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Kavanaugh: The Perfect Choice for the Season of Resistance
American Spectator ^ | July 11, 2018 | Dov Fischer

Posted on 07/12/2018 7:05:58 AM PDT by Twotone

I would like for President Trump to name Judge Antonin Scalia to the United States Supreme Court. Alas, we get only one Justice Scalia in the course of a nation’s history. So we accept reality, and we move on. (Just not dot-org.)

It is by now a meme: Democrats always get the exact liberal-for-life Supreme Court justice they want their Presidents to appoint. And Republicans get snookered into aiming for fifty percent, toggling like a wall-light switch between and among (i) great conservative justices of historical dimensions like Justices Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, and Alito; (ii) serviceable conservative justices like Chief Justices Burger and Roberts; (iii) not-sure-what-kind-of-conservatives-they-are jurists like Justices O’Connor, Kennedy, and Powell; and (iv) liberals like David Souter and auto-immune-disease conservatives like John Paul Stevens and Harry Blackmun, whose internally confused ideologies promoted intellectual antibodies that somehow fight their internal conservatism leaving them broken down with liberal results. Thus, Republicans usually settle for mediocrity in ideological conservatism or get sucker-punched with a liberal-for-life David Souter. Color us: Cheated.

Go back half a century. Nixon quickly threw in the towel after the Titanic-quality disasters of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell. Underscoring the Carswell debacle, United States Senator Roman Hruska fearlessly and passionately defended Carswell who had been derided as a judicial mediocrity: “Even if he is mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they, and a little chance?” It took one to know one, it would seem. In the end, Nixon’s the One who gave us two solid conservatives of significant mettle, Warren Burger and William Rehnquist, and two others, Harry Blackmun and Lewis Powell.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: kavanaugh; supremecourt
Apparently there were some extra reasons for the selection of Kavanaugh. A very interesting article...
1 posted on 07/12/2018 7:05:58 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

The Democrats want ideologues. That’s all they will consider. They get who they want.

Conservatives want constitutionalists... we don’t demand ideological purity... we don’t want it. We simply want someone to read what is in front of them and rule according to the law. Unfortunately, that means that judges who don’t seem ideological can become so later... and screw us over. Our way is a bit of a crap shoot that should be followed by impeachment when judges turn into ideologues... but we don’t.


2 posted on 07/12/2018 7:12:00 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: Twotone

Kavanaugh was caught on camera here - within hours of being chosen ...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dh3Y3V2XkAc6aZu.jpg


3 posted on 07/12/2018 7:12:45 AM PDT by GOPJ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-s1_nfs7f4 STOP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-IsingvI_I)
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To: Twotone

Kavanaugh was caught on camera here - within hours of being chosen ...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dh3Y3V2XkAc6aZu.jpg

(He’s feeding the homeless)


4 posted on 07/12/2018 7:13:38 AM PDT by GOPJ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-s1_nfs7f4 STOP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-IsingvI_I)
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To: GOPJ

“Judge Kavanaugh...really seems an Altar Boy to this day — feeding the homeless, tutoring kids in the inner cities, Daddy to two sweet little girls. He coaches kids’ basketball. He brings his kids to watch women’s basketball. As the meme goes: He is “straight out of central casting.” Yale undergrad, Yale Law School, professor at Harvard Law School, hired for Harvard’s faculty by Elena Kagan. How genius of President Trump and his advisers is that? He clerked for two federal appellate court judges and then for Supreme Court Justice Kennedy. Was Associate Independent Counsel with Ken Starr’s investigation and authored part of the Starr Report. Did a few years’ private law practice as a partner at Kirkland and Ellis, one of the nation’s top fifty law firms, so he knows what real law practice entails outside the classroom and judge’s chambers. He sits on the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals, often described as the nation’s most important appellate circuit, the step closest to the United States Supreme Court.”

Yes, he really DOES seem like a very good man.


5 posted on 07/12/2018 8:34:10 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone
Yes, he really DOES seem like a very good man.

You're right - there are some hints ...

:)

6 posted on 07/12/2018 8:52:34 AM PDT by GOPJ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-s1_nfs7f4 STOP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-IsingvI_I)
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To: Twotone

John Roberts as a “serviceable” Chief Justice; well, he certainly serviced us with the obamacare call.


7 posted on 07/12/2018 9:46:52 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: DPMD

Definitely.

But while it was a big one, there are relatively few other complaints I’ve seen posted here.


8 posted on 07/12/2018 10:58:44 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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