done with you. Boring. Go play high school debate on Reddit.
I used to enjoy Judge Napolitano when he gave continuing legal education lectures as a New Jersey Appellate Court judge. As a talking head, he was able to come out of the political closet and fully expose his personal beliefs. Although he sounded conservative on some issues, I noticed a hard edged aspect when it came to civil liberties beyond the classical Liberal view (as opposed to today’s progs). It all made sense when I learned he was gay. As such, he is naturally inclined (some may say unnaturally) toward an extreme libertarian point of view. Consequently, I don’t trust his judgment about a variety of issues, including judicial nominations because it will always be shaded by his personal rejection of traditional morality and personal responsibility.
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