Brett Kavenaugh Supreme Court Nomination
Regarding Kavanaugh's decorum and professional conduct we have a whole history of him being a judge and there is no indication that he ever acted inappropriately, emotionally or unfairly, in fact quite the opposite.
My opinion is that one impassioned outburst in the face of horrible accusations delivered by a political hatchet job does not a man make. Plus I've noticed the opinion on his angry outburst falls completely along political lines as well. Did I cringe and did it give me serious pause? Yes. Is it being exaggerated now by the left? Totally.
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Brett Kavenaugh Supreme Court Nomination
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Ma'ake
Apparently it was more than hysterical lefties reacting.
DC circuit judges were alarmed enough about Kavanaugh's testimony to send complaints to John Roberts.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...nl_most&wpmm=1
I don't think the Brett Kavanaugh chapter in a future book about American history is over. God help us. We're going to need it.
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“The complaints do not pertain to any conduct in which Judge Kavanaugh engaged as a judge. The complaints seek investigations only of the public statements he has made as a nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States.”
By every single account, his conduct as a judge during his 12 years on the bench has been impeccable. All those who have appeared in front of him say so, all of his clerks say so, and all Circuit Court judges who have deliberated with him and have signed opinions with him say so.
So what do we have? The man was accused, after the hearings were over, of sexual assault 36 years ago when he was 17 years old. The accusation arose under questionable circumstances (Senator Feinstein‘s sitting on it until an opportune time for a Hail Mary attempt to stop the nomination). The accusation was absolutely uncorroborated, and was surrounded by uncertainty and multiple questions and factual gaps.
A similarly uncorroborated and spurious accusation of him having exposed himself then arose, and was reported by the news media as if it were factual.
Then the gang rape accusation came up. Again, this was reported as if it were serious, even though the New York Times refused to report on it because they could not confirm it in any manner. And yet this was reported by the other news media as well, and the accuser (who has since been exposed as a bit of a nut case) got time on a national NBC news broadcast.
Then of course, the Democratic Senators started quizzing him about language in his high school yearbook.
So yes, he was angry and emotional when he appeared before the Senate to defend himself against these horrific and unsubstantiated charges. It is completely understandable that he felt that way and expressed himself that way. Can anyone here tell the rest of us that he or she would’ve been calm and cerebral in such a situation? I will guarantee you, no action will ever be taken against him for his demeanor in front of the Senate on that occasion. The other judges who complained about him to the leaders of their group are, I will bet anything, Democratic appointees who were Democratic activists before they made those complaints. Otherwise, they broke down pretty much the way the general population is breaking down: along partisan lines. Democrats and liberals believe the accusers, believe Cavanaugh is guilty, and are very upset about his demeanor during the hearings. Republicans and conservatives feel the opposite way. There is nothing remarkable about those circuit judges expressing their concerns.
My blood pressure is now returning to normal. 😉
Brett Kavenaugh Supreme Court Nomination
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Originally Posted by
Ma'ake
Apparently it was more than hysterical lefties reacting.
DC circuit judges were alarmed enough about Kavanaugh's testimony to send complaints to John Roberts.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...nl_most&wpmm=1
I don't think the Brett Kavanaugh chapter in a future book about American history is over. God help us. We're going to need it.
According to the article you cited, it wasn't the circuit court judges who were concerned about his conduct who filed the complaints (anybody can file a complaint and it was the public who had done so) rather they were rightfully sent to the Justice Roberts because they didn't feel their court could handle them appropriately it.
They can't appropriately handle them because the conduct didn't happen in their courts but with the Senate as a Supreme Court nominee and now Supreme Court Justice.
Yes, this whole thing is hysterics from both sides.
This is a rare occasion, but I agree with LA Ute on this, his conduct as a judge has been impeccable and the most reliable indicator of his judicial demeanor and ability to serve. Doesn't matter now what we think anyway, it is done.
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Brett Kavenaugh Supreme Court Nomination
It might’ve helped the Democrats out half-day could’ve brought them selves to denounce what Avenatti was doing:
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Attorney Michael Avenatti stymied Democrats’ attempts to derail confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Democratic senators and aides told CNN.
“Democrats and the country would have been better off if Mr. Avenatti spent his time on his Iowa vanity project rather than meddling in Supreme Court fights,” a top Democratic Senate aide told CNN ahead of Saturday’s vote to confirm Kavanaugh.
“His involvement set us back, absolutely,” said the aide, referring to Avenatti’s fledgling 2020 presidential campaign.
Avenatti, who represents porn star Stormy Daniels, entered the Kavanaugh foray as an attorney for Julie Swetnick, a Washington, D.C. woman who claimed that Kavanaugh was present at house parties in the early 1980s were girls were gang raped.
Avenatti pushed Swetnick’s case at his cable TV mainstays, CNN and MSNBC, but ultimately failed to produce the witnesses he claimed would come forward to support his client’s case. . . .
While Kavanaugh appeared on the ropes after Ford’s story emerged, conservatives rallied around him in response to the Swetnick allegations.
Asked about Avenatti’s involvement in the Kavanaugh case, Sen. Gary Peters, a Michigan Democrat, suggested that the attorney distracted from Democrats’ mission to derail Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
“Well you know at some point there were a lot of folks coming forward making all sorts of accusations,” Peters told CNN. “It turns it into a circus atmosphere and certainly that’s not where we should be.”
http://dailycallernewsfoundation.org...nst-kavanaugh/
But nobody came forward and denounced him, so they’re in a poor position to complain about him now.
Brett Kavenaugh Supreme Court Nomination
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Applejack
yeah, I agree with Sancho on this one. First, why shouldn't smaller population states have proportionally less of a say about who their leader should be than populous states? Second, that skewing towards smaller states doesn't strike me as a good, necessarily: some of the policies in this country are skewed towards small population states (think farm subsidies) that are not objectively good for the country as a whole. Third, what sancho said: if you think presidential candidates spend a second thinking about Wyoming or Utah or vermont or alabama or alaska (except for fund raising) you are wrong.
The only thing you get from the electoral system is elimination of most voter's votes.
If I’m remembering correctly from history classes taken long ago, that was the compromise that the Founders reached. Also, you and Sancho are right in noting that the large states already have a high number of electoral votes, and get most of the attention. The electoral college softens that advantage somewhat. And, in close elections, the candidates want the four or five electoral votes Utah has, as well as those of other less populous states. (Of course, in 2016 one leading candidate took for granted even the large states, with serious consequences. There’s a lesson in that.)
As I said in my last post, the ingenuity (some would say cunning) of the Founders was to make it extremely difficult to change this system. So we are probably stuck with it for a long, long time.