Brett Cavanaugh Praises Merrick Garland: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/05/kavanaugh-praises-merrick-garland-obamas-supreme-court-pick-during-hearing-hes-great-judge.html...

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/05/kavanaugh-praises-merrick-garland-obamas-supreme-court-pick-during-hearing-hes-great-judge.html

Kavanaugh praises Merrick Garland, Obama's Supreme Court pick, during hearing: 'He's a great judge'

By Kaitlyn Schallhorn | Fox News, September 5th

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh praises Merrick Garland, comments on how their published opinions on the D.C. Circuit mirror each other.

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh praised Chief Judge Merrick Garland – who was nominated to the nation’s highest court by former President Barack Obama – as “hardworking” and a “great judge.”

During Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, noted that Kavanaugh and Garland have a very similar record on issues they v**ed on together while on the D.C. Circuit Court. Cruz claimed the two v**ed together 93 percent of the time; he also said Garland joined about 96 percent of the published opinions authored by Kavanaugh when they were on the same panel.

Senate Republicans infamously declined to consider Garland’s confirmation to the Supreme Court after he was nominated by Obama following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016. As the vacancy was at the very end of Obama’s term, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the decision of a new Supreme Court justice should be left up to the next president – Donald Trump.

The refusal to consider Garland’s confirmation is still a point of contention for Democrats, many of whom have vociferously protested Kavanaugh’s own hearing.

Of the similarities between the two judges noted by Cruz, Kavanaugh said, “I think we’re trying hard to find common ground.”

“As I’ve said before, [Garland is] a great judge – a great chief judge – and he’s very careful and very hardworking, and we work well together and try to read the statute as written, read the precedent as written,” Kavanaugh said. “He’s a judge – like I try to be as well – a judge who’s not trying to impose any personal preferences onto the decision but take the law as written, and that’s what I’ve tried to do in those cases and that probably explains some of that.”

“I think it also goes back to – I think judges are distinct from policymakers, and I think that shows up when you dig into the actual details of how courts operate and go about their business,” he continued.

Garland was appointed to the powerful federal appeals court in the District of Columbia by former President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, in 1997; he was elevated to chief judge of the court in 2013.

Kavanaugh was appointed to the court by former President George W. Bush, a Republican, in 2006.

woodguru

Garland was scored as a centrist, with a very slight lean to the conservative side...

...Kavanaugh is not even close, he scores harder right than Scalia, he is a partisan hack, and rules on critical issues with the conservative religious and political ideology. Garland could be counted on to stay within the rule of law. 93 percent of the time says it all, it's that 7 percent that is the deviation that points to drifting from the law and ruling in a partisan fashion.

Kavanaugh has recent rulings (where he was immediately overturned) that indicate he is not fit for the supreme court.

Liberty Tree

He just scares you to death doesn't he? One more point in his favor.

woodguru

Liberty Tree wrote:

He just scares you to death doesn't he? One more point in his favor.

You don't get it that he is not a centrist judge, which means he rules on partisan lines, of course that scares me, it should scare anyone who wants a supreme court that adheres to the law. Just keep judges that have no lean toward the right or left as a standard. It would freak you out if a dem was trying to put a hard liberal on the bench.

To the right they look at any v**e that goes against the conservative point of view as liberal, v**es that are perfectly on point with the law are seen as liberal if the right's point of view is at stake.

woodguru

Liberty Tree wrote:

He just scares you to death doesn't he? One more point in his favor.

And that is all ignorant people care about, your comment says it all.

Radiance3

slatten49 wrote:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/05/kavanaugh-praises-merrick-garland-obamas-supreme-court-pick-during-hearing-hes-great-judge.html

Kavanaugh praises Merrick Garland, Obama's Supreme Court pick, during hearing: 'He's a great judge'

By Kaitlyn Schallhorn | Fox News, September 5th

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh praises Merrick Garland, comments on how their published opinions on the D.C. Circuit mirror each other.

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh praised Chief Judge Merrick Garland – who was nominated to the nation’s highest court by former President Barack Obama – as “hardworking” and a “great judge.”

During Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, noted that Kavanaugh and Garland have a very similar record on issues they v**ed on together while on the D.C. Circuit Court. Cruz claimed the two v**ed together 93 percent of the time; he also said Garland joined about 96 percent of the published opinions authored by Kavanaugh when they were on the same panel.

Senate Republicans infamously declined to consider Garland’s confirmation to the Supreme Court after he was nominated by Obama following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016. As the vacancy was at the very end of Obama’s term, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the decision of a new Supreme Court justice should be left up to the next president – Donald Trump.

The refusal to consider Garland’s confirmation is still a point of contention for Democrats, many of whom have vociferously protested Kavanaugh’s own hearing.

Of the similarities between the two judges noted by Cruz, Kavanaugh said, “I think we’re trying hard to find common ground.”

“As I’ve said before, [Garland is] a great judge – a great chief judge – and he’s very careful and very hardworking, and we work well together and try to read the statute as written, read the precedent as written,” Kavanaugh said. “He’s a judge – like I try to be as well – a judge who’s not trying to impose any personal preferences onto the decision but take the law as written, and that’s what I’ve tried to do in those cases and that probably explains some of that.”

“I think it also goes back to – I think judges are distinct from policymakers, and I think that shows up when you dig into the actual details of how courts operate and go about their business,” he continued.

Garland was appointed to the powerful federal appeals court in the District of Columbia by former President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, in 1997; he was elevated to chief judge of the court in 2013.

Kavanaugh was appointed to the court by former President George W. Bush, a Republican, in 2006.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/05/kavanau... (show quote)

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Excellent. That must be done by a man of integrity. His great confidence on himself, and he must be, allowed him to recognize the merits of others, with honesty and p***e of heart. Judge Kavanaugh has all the self-confidence and wisdom he got that could not be surpassed by anybody.

May God bless him, and eventually be confirmed against this liberal hatred, afraid that the Judge might prevent them doing their a******ns. The Judge follows the constitution, and if he does that, the liberal women must be confident, he won't prevent them from the baby k*****g business.