proud republican wrote:
So what do you guys think????......
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President Trump made the right choice. Brett Kavanaugh is the best among the best.
I am so elated for this choice. Thanks Mr. President.
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The Yale grad will be another sturdy conservative, somewhere between Neil Gorsuch and Chief Justice John Roberts.
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After more than the usual buildup, orchestrated by a master of reality TV, President Trump has chosen his nominee for the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Anthony Kennedy. And he’s playing it safe.
Trump’s pick:
Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Is a graduate of Yale Law School with highest honor.
Has taught at Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown.
And served in President George W. Bush’s administration before being named to the Court of Appeals. Like Trump’s prior nominee, Neil Gorsuch.
Kavanaugh has a gold-plated resume and Federalist Society credentials. And, also like Gorsuch, he’s a former law clerk to Justice Kennedy. (And he was hired to teach at Harvard Law School by then-Dean, now Justice, Elena Kagan).
Speaking after Trump’s announcement, Kavanaugh stressed lessons learned from his mother’s experience teaching in largely African-American high schools in the District of Columbia.
Her later experience going to law school and serving as a prosecutor.
His father’s night-school legal education and later law practice. He stressed judicial independence, and fidelity to statutes and the Constitution, interpreted as written, not as imagined.
Separation of powers doctrine
He stressed that the Constitution’s doctrine of separation of powers isn’t just a technicality, but supports individual liberty, and he noted that a majority of his clerks have been women. He stressed his daughters’ interest in reading and sports.
He pledged to keep an open mind in every case, and to support the rule of law.
But what kind of a Supreme Court justice will he make? And what can we say about the confirmation process?
With regard to the former, it’s likely that he will be another sturdy conservative, somewhere between Neil Gorsuch and Chief Justice John Roberts.
Kavanaugh has been a judge for a while, and is pretty much a known quantity.
Some conservatives would have preferred someone farther to the right, but realistically Kavanaugh fits Trump’s stated requirements for the court, and Kavanaugh is probably a safe pick, unlikely to pose any surprise problems in the confirmation process. As Republican lawyer/author Kurt Schlichter put it, “We couldn't lose. And with Kavanagh, we haven't.”
More: Make the Supreme Court lots bigger. It's not a priesthood, it should represent America.
Kavanaugh will be a solid v**e for constitutional fidelity and judicial restraint. Some firebrands might have preferred more of a . . . well, firebrand, but with midterm e******ns coming and a narrow majority, Trump wanted a solid pick, a Harvard/Yale guy who’s likely to sail through the confirmation process. And that’s what he got. Plus, on the D.C. Circuit, Kavanaugh has a strong record in support of the Second Amendment.
As for the confirmation process, well, Kavanaugh will sail through it unless Democrats get their way. Even before Trump had named his nominee, some Democrats were promising to oppose whoever he named. Democrats desperately need a win before the midterms, and many of them are spoiling for revenge after the Senate’s refusal to confirm Obama’s appointee, Judge Merrick Garland.
Brutal confirmation fight.
Brett Kavanaugh is a Catholic. Brett Kavanaugh is the only child.
He has a beautiful wife and 2 beautiful young daughters.
He served as an Altar Boy when very young, and the priest he served was present during his nomination.
He has loyalty to the family of Justice Scalia whose wife, and 2 brothers were present during his nomination.
Brett Kavanaugh is truly an exemplary, had ruled, and will rule with justice according to the constitution. His golden resume speaks loud and clear for that.
May God bless Justice Brett Kavanaugh. May God bless president Trump and America.