Media's biggest Kavanaugh misses: Aspiring hit pieces on Supreme Court pick draw mockery
"The landscape of presidential nominee coverage is littered with examples of picks who withered under political and media scrutiny, like Harriet Miers under George W. Bush or Tom Daschle under Barack Obama.
Yet a string of would-be media hits on President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, have fizzled on impact -- doing little to dent his image and, in some cases, backfiring on the news outlets that published them. "
Talking to my granddaughter (Law School Student" she tells me he is a good choice. This surprised me since she is a little left leaning especially on Roe V Wade. She says he is consistent in his opinions and they are well thought out anve legally sound.
I have to take her word for this.
She also states categorically that he follows case law and precedent.
Any way, Judge Kavanaugh seems to be doing well in the Lions Den.
Yet a string of would-be media hits on President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, have fizzled on impact -- doing little to dent his image and, in some cases, backfiring on the news outlets that published them. "
Talking to my granddaughter (Law School Student" she tells me he is a good choice. This surprised me since she is a little left leaning especially on Roe V Wade. She says he is consistent in his opinions and they are well thought out anve legally sound.
I have to take her word for this.
She also states categorically that he follows case law and precedent.
Any way, Judge Kavanaugh seems to be doing well in the Lions Den.
Kavanaugh ? NO.
"This man and this culture accept cutting holes in the Fourth Amendment because they don't believe that it should protect privacy. This man and this culture accept unlimited spying on innocent Americans by the National Security Agency because they don't believe that the NSA is subject to the Constitution.
This man and this culture even looked the other way in the face of deep state shenanigans against President Trump himself. This man and this culture accept the federal regulation of health care and its command that everyone buy health insurance, called Obamacare. This man and this culture embrace the Nixonian mantra that if the president does it, it is not illegal.
What happened here?
The Kavanaugh nomination is not a question of his qualifications; it is a question of his values. It is dangerous for judges to embrace values that diminish personal freedom rather than expand it. When they do that, they reveal their view that freedom comes from the government, not from within us. Thomas Jefferson and all the Founding Fathers profoundly rejected the government-as-source-of-freedom argument, but Judge Kavanaugh accepts it.
Jefferson once remarked that unless you pick someone's pocket or break someone's leg, no one should care how you exercise your freedom or pursue happiness. I wish the president had nominated a person who believes that, as well. But he didn't."
--- Judge Andrew Napolitano
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/0...
When it's a lifetime appointment being the enemy of my enemy is NOT enough. Values matter more.
Trump needs a better pick on principles.