democrats Rant And Rave : Kavanaugh Hearing A Circus of Fools

democrats terrified of losing their fall back position 

for legislation to get their ideology into law. 

Really what is going here is no surprise to anyone that isn't totally brain dead. The progressive socialist liberal democrats are terrified of having another judge on the court that will interpret the law as it is written and according to our Constitution.

Imagine having a Conservative court for the next two generation. Judges that believe the Constitution is a real document, the law of the land.

Relying on judges to legislate from he bench is accepted as legitimate policy for democrats as they have no other way to convince citizens they are actually doing the people business through congressional legislation. They have no issues or public policy other then taking control.

What's so much worse maybe is everyone knows this is the agenda of the socialsit democrats but so few responsible people are pushing back, it's just easier to let them rant on. But the catastrophic problem is millions of uninformed and ill-informed people are becoming convinced they are right when no one takes a stand to say they are wrong.

Again and again, everyone has to understand the agenda of he porgressive democrats, it's always the seriousness of the charge that matters, the facts are lost in the screaming and ranting as we witnessed yesterday.

3 Takeaways From Day 1 of Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Fight

Thomas Jipping / Elizabeth Slattery / @EHSlattery / September 04, 2018

The Senate Judiciary Committee kicked off its hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh today, and it was no peaceful outing.

The first day of a confirmation hearing is usually placid, with committee members and the nominee offering fairly predictable opening statements before the nominee begins answering senators’ questions on Day Two.

No such luck.

Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, was 30 seconds into his first remarks when committee Democrats began demanding that the hearing adjourn or be postponed until the latest set of documents on Kavanaugh’s record could be studied. Repeated interruptions by both Democratic senators and protesters in the audience moved the hearing steadily off-schedule.

Here are three key takeaways from the first day.

1. 42,000 pages of documents.

Since Kavanaugh’s nomination, the Judiciary Committee has been steadily receiving, reviewing, and releasing documents related to Kavanaugh’s work from the George W. Bush Library and the National Archives. The latest batch of 42,000 pages arrived Monday evening.

Democrats protested that they did not have time to review that material, with Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., saying that the hearing should not occur at all until everyone had reviewed every document regarding every segment of Kavanaugh’s career.

Republicans reminded everyone that the public already has available nearly 700 judicial opinions (more than 10,000 pages) that Kavanaugh wrote or joined on the U.S. Court of Appeals; 17,000 pages of Kavanaugh’s non-judicial writings and speeches; and (so far) some 350,000 pages of material related to Kavanaugh’s work as associate independent counsel and associate counsel to the president. This volume of information is more than the previous five Supreme Court nominees combined.

The demand for more documents is unusual not only because the committee has so much other relevant material, but because the senators making this demand had long ago announced their opposition to the nomination. In fact, Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., did so within hours of Kavanaugh’s nomination on July 9.

2. Competing visions of the rule of law.

Lawyers—especially lawyers who are senators—love the phrase “rule of law,” but that phrase can mean different things to different people.

Many use that phrase only to mean that they like the result of a judge or court’s decisions. Others mean that the law, following an objective set of rules and principles, rather than the judge, must decide cases no matter which side wins or loses.

The opening statements by senators suggested one or another of these visions. So will the questions (and answers) in the next few days. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., put it best when he said, “It’s almost become a cliché but the role of a judge is to say what the law is, not what the law ought to be.”

3. Executive privilege.

Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., brought up the fact that President Donald Trump invoked executive privilege to block the release of some documents, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., claimed this was the first time this had ever happened in relation to a Supreme Court nomination.

Neither, however, explained why the assertion of executive privilege over these documents was in any way illegitimate or unjustified.

The reason, by the way, that there hasn’t been this much conflict over documents is that senators have previously been much more reasonable in terms of requesting them when legitimate invocations of executive privilege may be involved. For example, when the committee considered President Barack Obama’s nomination of Elena Kagan, the committee did not request records from her service as solicitor general under Obama.

The committee will reconvene Wednesday morning at 9:30. That’s when the real fun will begin.

Each senator will have an opportunity to ask Kavanaugh rounds of questions. Some will take the opportunity to probe Kavanaugh about his legal opinions and reasoning, and others will use the time to grandstand, rail against Trump, and rehash old disputes with the President George W. Bush administration.

Instead, they should take this opportunity to help all Americans who are watching to understand our rule of law and how a potential Supreme Court justice approaches the law.