Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Why all sane Americans should support the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh
By "sane" I mean, you want neither a civil war nor the destruction of America.
I understand that some reasonable people might not agree with Justice Kavanaugh's legal philosophy (legal philosophy, not politics) and prefer a different judge. But Kavanaugh is obviously a legal mind of very high caliber and qualified for SCOTUS. From that standpoint, there's no argument against him.
What his opponents have done is to level completely unsubstantiated and unsupportable calumnies -- smears -- against him at the last minute, in a fashion that makes it almost impossible to respond, and then demand the nomination be suspended. What has been done is completely outside of the Constitution and the rule of law, and substitutes lies and a hysterical mob in their place. If this works, this will become the norm, the new rule. Reasoned argument will have no place in such a world, and it will be anything goes.
Suppose, for example, I point out that Justices Kagan and Sotomayor viciously attacked me many years ago. Like Dr. Ford, I'm unsure what year it was, and the people I've suggested were witnesses deny knowledge of the alleged events, but still... Obviously Justices Kagan and Sotomayor should be indefinitely recused until we get to the bottom of this, right?
No, they should not be. Little as I might like them, I understand that's crazy, and would lead to a world of chaos and destruction.
I understand that some reasonable people might not agree with Justice Kavanaugh's legal philosophy (legal philosophy, not politics) and prefer a different judge. But Kavanaugh is obviously a legal mind of very high caliber and qualified for SCOTUS. From that standpoint, there's no argument against him.
What his opponents have done is to level completely unsubstantiated and unsupportable calumnies -- smears -- against him at the last minute, in a fashion that makes it almost impossible to respond, and then demand the nomination be suspended. What has been done is completely outside of the Constitution and the rule of law, and substitutes lies and a hysterical mob in their place. If this works, this will become the norm, the new rule. Reasoned argument will have no place in such a world, and it will be anything goes.
Suppose, for example, I point out that Justices Kagan and Sotomayor viciously attacked me many years ago. Like Dr. Ford, I'm unsure what year it was, and the people I've suggested were witnesses deny knowledge of the alleged events, but still... Obviously Justices Kagan and Sotomayor should be indefinitely recused until we get to the bottom of this, right?
If the kind of craziness being perpetrated by Feinstein,
Schumer, & Co. and their crazed leftist base is allowed to succeed, it’s
hard to imagine how we’d ever be able to turn return to peaceful, rational
discourse. I think we wouldn’t. This is a brink. Pull back.
Democrats, please walk away.
