So, yes. it was front and center on their minds. And, your choice of language…Just as they perceive it too, I’m certain.
And it’s all fine. Really. But let’s be honest, he was right.
The veil has slipped all right.
It is all partisan. My thing is, he was actually being honest to point out what we all know. Further, I find it bizarre that we’d expect some stone-faced drooling dolt, who’d have to be completely oblivious to the environment he is in, to be wise enough to sit on the bench…
Someone (Bauber?) posted much earlier that this Supreme Court stuff isn’t really going to affect any of our daily lives due to the status quo -power + big money rules, same shit, different clothes. I tend to agree…well, except for Justice Roberts and ObamaCare (it’s a tax!) LOL.
It’s evil, a little, but I will take (great) pleasure in the fact that the same people who propped up Trump because he was the one clown HRC could easily defeat…and then cried afterwards, are the same people who tried to witch trial someone’s life, and are now apoplectic over this farce’s conclusion -a galvanized Justice Kavanaugh! Unlike President Trump, Justice Kavanaugh will last for decades…notwithstanding EyeDentist’s unicorn vision of Kavanaugh’s future impeachment.
Wrt Samuel Chase:
'in Jefferson’s day. His Democratic-Republicans enjoyed more than a two-thirds majority in the Senate and weren’t able to pull it off."
That’s ok, but I’d ask this - if a liberal SCOTUS used his/her Senate hearing to rage against FoxNews or the Koch brothers, would you feel the same?
It’s probably going to upset you to learn that the so-called originalists on the court are activists, just of a different stripe. They are happy to abandon the concept of disinterested originalism to generate results they want. See Citizens United and McDonald v. Chicago.
And honestly, of course he’s a partisan - his nomination was probably proof of that from the outset. He had to go before Trump and convince him he’d be the right man for SCOTUS. Does anyone think Kavanaugh sat in front of Trump and delved into judicial philosophy and understanding of constitutional principles? Of course not. Trump is dumb as a box of rocks - he would have no idea about any of that, and worse, he has no curiosity to learn. He wanted to hear which candidate for the bench would make the “libs” cry and torment them with decisions to punish them. If Kavanaugh rose to the top of the list, it’s most likely because he pandered to Trump on those grounds as opposed to impressing him with legal acumen and demonstrated scholarship.
But, that’s neither here nor there. Elections have consequences.