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2018-09-22 Home Front: Politix

National Review - Grassley's Kangaroo Court

[NR] So now it looks like next Thursday.
But it could be Christmas.
On Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s manifestly meritorious nomination to the Supreme Court, what was supposed to be the vote out of the Senate Judiciary Committee this past Thursday now appears to be sliding into a hearing to be held next Thursday. Or, who knows, maybe a Thursday or two after that. Or maybe The First of Never ‐ though even that would undoubtedly be postponed to The Twelfth of Never.

Delay, delay, delay. It is what the Democrats want and it is what the Democrats are getting. They took the measure of their opposition and figured the GOP would bring a knife to a gunfight. From the first day of the confirmation hearing, committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) ceded control of the proceedings to the minority ‐ in particular, to its ever-harder-Left, mak show presidential primary contestants.

It’s a kangaroo court.

Understand, this is not about Christine Blasey Ford. She’s a tool ‐ a quite willing tool, but a tool all the same. This is not even about the eminently qualified federal circuit-court judge Brett Kavanaugh ‐ it would be no different regardless of which nominee President Trump selected in consultation with White House counsel Don McGahn, the Federalist Society, the Heritage Foundation, and the rest of the originalist, conservative legal community come of age. Democrats do not want a model of constitutional fidelity and judicial restraint elevated to the Supreme Court. End of story.

And who can blame them? Republicans did not want the eminently qualified federal circuit-court judge Merrick Garland to be elevated to the Supreme Court.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-09-22 13:09|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 I can, and do, blame them, and all of you Assholes at National Review. Grassley pisses me off, but you I regard as traitorous dogs.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2018-09-22 14:40|| 2018-09-22 14:40|| Front Page Top

#2 If it were up to NRO, the Committee would be voting on a Beast nominee.

Posted by charger 2018-09-22 16:01|| 2018-09-22 16:01|| Front Page Top

#3 The way they ignore Garlands politics like it doesn't matter, while pointing out the politics of the Judiciary Com is so tone deaf a Steamroller could crush them, and they wouldn't see it until they're half-flat.

Posted by Charles 2018-09-22 18:32|| 2018-09-22 18:32|| Front Page Top

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