archie bunker Loc: Texas

Agreed. Same here.

debeda

Did you see the moveon.org agitators "protesting"? Dipsh=#ts. T*****rs. Scumbags. Wastes of space. NO thought just howling and senator Cory Booker out there telling them to resist resist resist. A-holes!!!

debeda

debeda

From what i read he has a heck of a resume. He also served as justice Kennedy's law clerk for a time

archie bunker Loc: Texas

No, I just happened to be walking through the living room when they broke in to local programming with the announcement. I don't watch much TV.

Sicilianthing

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you can’t prove it otherwise but I have all his data from the same institutions of all those like him...

Trump keeps hiring from the Swamp or they force these guys on him idk and neither do you.

At this point you should really start to concern yourselves with what could Trump possibly say to the Queen and Rothschilds this weekend while sipping tea ?

Who’s Tea ?

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Where else can you find creatures who can survive the swamp? Like every other ecosystem, there are good, and bad creatures. I don't know about this guy yet. Never heard of him.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

Please STFU, and join the psycho l*****ts!!!

Sicilianthing

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Noted and valid points...
he’s from the BushWhackers era... he worked in the White House on 9/11, met his wife there too...

cut from the same cloth as all the rest who intern, feed, sloth, party, cohabitate and comingle with all the other swamp rats... they all think alike..

YOu cant break that mentality and you can’t make change with the same ole Chefs...

I’m not a buyer on this guy, sorry.

Trump should have hired an outsider Flat OUT !

Sicilianthing

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We’ve had this discussion before, I”m not left and eventhough I lean hard hard right, I’m really more independent and Strict Constitutionalist which this guy isn’t.

More later.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

No you don't have all the "data", what you have is all the sewage you can dredge up from conspiracy theory sites.

Queen Elizabeth is merely an icon of the British monarchy, she does not run the British government. The only thing that seems to be a concern is if President Trump and the First Lady will follow the proper etiquette when introduced to the queen, just as so many presidents before him have done. Her Majesty has met every U.S. president since 1952, with only one exception and that’s Lyndon B. Johnson.

I doubt very much that President Trump and Queen Elizabeth will be discussing anything more than improving the relationship between our two countries. Neither of these two are into sinister bulls**t drummed up by whackos raging in the cellars of conspiracy sites. I imagine the tea and crumpets will be quite good.

Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

The l*****t a******n advocates are gearing up for a fight..Kavanaugh was the judge who wanted to delay the a******n by a 17 year old immigrant a short while back.

Sicilianthing

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See this New Topic Here:

Trinity of G*******t Control
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Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Beat ya to it.

Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Impeccable Record of Constitutional Conservatism

The stakes in filling the Supreme Court vacancy are high. This is no time for a gamble.

Social conservatives understand the stakes in filling the Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement. President Trump, who has excelled in his judicial nominations to date, has the opportunity to t***sform the Court for a generation to come. This is no time for a gamble. As social conservatives know from bitter experience, a judicial record is the best — really, the only — accurate predictor of a prospective justice’s philosophy on the issues that matter most to us. On the vital issues of protecting religious liberty and enforcing restrictions on a******n, no court-of-appeals judge in the nation has a stronger, more consistent record than Judge Brett Kavanaugh. On these issues, as on so many others, he has fought for his principles and stood firm against pressure. He would do the same on the Supreme Court.

Start with a case argued before the D.C. Circuit this March, a case still under submission. The Washington Metropolitan Area T***sit Authority (i.e., the Metro) bans “issue-oriented advertising,” which it interprets to include religious ads. So when the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington wanted to run an ad with the words “Find the Perfect Gift” and an image of shepherds following a star in the sky during the Christmas season, Metro vetoed the ad. The archdiocese sued Metro for violating the First Amendment speech and religion clauses, as well as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The district court ruled for Metro, and the archdiocese appealed to the D.C. Circuit, where the oral argument pitted Paul Clement (representing the archdiocese), a solicitor general in the George W. Bush administration, against Donald Verrilli (representing the Metro), a solicitor general under Obama. Kavanaugh hammered Verrilli with what the Washington Post called “unrelenting” questioning about the Christmas-ad ban, which the judge described as “pure discrimination” and “odious to the Constitution.”

Take another case that arose this year before the D.C. Circuit, Garza v. Hargan. The American Civil Liberties Union sued the Department of Health and Human Services for declining to facilitate an immediate a******n for an unlawful-immigrant minor in federal custody. The district court ruled for the ACLU. On appeal, Judge Kavanaugh and another judge reversed, agreeing with the Trump administration that it did not have to provide an immediate a******n and ordering the district court to give the minor time to find a sponsor so that the government did not have to facilitate the a******n — precisely the relief the administration sought. When the full D.C. Circuit later vacated that decision and ordered the government to facilitate the a******n immediately, Judge Kavanaugh dissented, stating that the majority had “badly erred” in adopting a “radical extension of the Supreme Court’s a******n jurisprudence.” He again endorsed the Trump administration’s position that it did not have to facilitate an immediate a******n on demand. In his opinion, Judge Kavanaugh emphasized the government’s “permissible interests” in “favoring fetal life” and “refraining from facilitating a******n.” (The Supreme Court later vacated the full D.C. Circuit’s order as moot.)

