Law The Search For The 114th Supreme Court Justice: The Witch-Hunt Against Judge Brett Kavanaugh

[glenwo2]

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The response is appropriate :

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

I personally feel 80 should be the cutoff



That's an Obama quote. Not my logic.

So he should’ve gotten his pick.

You’re not making much sense today. I suggest a nap and some warm milk and a cookie

 

[glenwo2]

All of a sudden, the entire Democratic side has turned into Conspiracy Theory experts. <Lmaoo><Lmaoo><Lmaoo><Lmaoo>

 

[Fawlty]

His answers related to precedent/stare decisis sound good.

 

[glenwo2]

A mature on topic response as usual.

If the response is simply stating the truth, it doesn't really matter whether it's mature or immature.

 

[glenwo2]

Textualism/Originalism is just a rhetorical tool used to disparage progressive justices. Every Supreme Court justice is merely interpreting the constitution. None of them wrote it, or had a hand in writing it. So, by definition, they're just giving their interpretation of what the text means.

So, you can shove that boring trope up your ass.

As to documents, yes there are documents that could make me support him. Clear evidence that he believes in limits on executive power, clear evidence that he believes in a woman right to choose. Clear evidence that he would side with labor in collective bargaining cases, etc.

But the reason they're hiding all those documents, is because it will confirm the worst of the criticism of him. He will be a rightwing toady on the court.

Excuse me but your opinion on whether you support him or not, doesn't matter nor will it ever matter. Same with myself.

The fact of the matter is that he's getting confirmed without the American People voting just like all SCOTUS candidates in the past(which includes your precious LEFT). This isn't a new thing.

And the Dems just made the Chairman's job a lot easier by announcing ahead of time that they were voting "NO" so the only thing preventing the vote that makes it official, is they have to go through the actual confirmation process(even though it's basically now a waste of time) first.

Tick Tock.

 

[Mark Hunts FIST]

So he should’ve gotten his pick.

You’re not making much sense today. I suggest a nap and some warm milk and a cookie

Sounds good.

My point was.....
why didn't Democrats put Garland up for a nomination?
They couldn't.
Why?
They didn't have enough votes.
Why not?
They lost elections.

So therefore elections have consequences.

 

[Deleted member 484047]

New drinking game: Every time Cruz nods, take a drink. Changes hand positions, two drinks. Drinks his Diet Dr. Pepper, slam your drink.

Nobody short of a hardened alcoholic would last through 10 minutes of his questioning.

 

[faustian]

Textualism/Originalism is just a rhetorical tool used to disparage progressive justices. Every Supreme Court justice is merely interpreting the constitution. None of them wrote it, or had a hand in writing it. So, by definition, they're just giving their interpretation of what the text means.

So, you can shove that boring trope up your ass.

As to documents, yes there are documents that could make me support him. Clear evidence that he believes in limits on executive power, clear evidence that he believes in a woman right to choose. Clear evidence that he would side with labor in collective bargaining cases, etc.

But the reason they're hiding all those documents, is because it will confirm the worst of the criticism of him. He will be a rightwing toady on the court.

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

Sounds good.

My point was.....
why didn't Democrats put Garland up for a nomination?
They couldn't.
Why?
They didn't have enough votes.
Why not?
They lost elections.

So therefore elections have consequences.

But by your logic they should've gotten him in when Obama was president because elections have consequences.

 

[Mark Hunts FIST]

But by your logic they should've gotten him in when Obama was president because elections have consequences.

No. There's more elections than just President.

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

No. There's more elections than just President.

The judicial heist performed by Mitch Is just a standard play by republicans. They don't believe in rules, law or the constitution

 

[Arkain2K]

*sigh* Looks like 4chan trolls scored yet another easy victory over the deranged #Resistance.

We are now witnessing the rise of the Jewish-Mexican White Supremacist from Mexico.

That was no white-power hand signal at the Kavanaugh hearing, Zina Bash’s husband says
By Eli Rosenberg, Abby Ohlheiser | September 5, 2018

Republican operative Zina Bash rested her hand on her arm, fingers closed into a circle, as she sat behind Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing on Tuesday. And #Resistance Twitter, watching the hearings live and seeing her hand, saw a secret, nefarious code.

Bash was making the “okay” sign with her hand, it appeared. Several left-leaning Twitter users with large followings believed that Bash was promoting a symbol that means “white power.” Eugene Gu, a doctor with more than 200,000 Twitter followers who has become a well-known #Resistance Twitter figure, tweeted that Bash was “flashing a white power sign behind him during his Senate confirmation hearing. They literally want to bring white supremacy to the Supreme Court. What a national outrage and a disgrace to the rule of law.”



