From The Daily Beast:
The likely confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court will be yet another blow to the Court’s legitimacy, at a time when our democratic institutions are already under intense strain.
This is not because Kavanaugh is a dyed-in-the-wool conservative (which he is) or yet another justice handpicked by the Federalist Society and its Machiavellian boss, Leonard Leo (which he also is). Presidents pick Supreme Court justices, and the Senate confirms them — and when, in this case, both offices are controlled by conservatives, a rightward tilt is a feature, not a bug.
If liberals had really cared about reproductive rights, LGBT equality, voting rights, etc., they would have supported Trump’s opponent more fervently, instead of ranking the Supreme Court near the bottom of their priorities, as reflected in 2016 polling. (The Christian Right, of course, placed it near the top.)
Nor is the issue Kavanaugh’s temperament, conduct, qualifications, or intelligence, all of which are, by all accounts, superlative. Brett Kavanaugh is not Clarence Thomas.
Rather, the Kavanaugh confirmation threatens the Court’s legitimacy for three reasons: Russia, Roe, and — as was pointed out repeatedly during the first day of confirmation hearings on Tuesday — the redaction of his records.
Read the entire article.
I mentioned Brett Kavanaugh in an earlier post of mine.
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