Those recent decisions are just the latest in a long, unbroken line of consistent decisions from Judge Kavanaugh on issues of religion and a******n. During the Obama administration, he v**ed in Priests for Life v. HHS to invalidate the so-called accommodation to the contraceptive mandate, which required religious organizations to sign a form facilitating access to contraceptives for their employees. Judge Kavanaugh was one of few federal judges (Neil Gorsuch was another) to hold that the law imposed a “substantial burden” on the organizations’ exercise of religious liberty, and one of even fewer to conclude that the contraceptive-mandate accommodation violated the law. The Supreme Court later vindicated his position by vacating decisions that upheld the contraceptive-mandate accommodation.

To take yet another example, Judge Kavanaugh in 2010 wrote a lengthy concurrence drawing on American historical tradition and the original meaning of the Constitution to defend the invocation of God and the practice of prayer at official government ceremonies, such as the p**********l inauguration and Supreme Court sittings. The Supreme Court adopted a similar approach several years later in upholding prayer before a town meeting in New York.

Judge Kavanaugh’s positions on these issues stretch back to time before he was on the bench. He is a product of Catholic elementary and high schools. As a lawyer in private practice, he chaired the Federalist Society’s Religious Liberty Practice Group and put aside his paying law-firm work to author pro bono amicus briefs strongly advocating for religious believers in two significant Supreme Court cases, Good News Club v. Milford Central School (2001) and Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe (2000). He is a lector at his parish, and he volunteers with Catholic charities, teaches and mentors in Catholic (and other) schools, and coaches his daughters’ Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) basketball teams.

In short, Judge Kavanaugh’s record on issues of concern to social conservatives is rock solid, and it far exceeds that of any other contender. He is the right person for this pivotal time.

Some social conservatives have asked two particular questions about Judge Kavanaugh’s record in this area. First, some have wondered why he did not address whether the teenager in Garza had a right to a******n in the first place. The answer is simple: The government did not raise that issue in the case. Judge Kavanaugh fully adopted the legal argument that the Trump administration made, holding that the government is not constitutionally compelled to facilitate an immediate a******n for a teenager in immigration custody. That is a strong, bold, and correct application of current law — and it provides every reason for confidence in his jurisprudence.

Second, some have wondered why Judge Kavanaugh in his Priests for Life opinion referred to a “compelling” government interest in providing women access to contraception. Again, there is a simple answer: He was describing the compelling interest that five Supreme Court justices had recognized in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (2014), which he was bound to apply as a lower-court judge. And after recognizing that interest, Judge Kavanaugh ruled in favor of Priests for Life, concluding that the Obamacare contraceptive-mandate accommodation violated their religious liberty — another conservative legal ruling that for social conservatives should only build confidence in his judicial philosophy.

Judge Kavanaugh has fearlessly defended his textualist and originalist philosophy.

Speaking of Obamacare, I know how disappointed social conservatives were by the Supreme Court’s unprincipled decision to uphold that law. Judge Kavanaugh dissented from a court-of-appeals decision upholding Obamacare. He called the individual mandate “unprecedented on the federal level in American history” and said that upholding it would “usher in a significant expansion of congressional authority with no obvious principled limit.” He also explained that “no court to reach the merits has accepted the Government’s Taxing clause argument” and that the taxing clause “has not traditionally authorized a legal prohibition or mandate.” Although he ultimately determined that a challenge to Obamacare had to be brought later, he left no doubt about where he stood. No other contender on President Trump’s list is on record so vigorously criticizing the law. And as another of Judge Kavanaugh’s former law clerks has explained in depth, any suggestion that his decision paved the way for the Supreme Court’s disastrous ruling is, as Justice Scalia would later put it in an Obamacare dissent, “pure applesauce.” The Supreme Court Justices who followed Judge Kavanaugh in the Obamacare case were the dissenters, Justices Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Kennedy.

In sum, Judge Kavanaugh has a clear, consistent, and rock-solid record on the issues that matter most to social conservatives. He has repeatedly taken conservative stands and fearlessly defended his textualist and originalist philosophy. And as I can say with confidence from having worked with him closely in chambers for a year — and benefited from his mentorship for a decade — he is a good and decent man who will never waver in the face of pressure from any quarters. He is exactly what constitutional conservatives should want on the Supreme Court.

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He’s just another Classic D.C. Insider

I really hope he doesn’t betray us...