Bennet Officially Announces Opposition To Brett Kavanaugh Nomination

The United States Supreme Court is, by design, a profoundly antidemocratic institution, and as Republicans get ready to ram Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination through the Senate, it’s worth pointing out that it doesn’t have to be this way.

SHAPIRO: So when you look at this week of hearings overall, what are some things that jump out to you? He trod a careful line when it came to Trump.

Responding to Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, Kavanaugh mentioned the importance of lawyers pushing back against a president.

PATRICK LEAHY: Trump claims he has an absolute right to pardon himself.

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh needs to give Sen. It’s a question that I have not written about.

Both Moreland and Garnett stressed Kavanaugh’s record as pointing to a desire to limit Congress’ ability to support administrative agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission to function independently of the executive branch.

If he will rule on the Supreme Court as he has in his previous court decisions, Kavanaugh is expected to restore constitutional order and the balance of power between the three branches of the federal government. “If you torpedo Kavanaugh you’ll likely end up with someone worse”. As I’ve said in some of my opinions, we are all equally American no matter what religion we are or no religion at all.

The accusations will nearly certainly remain a fixture in the debate over Kavanaugh’s nomination as it continues on the confirmation process this month, but there is little sign they will change any votes in the Senate.

The Weekly Standard noted that even the author of the New York Times scoop, Charlie Savage, acknowledged Kavanaugh’s email “stops short of saying whether he personally believed that the abortion rights precedent should be considered a settled legal issue”.

In addition to generating an even more unhinged spectacle of hysteria during the confirmation process, another originalist judge on the bench would allow some of the Supreme Court’s most egregious decisions – like Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion nationwide – to finally be dealt with. Trump appointed Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch previous year.

His nomination would then get a vote on the Senate floor during the week of September 24. Kavanaugh answered, “I’m not – I’m not – I’m not thinking of any right now, senator”.

“The way they’re screaming and shouting, it’s a disgrace to our country actually”, Trump said Friday during a fundraiser in Fargo, North Dakota, for the GOP opponent to Democratic Sen.

The hearing opened with Democrats complaining that various documents had not already been made public by the committee’s Republican leaders. One of the documents, for instance, related to abortion.

Kavanaugh signalled respect for the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling legalizing abortion nationwide, calling it an important legal precedent that had been reaffirmed by the justices over the decades. They don’t all agree.

Sens. Joe Donnelly in IN or Claire McCaskill in Missouri may benefit from a court battle that energizes the Democratic base.

He said the Republicans had changed the rules so that a simple majority of 51 senators is sufficient to confirm Kavanaugh’s appointment, instead of the 66 votes previously required.

TOTENBERG: Largely by treading water nicely. He told the senators that to afford their care they need justices on the Supreme Court who will save the 2010 health care law and its provisions on pre-existing conditions.