Kavanaugh On the Court

Hi there!

Three days of Doctor Who posts. Series 11 is off to a great start and Jodie Whittaker is going to be awesome as the Doctor!

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Now back to the real world.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

So Brett Kavanaugh is on the Supreme Court now and…..

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

OK, look I understand the feeling but we’re never going to get through this blog post with all the interrupting “boos”. So cut that out.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh brother.   

Anyway….

Kavanaugh’s on the Supreme Court and….

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

I said to cut that out!

And the Republicans are as giddy as a school girl just before she is sexually assaulted by a class mate and then 30+ years later has to testify in front of a bunch of old white men who do not believe her and be insulted by the alleged President of the United States. Yes, they are that giddy!

Mitch McConnell is just so happy with the way everything turned out. Asked if he thinks the Senate is broken, Mitch said it isn’t and he proud of the way his Republican colleagues comported themselves. 

Of course, Mitch McConnell does think the Senate is broken if he defined the Senate solely on the terms of his Republican colleagues and they got what they wanted, which is Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court now. 

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, I warned you about that. 

There is a lot of focus on the Republican’s repudiation of women in general and sexual assault survivors in particular.  Female protesters, victims of sexual assault, were dismissed as mere clowns, part of a mob of terrorists funded by George Soros. 

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

So you’re going to just keep doing that, huh?

But as bad as it was for Republicans to disregard the voices of so many women, let’s not ignore that they also ignored the voices of a group of people, mostly men if I had to hazard a guess, that also spoke out against Brett Kavanaugh. 

By the time the final vote came up to confirm Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, nearly 2,500 law professors from around the country had voiced their opposition to this man being named a Supreme Court justice. Their lack of endorsement was not tied to the allegations made against Kavanaugh but rather to his response to those allegations. His lack of courtesy and respect towards certain Senators as well as his statements that reflected a politically partisan perspective that reflected poorly on Kavanaugh being an objective arbiter of the law and of the US Constitution. 

The thing is this. Even as Republicans lined up to praise the FBI investigation and declare there’s nothing there to corroborate Christine Blassey Ford’s allegations, there was the man himself whose conduct in his defense was reprehensible, disrespectful and blatantly partisan, qualities that a big chunk of the legal profession said, hey, that guy shouldn’t be on the Supreme Court. 

The myopia on the sexual assault charges and the lack of independent proof gave cover to craven cowards of the Senate Republicans to ignore what could be seen, Kavanaugh’s current unfitness for office.

Except that didn't matter, did it?

Come hell or high water, the Senate Republicans were going to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court. And if poor Brett got a little heated on his behalf, well, the poor little guy was just trying to defend himself from an assault on his character.

The voices of millions of women were going to be ignored. 2,500 law professors joining the chorus would not make a difference.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, go ahead and boo.