'There Will Be Hell to Pay': Former Dean of Yale Law School Calls Kavanaugh Confirmation 'An America
‘There Will Be Hell to Pay’: Former Dean of Yale Law School Calls Kavanaugh Confirmation ‘An American Tragedy’
Robert Post described Kavanaugh as a “casual acquaintance."
By Elizabeth Preza / AlterNet
October 7, 2018, 5:00 AM GMT
In an op-ed published Saturday by Politico, former Dean of Yale Law School Robert Post called Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court “an American tragedy” writing that the nation’s newest Supreme Court justice is the “black-robed embodiment of raw partisan power inconsistent with any ideal of an impartial judiciary.”
Post described Kavanaugh as a “casual acquaintance,” noting he watched the judge’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary committee last month with “something approaching unbelief.”
"With calculation and skill, Kavanaugh stoked the fires of partisan rage and male entitlement,” Post wrote. “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, Kavanaugh’s savage and bitter attack demonstrated exactly the opposite sensibility,” Post wrote, adding he was “shell-shocked” by Kavanaugh’s performance.
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