Kavenaugh Confirmation Thread

[ThelmaLou]

I didn’t see a thread on this yet. Maybe this isn’t the right forum, but let’s start here.

Day One

• Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday began with a bang, as Democrats moved angrily to adjourn to consider newly released documents and protesters screamed in support. Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, called it “mob rule.”

• Republicans hoped to use the hearings as an opportunity to extol the experience and distinguished résumé of Judge Kavanaugh, a Washington federal appeals court judge, as well as his advocacy for women in the judiciary and aversion to government regulations.

• Democrats are expected to aggressively press Judge Kavanaugh on his positions on Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion rights case in 1973, the scope of executive power, health care, gun control and same-sex marriage.

[Xema]

Democrats are expected to aggressively press Judge Kavanaugh on his positions …

If he has half enough brains to be where he is today, he’ll know that a Supreme Court justice isn’t supposed to take “positions” on controversial topics, but rather to make rulings based on the details of cases that come before the court and the applicable law.

It’s a bit surprising to encounter evidence that the NY Times may not understand this.

[ThelmaLou]

I refer my colleagues to this pre-existing thread. Just found it.

Mods can lock this one. I didn’t look very thoroughly before I started it.