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The difference you see in the sameness is remarkable.
Law The Search For The 114th Supreme Court Justice: The Witch-Hunt Against Judge Brett Kavanaugh
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The sameness you force yourself to see in categorical and verifiable difference is not.
I didn’t agree with anything either. The merits of the GOP and this Administration have been highlighted by me more times than I can remember. But I prefer to stay on topic and it’s disgraceful that a legitimate SC pick is being held up. It was disgraceful when the GOP did it but at least they had the Biden precedent. The Dems have none. So they tried to expand it to “mid term year”. Pathetic.
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I sincerely hope Kamala Harris will never be selected for jury duty here in California.
Who the hell would loudly pronounce what their groundless decision will be months ahead of the hearings, and then go find excuses to justify the groundless decision that we all knew have already been made months ago? Aren't career politicians supposed to be more savvy than that?
Despite all the squawking and grasping for straws, I have yet to see anyone provide a single concrete rationale to back up their claim that Kavanaugh is such a horrible and evil judge, something that they have already determined long before they even learned how to spell the name of this supposed Extremist.
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Unless I'm missing something, the "horrible" link above doesn't contain the word "horrible". It appears to be a flashback tweet to Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing in 2006.
Also, did Booker actually call Kavanaugh evil? He was talking about this being a "moral moment" in which "there are no bystanders". Maybe he was talking about the Trump era in general and saying it's our duty to oppose everything Trump does?
Anyway, the guy is unhinged and doesn't stand a chance against Trump. IMO he won't get the Democratic nomination.
And yeah, the Women's March thing was hilarious.
Regarding Harris: good points. The lack of savviness that you write of is one of the main reasons why I think Harris would get killed in a head-to-head with Trump in 2020.
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They are desperately trying to delay the nomination until after the mid-terms That's all this is.
Though I'm curious : wouldn't the confirmation happen regardless?
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Confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to begin September 4
CBS/AP August 10, 2018
The Senate will begin confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on September 4. CBS/AP August 10, 2018
Sen. Chuck Grassley, the Republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said the committee will launch up to four days of review on Tuesday, beginning with opening remarks from senators.
Kavanaugh will face questions followed by testimony from legal experts and people who know the judge.
Republicans are eager to confirm President Donald Trump's nominee ahead of the new court session Oct. 1, as Justice Anthony Kennedy retires. Democrats have complained Republicans are rushing the process for the lifetime appointment without proper vetting of Kavanaugh's record.
In 2016, Senate Republicans refused to hold confirmation hearings for President Barack Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland, believing that the Supreme Court vacancy occurred too close to the election. Democrats now argue that Republicans are now trying to hurry a confirmation process shortly before the 2018 midterm elections.
Republicans have in turn accused Democrats of attempting to block the confirmation process of a qualified candidate. Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn criticized Democrats who oppose Kavanaugh's confirmation in a statement.
"The transparent stall tactics and now thinly-veiled attacks on Judge Kavanaugh's character only underscore the strength of the choice President Trump has made," Cornyn said.
Grassley said Friday there's "plenty of time" to review the documents but added it's time for Americans "to hear directly" from Kavanaugh.
White House spokesperson Raj Shah said that "Chairman Grassley has lived up to his promise to lead an open, transparent and fair process."
"Judge Kavanaugh looks forward to addressing the Judiciary Committee in public hearings for the American people to view," Shah said.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/confir...nominee-brett-kavanaugh-to-begin-september-4/
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IMO this is a political mistake.
The Republicans should wait until a week or less before the November elections to confirm. That would rev up the base.
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Washington (CNN) Donald Trump's second Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, receives a cooler public reception than nearly every nominee for the last four administrations, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. Women are a driving force behind the tepid response, with fewer than three in 10 saying Kavanaugh ought to be confirmed.
