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________________________________ The Patriot Post - Alexander's Column 9-5-2018 From The Federalist Patriot Free Email Subscription _______________________________
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) had only spoken a few introductory words before being interrupted loudly by Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), who protested, “We cannot possibly move forward, Mr. Chairman, with this hearing. We have not been given an opportunity to have a meaningful hearing on this nominee.”
Democrats are complaining that they haven’t had enough time to review all of the documents on Kavanaugh’s career24. But it was they who demanded all the records — another stalling tactic. The National Archives released more than twice as many records25 on Kavanaugh as the last five judicial nominees combined. Now Democrats are griping that they haven’t had time to read them all.
And regarding the “opportunity” for review, the average time between nominations and hearings for the last 10 Supreme Court nominees was 41 days. It has been 64 days since President Trump nominated Judge Kavanaugh.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) used his time to audition for the 2020 presidential campaign, insisting that Kavanaugh’s decisions favor “the powerful, the privileged, big corporations, [and] special interests,” and that “over and over again, folks that lose are the folks that are why I came to Washington to fight: working folks, consumers, women, immigrants, minorities, the disadvantaged, the poor.”
That was followed with a cluster of rancorous Demo howls calling for adjournment, led by Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and the usual leftist Senate suspects: Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), and Dick Durbin (D-IL).
So rude, contentious, and disgraceful was the behavior of adolescent Democrats and their anti-Kavanaugh cabal of gallery hecklers (70 of whom were arrested), that Judge Kavanaugh’s wife, Ashley, removed their young daughters Margaret and Liza from the hearing room.
At least Durbin was honest about the pathetic rants: “Why is this happening for the first time in the history of this committee? I think we need to be honest about why it’s happening. … You are the nominee of President Donald John Trump.”
Feigning reason and restraint, Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the ranking Demo on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said, “I really regret this, but I think you have to understand the frustration on this side of the aisle.”
In response, Grassley warned, “We are going to be in session Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, ‘til we get done this week.”
Responding to the Demo-toddler temper tantrums, Ted Cruz (R-TX) told Kavanaugh, “I’m sorry that your daughters had to endure the political circus of this morning. … I believe this fight is nothing more and nothing less than an attempt by our Democratic colleagues to relitigate the 2016 election. … The Democratic obstruction today is all about trying to reverse that election.”
And Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) offered a brief civics lesson26 on why SCOTUS confirmation hearings have become so contentious.
Assuming some degree of civility returns to the Senate, Democrats will likely focus on Kavanaugh’s views on executive privilege, as Demos want to remove Trump from office by any means necessary. “I’ll tell you that will be front and center,” insisted Durbin.
No doubt they’ll also grill Judge Kavanaugh on his opposition to the killing of children before birth and on his position on what’s left of Obama’s so-called “Affordable Care Act27.”
As consummate race-baiters, Democrats will certainly try to vilify the nominee for his color blindness on civil rights. “Kavanaugh is extreme even by the right-wing, far-right ideological standards of this administration,” wailed Blumenthal, the main obstructionist of the first day’s proceedings. “I’m willing to wager there’s a smoking gun here.”
And, of course, they’ll grill him on his opinions in support of the Second Amendment28 to gauge how much of an obstacle he’ll be to their objective of obstructing and repealing29 “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms.”
Leftists have framed the contest for the Supreme Court as “Republican v. Democrat,” but it’s really about judicial authority v. judicial despotism. SCOTUS has moved ever closer to the “despotic branch30” that Thomas Jefferson warned of so long ago, in which the Constitution becomes “a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they please.”
The debate, then, is not about Right v. Left but about Liberty v. tyranny31. John Stossel puts that into context in a short video about the Kavanaugh nomination32.
All the petty rancor aside, by the end of the week, the country should have Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
As I noted prior to the last presidential election, I supported Trump primarily because of his commitment to nominate constitutional constructionists33 to the Supreme Court. I also noted repeatedly34 that the presidential election was “much more than a quadrennial vote — it is a quarter-century vote for the composition of the Supreme Court.”
Clearly, Trump’s 2016 victory was a generational victory35 for Liberty36, much to the Left’s consternation.
Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis Pro Deo et Libertate — 1776
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