It’s mostly the “Kennedy as swing/left vote” issue, and the threat he poses to feminists on the abortion issue. Then there is the ascendency of the metoo! movement. But don’t forget that Kavenaugh worked for Ken Starr on the Whitewater and Bill Clinton sex/perjury/graft/Vince Foster investigations. The Clinton cult never stops punishing their foes.
Not only does Kavanaugh become a new conservative Justice, the Rats and their affiliated leftist media saw this as an opportunity to whip up voter frenzy for the midterms. Media makes lots of money spinning these types of smear campaigns.
This whole fight is because the Left is terrified about a return to the model designed by the Founders, which is three co-equal branches of government, each with specific powers/responsibilities/limitations.
Laws are supposed to be created/proposed in the Legislative branch, which is responsible to the voters who put them into office but in the last 50+ years, Congress has sold themselves to the highest bidder through lobbyists (whose numbers exploded in the 1970s)and they no longer actually write or pass laws - certainly not the way the Constitution designed.
What this has meant is that most of our “legislation” now comes through Executive Orders, which everyone loves when “their” side is in the White House and hates when the “other” side does it...again, NOT how the Founders designed it!
Or, some city, state, bureaucracy enacts a law/rule at the local level and the voters squawk and then someone sues and it works its way up the legal chain until it arrives at the Supreme Court, who suddenly finds themselves in the middle of a fight that should never have reached them in the first place and they pronounce a Yay or Nay for the whole country.
There is a method for Amending the Constitution but it doesn’t get used very often because it involves actually convincing a majority of the voters to go along with your idea...the Left does NOT like that plan so they have increasing turned to the Courts to force through Legislation they cannot get at the ballot box!
And that is really what this whole fight is about!
Look to Kavanaugh’s testimony. He pointed directly at the Clintons as being the perpetrators of the smear campaign against him. If you know Kavanaugh’s job history, you know that he was front and center in Ken Star’s independent counsel investigation of Bill Clinton. IMHO this fact is precisely why the dems tried to destroy him. Pretty ugly stuff.
If this is what the Rats do when Kavanaugh replaces Kennedy, I wonder what would happen if Trump gets to fill Ginsburg’s slot.
Leftists have a stupid idea that they control the courts and who gets on them. Even when they are not in power.
They scream about power-sharing and having a court that can opt to go leftist is what they are screaming about.
However, they lost. And conservatives have an opportunity here to pack the courts and remake 60 years of horrible law.
Kennedy voted conservative 70% of the time. A somewhat conservative swing vote gone.
The real battle will be replacing rbg. I think Amy will be up to it though.
The difference is that Gorsuch only replaced a conservative, not a flip-flop voter like Kennedy. Kavanaugh is an originalist and will vote the way the Constitution was intended, and the democrats cannot have that.
The only reason is Gorsuch didn’t throw the balance of the court..
If Kavanaugh had been put up instead of Gorsuch, and now it was Gorsuch instead of Kavanaugh being confirmed, it would be the exact same fiasco....
This has NOTHING to do with Kavanaugh as a person.. it has to do with the balance of the court.
Understand, the left has advanced its insane agenda largely through the courts, not the ballot box... Once the Supreme Court returns to a majority of constitutionalist and constructionalists, not only does their agenda stop... it starts to be peeled back....
Gorsuch replaced Scalia.
Kavanaugh is replacing the squishy centrist Kennedy.
Kennedy used to be the “swing vote”. If Kavanaugh is confirmed, Roberts will become the “swing vote. Roberts, although compromised, is much more of a constitutionalist than Kennedy ever dreamed of being.
The Court:
Gorsuch
Thomas
Alito
Kavanaugh
Roberts
Ginsburg
Kagan
Sotomayor
Breyer
This is PAYBACK for Kavanaugh working for Ken Starr on the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Also a 5-4 conservative court.
If Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg croaks in the next year or so, it will be an outright scream fest beyond what we have seen because the court will be 6-3 conservative.
Didn’t see it in the thread: Kavanaugh was publicized in 2012 by CNN as a Romney USSC pick and Dems had the smears ready. If Clement had been the nominee, something like this would have exploded because CNN named him back then too.
Wait ‘til you see what the next nomination looks like if you think this was bizarre......
Gorsuch just replaced Scalia. No loss for Dems. Brett is worse. But he is not the true “swing vote.” Kavs is too moderate. AMY BARRETT will cause violence by the left, because it would mark the end of Roe v. Wade.
Because they thought they were going to win in November so they wanted delay
They are certain he will vote to overturn Roe v Wade.