His tweet has more than 13,000 retweets. The video from another user that is embedded in Gu’s tweet, focusing in on Bash’s hand, is approaching 4 million views.



Liberal activist and author Amy Siskind, in a now deleted tweet, wrote that Bash’s hand symbol should “disqualify” Kavanaugh from the Supreme Court.

By the evening, Bash’s name was trending on the service. Siskind continued to sow doubt about Bash’s intent into the evening on Twitter.

“Try it for yourself,” Siskind wrote of the hand gesture. “If you watch the video you’ll see she held it in place for a long time. It’s not a natural resting position.”

As the theory went viral, devoid of any proof that it was actually true, Bash’s husband John Bash, the United States attorney for Western Texas, called the accusations geared toward his wife, a lawyer who has spent years working in Republican politics, “repulsive” in heated tweets.

“Everyone tweeting this vicious conspiracy theory should be ashamed of themselves,” John Bash wrote. “We weren’t even familiar with the hateful symbol being attributed to her for the random way she rested her hand during a long hearing.”

Zina Bash, who worked in the Trump White House as a special assistant on regulatory reform and legal and immigration policy, currently works as a senior counsel for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R).

“Zina is Mexican on her mother’s side and Jewish on her father’s side. She was born in Mexico,” Bash wrote. “Her grandparents were Holocaust survivors. We of course have nothing to do with hate groups, which aim to terrorize and demean other people — never have and never would.”



It was the second sideshow to steal attention from the serious and substantive work of Kavanaugh’s hearing after trending on social media. Earlier, videos and images of Kavanaugh declining to shake the hand of Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter was killed at the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., went viral, and Guttenberg later made the rounds on cable news shows.

Soon, conservative personalities had jumped on #Resistance Twitter’s embrace of the okay hand sign theory, calling the whole controversy the left’s Pizzagate. The gleeful response on the right hints at the okay hand sign’s complicated origins as a viral hate symbol.

The idea that the hand sign is a secret symbol for white power owes its mainstream spread to a viral troll campaign aimed at making liberals and the media look gullible. In February 2017, 4chan’s /pol/ board discussed ongoing tactics to try to get the idea to go viral. “To any who haven’t seen the original thread, our goal is to convince people on twitter that the ‘ok’ hand sign has been co-opted by neo-nazis,” the original poster of the thread wrote.

As BuzzFeed has previously reported, /pol/ was gleeful when the okay hand sign started to get mainstream traction. As the campaign spread, however, the symbol was simultaneously adopted by the alt-right — an umbrella term for those on the far right who embrace white nationalist views — and the pro-Trump Internet, both of whom seem to use the gesture to “trigger” liberals who believed the hand sign was a decoder ring to detect secret Nazis.

The gesture is not considered a real hate symbol by organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League. But like Pepe the Frog, its repeated association with and use by white nationalists like Richard Spencer has imbued it with a new meaning in addition to all of its other innocuous ones, making the symbol simultaneously a prank, a harmless gesture of approval and an in-joke among a wide range of right-wing personalities to anger liberals for their own amusement.

There is no credible evidence to suggest that Bash was aware of the hand sign’s associations with the alt-right, or the troll campaign that made it popular.



Mark Pitcavage, a researcher who studies extremism, shared the feelings of many when he dismissed the controversy in a statement on Twitter.

“Out of all the things you should be legitimately concerned about regarding the Senate confirmation hearings in Washington, DC, today for Judge Kavanaugh,” he wrote, “handshakes and handsigns ought not be among them. Actual serious constitutional issues are at stake.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amph...he-kavanaugh-hearing-zina-bashs-husband-says/

 

[Mark Hunts FIST]

The judicial heist performed by Mitch Is just a standard play by republicans. They don't believe in rules, law or the constitution

Mitch McConnell tried to warn Harry Reid about the nuclear option change.

“You’ll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think."

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

Mitch McConnell tried to warn Harry Reid about the nuclear option change.

“You’ll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think."

Those are two different situations all together. No?

Every president gets to choose a SC Justice when the time calls for it. Mitch used the lie of not allowing during an election season.

You’re not even arguing this topic well At all

 

[Arkain2K]

You’re not even arguing this topic well At all

You're in the wrong topic.

This discussion is for Judge Kavanaugh, as described by both the title and the OP.

Feel free to make another thread if you guys wish to argue on things that have nothing to do with what's happening in Kavanaugh's on-going Senate Confirmation Hearings. Better yet, go ask one of the Mods to reopen the thread on Judge Merrick Garland and continue discussing about him there instead of derailing this one.

 

[Arkain2K]

 

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