Overall, 37% of Americans say they'd like to see the Senate vote in favor of his confirmation. Kavanaugh's support is the lowest in polling dating back to Robert Bork's nomination by President Ronald Reagan in 1987. That's lower support for Kavanaugh than similar public assessments of the unsuccessful nominations of Merrick Garland and Harriet Miers, as well as all successful nominees save David Souter, Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer, for whom equivalent data are not available. Slightly more, 40%, say the Senate should not vote to confirm Kavanaugh, while 22% have no opinion on the matter. And Americans' first impressions of the judge are mixed: 33% have a generally positive take, 27% neutral and 29% generally negative.
Republicans are broadly supportive of Kavanaugh: 74% would like to see him confirmed, while independents split 38% to 38% and Democrats largely oppose his nomination (67% say he should not be confirmed). Republicans and independents were each more supportive of Neil Gorsuch's confirmation in the first weeks of Trump's time in office (84% of Republicans and 47% of independents favored his confirmation).
Women, in particular, are notably opposed to Kavanaugh's nomination, and it's not just partisanship driving the difference. Just 28% of women say the Senate should vote in favor of confirming Kavanaugh, compared with 47% of men. That gender gap extends to Democrats (6% of Democratic women support confirmation vs. 22% of Democratic men), and independents (28% of women vs. 47% of men). There's a far smaller gap between GOP women (71%) and men (77%).
Women are also less likely than men to say Kavanaugh's views are mainstream. Just 35% of women consider them to be mainstream vs. 50% of men. Here, there is a meaningful gender gap between Republican women (60% mainstream) and GOP men (77%), as well as between independent women (39% mainstream) and independent men (53%), while the gender gap among Democrats is negligible (23% of Democratic men and 19% of Democratic women consider his views mainstream). Overall, 42% of Americans say Kavanaugh's views are in the mainstream and 35% say they are too extreme.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/16/politics/cnn-poll-kavanaugh-confirmation/index.html
CNN Poll: Brett Kavanaugh nomination has lowest public support since Robert Bork
By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director | Thu August 16, 2018
By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director | Thu August 16, 2018
Washington (CNN) Donald Trump's second Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, receives a cooler public reception than nearly every nominee for the last four administrations, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. Women are a driving force behind the tepid response, with fewer than three in 10 saying Kavanaugh ought to be confirmed.
Overall, 37% of Americans say they'd like to see the Senate vote in favor of his confirmation. Kavanaugh's support is the lowest in polling dating back to Robert Bork's nomination by President Ronald Reagan in 1987. That's lower support for Kavanaugh than similar public assessments of the unsuccessful nominations of Merrick Garland and Harriet Miers, as well as all successful nominees save David Souter, Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer, for whom equivalent data are not available. Slightly more, 40%, say the Senate should not vote to confirm Kavanaugh, while 22% have no opinion on the matter. And Americans' first impressions of the judge are mixed: 33% have a generally positive take, 27% neutral and 29% generally negative.
Republicans are broadly supportive of Kavanaugh: 74% would like to see him confirmed, while independents split 38% to 38% and Democrats largely oppose his nomination (67% say he should not be confirmed). Republicans and independents were each more supportive of Neil Gorsuch's confirmation in the first weeks of Trump's time in office (84% of Republicans and 47% of independents favored his confirmation).
Women, in particular, are notably opposed to Kavanaugh's nomination, and it's not just partisanship driving the difference. Just 28% of women say the Senate should vote in favor of confirming Kavanaugh, compared with 47% of men. That gender gap extends to Democrats (6% of Democratic women support confirmation vs. 22% of Democratic men), and independents (28% of women vs. 47% of men). There's a far smaller gap between GOP women (71%) and men (77%).
Women are also less likely than men to say Kavanaugh's views are mainstream. Just 35% of women consider them to be mainstream vs. 50% of men. Here, there is a meaningful gender gap between Republican women (60% mainstream) and GOP men (77%), as well as between independent women (39% mainstream) and independent men (53%), while the gender gap among Democrats is negligible (23% of Democratic men and 19% of Democratic women consider his views mainstream). Overall, 42% of Americans say Kavanaugh's views are in the mainstream and 35% say they are too extreme.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/16/politics/cnn-poll-kavanaugh-confirmation/index.html
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Roe Is ‘Settled Law,’ Kavanaugh Tells Collins. Democrats Aren’t Moved.
