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2019-11-25 -Short Attention Span Theater-

What? Brett Kavanaugh Hails Ruth Bader Ginsburg As An "Inspiration"

[Big League Politics] Brett Kavanaugh has spoken of progressive idol Ruth Bader Ginsburg that terms that are sure to leave many conservatives worried about the judge’s commitment to originalist principles.

Kavanaugh said that the progressive judicial activist was an "inspiration" to him on the court when speaking in one of his first public events since being confirmed to the Supreme Court in one of the most contentious confirmation processes in Supreme Court history.

Somewhat curiously, Kavanaugh neglected to thank President Donald Trump for nominating him and refusing to shelve the nomination when progressives launched a slander campaign accusing the federal judge of sexually assaulting a woman in high school. The smear campaign was totally uncorroborated, and Kavanaugh was ultimately confirmed to the court.

Kavanaugh did thank his supporters broadly for their steadfast battle for his confirmation, however. He was speaking at an annual event of the right-leaning Federalist Society, some of whose members might have been surprised to hear him take inspiration from a progressive known to stand against virtually everything the organization supports.

It’s not without precedent for a conservative Supreme Court judge such as Kavanaugh to speak of a far-left progressive jurist in a favorable light. Deceased Judge Antonin Scalia was known to have a friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, although it doesn’t appear he ever went so far as to refer to the historically unmatched progressive as an "inspiration."

It could be said that Kavanaugh has given some of his conservative supporters cause for concern. Since arriving on the Supreme Court, he’s generally voted in accordance with conservative judicial principles, but he’s had a few notable hiccups, including voting against a proposal that would allow states to block Planned Parenthood from receiving funding from Medicare programs.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-25 01:24|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 I blame the waters.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-25 01:28|| 2019-11-25 01:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Once you've appointed them for life, you haven't any hold. The Left, on the other hand, is very good at applying pressure.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-25 01:57|| 2019-11-25 01:57|| Front Page Top

#3 I recall reading that, while on the Circuit Court, Judge Kavanaugh voted the same way as his colleague 95% of the time.

That judge's name was Merrick Garland. From the WSJ, Sep 5, 2018:

Sen. Ted Cruz [compared] Judge Kavanaugh’s D.C. Circuit Court votes with those of Chief Judge Merrick Garland. In nearly every panel on which they both sat, they joined each other’s opinions more than 95% of the time, Sen. Cruz said.

“I think we’re trying hard to find common ground,” Judge Kavanaugh said. “As I’ve said before, he’s a great judge, a great chief judge. He’s very careful, hard working, we work well together,” Judge Kavanaugh said, adding that Chief Judge Garland is a jurist “who does not impose any personal preferences” onto his opinions.

Not criticizing or snarking about Kavanaugh... just pointing out the surreal nature of this country's rolling Shitshow that falsely, slanderously painted this middle-of-the-road, thoroughly establishmentarian milquetoast as Genghis Epstein.

We are ruled by morons.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-25 02:06|| 2019-11-25 02:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Mehh... jurists live in world all their own. Needlessly elevated specimens of moral abstruseness.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-25 03:29|| 2019-11-25 03:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Who's Ginsberg's replacement?

Amy Coney Barrett?

Shitshow's gonna get even nastier. Maybe bloody this time.
Gird yer loins.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-25 03:58|| 2019-11-25 03:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Professional courtesy that one does not speak ill of the dead?

However you are correct, never ever have 'lifetime' appointment cause they morph into an aristocracy that knows its above the law because they say what the law is.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-11-25 06:47|| 2019-11-25 06:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Inspiration is not the same as agreeing on the issues.

Posted by Uleck Spererong9442 2019-11-25 06:54|| 2019-11-25 06:54|| Front Page Top

#8 an inspiration of what not to do as a Supreme Court justice

Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2019-11-25 07:24|| 2019-11-25 07:24|| Front Page Top

#9 He can be gracious. She's not long for this world.

Posted by Iblis 2019-11-25 10:38|| 2019-11-25 10:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Maybe this is just the preamble to the eulogy of a co worker

Posted by warthogswife 2019-11-25 11:44|| 2019-11-25 11:44|| Front Page Top

#11 Warthogswife for the win.

People forget that Kavanaugh is an exceedingly gracious man with close ties to Elena Kagan, who reached out and hired him to teach Cobstitutional Law at Harvard when she was Dean of HLS.

Kavanaugh is a gent. What was done to him last year was monstrous and should have resulted in long prison sentences for at least a dozen people who slandered and tried to destroy this good man with their absurd lies.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-25 11:53|| 2019-11-25 11:53|| Front Page Top

#12 Kavanaugh should shut his gob and do his job.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2019-11-25 18:26|| 2019-11-25 18:26|| Front Page Top

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