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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBrett Kavanaugh Cannot Have It Both Ways
Brett Kavanaugh and I differ on most fundamental questions of constitutional law. Nevertheless, as a former dean of the institution where he received his law degree, I have withheld comment on the merits of his appointment. I am proud of the rich diversity of views that Yale Law School has produced.
Over the past decade, Kavanaugh has been a casual acquaintance. He seemed a gentle, quiet, reserved man, always solicitous of the dignity of his position as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. It was therefore with something approaching unbelief that I heard his speech after Christine Blasey Fords testimony.
With calculation and skill, Kavanaugh stoked the fires of partisan rage and male entitlement. He had apparently concluded that the only way he could rally Republican support was by painting himself as the victim of a political hit job. He therefore offered a witches brew of vicious unfounded charges, alleging that Democratic members of the Senate Judicial Committee were pursuing a vendetta on behalf of the Clintons. If we expect judges to reach conclusions based solely on reliable evidence, Kavanaughs savage and bitter attack demonstrated exactly the opposite sensibility.
I was shell-shocked. This was not the Brett Kavanaugh I thought I knew. Having come so close to confirmation, Kavanaugh apparently cared more about his promotion than about preserving the dignity of the Supreme Court he aspired to join. Even if he sought to defend his honor as a husband and father, his unbalanced rantings about political persecution were so utterly inconsistent with the dispassionate temperament we expect from judges that one had to conclude that he had chosen ambition over professionalism.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/06/kavanaugh-confirmation-temperament-yale-dean-221086
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Thomas and now him. The US SC smells.
ZZenith
(4,124 posts)So completely done with these people.
manor321
(3,344 posts)He's now a Supreme Court Justice for the rest of his life.
And today the President of the United States says he was proved innocent and was attacked by evil people.
That's where we are.
czarjak
(11,278 posts)The test of time.
Cha
(297,323 posts)G.D. Anti-Christ himself.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)This guy is the square root of 666, to the eleventieth bazillion power!
Cha
(297,323 posts)That's the bottom line.. trump is from the 666th circle of hell. Of course he's going to lash out spewing "evil" epithets at the Angels.
That would be us
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)add alcohol and shake with ice. Not a good combo.
burrowowl
(17,641 posts)Control-Z
(15,682 posts)Thank you for posting it. I really need to hear what respectable people, outside of DU, are saying.
Cha
(297,323 posts)fucking all the world to see.
Lashing out 'cause of his own little persecution complex like a stupid frat boy
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)And he fully expects it to be that way.