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg | Aug. 21, 2018
In addition to abortion, Senator Susan Collins of Maine and Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh discussed gun rights during their more than two-hour meeting on Tuesday
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg | Aug. 21, 2018
In addition to abortion, Senator Susan Collins of Maine and Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh discussed gun rights during their more than two-hour meeting on Tuesday
WASHINGTON — Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s views on abortion took center stage in the Senate on Tuesday after he assured a key Republican senator that he believed the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision was “settled law” — a comment that Democrats and abortion rights advocates derided as a meaningless dodge.
Emerging from a more than two-hour “courtesy visit” with Judge Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Senator Susan Collins of Maine said they had discussed abortion cases “at length,” and that he told her he agreed with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who told senators during his 2005 confirmation hearings that he regarded Roe as “settled law.” Ms. Collins later said she was heartened by the statement.
Ms. Collins and Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska are two Republican backers of abortion rights, and both say they are undecided on Judge Kavanaugh. Their votes are critical to his confirmation. The term “settled law” refers to a precedent that is entitled to respect, and does not necessarily indicate that precedent cannot be limited or overturned.
Ms. Collins’s statement on the matter may say less about Judge Kavanaugh’s views on abortion than her ultimate vote, which appears to be leaning toward “yes.” She had already called him a “clearly” qualified nominee. The judge’s confirmation hearings are set to begin on Sept. 4, with a confirmation vote possible before the end of next month.
Democrats immediately pounced on the “settled law” construction, saying it is a standard phrase employed to duck the real question: whether Roe was correctly decided.
“Let’s be clear; this is not as simple as Judge Kavanaugh saying that Roe is settled law,” Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, told reporters. “Everything the Supreme Court decides is settled law until it unsettles it. Saying a case is settled law is not the same thing as saying a case was correctly decided.”
Beyond abortion, Ms. Collins said she and Judge Kavanaugh spoke about executive powers, his judicial philosophy and which judges he admires most. They also discussed gun rights, including the so-called Heller case, a highly publicized 2011 case involving a challenge to a District of Columbia law that required gun owners to register their weapons and banned possession of semiautomatic rifles. (The case was a follow-on to an earlier one, District of Columbia v. Heller, that resulted in a landmark Supreme Court ruling in 2008 that the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms applied to individuals, not simply to those in a “well-regulated militia.”)
While the appeals court upheld those limits, Judge Kavanaugh dissented, arguing that while the government may ban fully automatic machine guns, a ban on semiautomatic rifles should be unconstitutional, because they “have not traditionally been banned and are in common use by law-abiding citizens for self-defense in the home, hunting and other lawful uses.”
Calling the session “very productive” and “very informative,” Ms. Collins said she intended to wait until after Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings to decide whether to support him. “You never know what questions are going to come up at a Judiciary Committee hearing where 21 individuals will be questioning him,” she said.
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Roe Is ‘Settled Law,’ Kavanaugh Tells Collins. Democrats Aren’t Moved.
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg | Aug. 21, 2018
In addition to abortion, Senator Susan Collins of Maine and Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh discussed gun rights during their more than two-hour meeting on Tuesday
WASHINGTON — Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s views on abortion took center stage in the Senate on Tuesday after he assured a key Republican senator that he believed the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision was “settled law” — a comment that Democrats and abortion rights advocates derided as a meaningless dodge.
Emerging from a more than two-hour “courtesy visit” with Judge Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Senator Susan Collins of Maine said they had discussed abortion cases “at length,” and that he told her he agreed with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who told senators during his 2005 confirmation hearings that he regarded Roe as “settled law.” Ms. Collins later said she was heartened by the statement.
Ms. Collins and Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska are two Republican backers of abortion rights, and both say they are undecided on Judge Kavanaugh. Their votes are critical to his confirmation. The term “settled law” refers to a precedent that is entitled to respect, and does not necessarily indicate that precedent cannot be limited or overturned.
Ms. Collins’s statement on the matter may say less about Judge Kavanaugh’s views on abortion than her ultimate vote, which appears to be leaning toward “yes.” She had already called him a “clearly” qualified nominee. The judge’s confirmation hearings are set to begin on Sept. 4, with a confirmation vote possible before the end of next month.
Democrats immediately pounced on the “settled law” construction, saying it is a standard phrase employed to duck the real question: whether Roe was correctly decided.
“Let’s be clear; this is not as simple as Judge Kavanaugh saying that Roe is settled law,” Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, told reporters. “Everything the Supreme Court decides is settled law until it unsettles it. Saying a case is settled law is not the same thing as saying a case was correctly decided.”
Schumer is correct here. Either Collins is preposterously naive, or she's trying to be politically savvy.
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Let's just be honest about all these theatrics and acknowledge that at the end, Collins (and a handful other "Centrist Republicans) would vote for Kavanaugh, and Schumer and nearly all the Dems will oppose Kavanaugh, no matter what.
The votes will be splits right down the isle, minus a few vulnerable Dems from Red states who can't afford to lose their seats.
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Of course. That's why Kamala Harris's grandstanding is so laughable.
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Supporters of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh are ramping up their efforts to get him confirmed ahead of his nomination hearing next week.
Advocates are sending a flurry of letters to the Judiciary Committee pressing senators to support Kavanaugh, who will appear before the panel starting on Tuesday.
Twenty one of Kavanaugh's former White House counsel colleagues sent a letter to Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the top two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying that while they don't agree with "every substantive view" of Kavanaugh's they all "agree that Judge Kavanaugh is superbly qualified."
"He was known among his peers for his wise counsel and advocacy regarding the Presidency’s institutional interests -- both enduring interests and those specific to the President we served – within its Constitutional bounds," they wrote.
Kavanaugh's time in former President George W. Bush's White House has come under a microscope in the lead up to his confirmation hearing.
A legal team for Bush has turned over hundreds of thousands of pages from Kavanaugh's time as a White House lawyer to the committee.
But Democrats want to see documents from the three year period that Kavanaugh served as a staff secretary for Bush. Republicans have refused to request the documents and Democrats are powerless to force them to be turned over on their own.
The nearly two dozen colleagues note that they saw how Kavanaugh handled his roles as a staff secretary and lawyer.
"He was extraordinarily skilled, diligent, and honorable, with a respectful temperament. He demonstrated balance, fairness, careful listening, personal decency and humility, and a gift for unpretentious personal interaction," they wrote.
In addition to Kavanaugh's former colleagues, dozens of female staffers from the Bush administration sent a separate letter touting Kavanaugh as a "public servant and as a person."
"As former colleagues of Brett’s, we know his commitment to equal treatment of women in the workplace and are especially proud of his efforts to encourage and support women lawyers," they wrote.
The letter from Kavanaugh's female former colleagues comes as progressives have seized on concerns that he will help curb or nix the Affordable Care Act and scale back or overturn Roe v. Wade.
In a third letter, Penny Nance, the CEO and President of Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee, told Grassley and Feinstein that it "is time to put aside political maneuverings and consider this nominee on his own merits."
Nance, in her letter, also highlighted Kavanaugh's hiring of female clerks.
"As you are aware, Judge Kavanaugh employed the first all-female class of law clerks in the history of the D.C. Circuit Court, and more than half of his law clerks have been women. There is no question that his incredible efforts to advance women in the legal field will yield incredible fruit for generations to come," she said.
http://thehill.com/regulation/court...es-ramp-up-efforts-ahead-of-kavanaugh-hearing
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Business and labor are two areas of the law that have been front and center at the Supreme Court in recent years. What does nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s record suggest about how he might rule on cases at the high court? Judy Woodruff gets analysis from Karen Harned of the National Federation of Independent Business Small Business Legal Center, and Daniel Goldberg of Alliance for Justice.
