We don't have kings, and this is wrong for Brett Kavanaugh to be nominated as a Supreme Court Justice by Trump.
Trump just nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to be his second Supreme Court justice. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down.
Klamath Falls, OR— Trump is under criminal investigation for collusion and obstruction of justice. He should not be allowed to nominate anyone to a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court.
Brett Kavanaugh is here for a reason: He believes presidents should be exempt from criminal prosecution and investigation while in office.
Trump knows he’s got a friend in Kavanaugh.
Kavanaugh has suggested that Congress pass a law barring sitting presidents from criminal prosecution and investigation, personal civil suits, and questioning from criminal attorneys. He has claimed that presidents can disregard laws they consider unconstitutional, despite what courts say.
And Kavanaugh’s track record shows he is comfortable using his position to further the agenda of fringe-right groups that back him. He declared the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unconstitutional. He wrote that Washington D.C.'s ban on semi-automatic rifles was unconstitutional. He tried to roll back President Obama’s greenhouse gas regulations.
He’s anti-choice — just last year, he argued in favor of prohibiting an undocumented pregnant immigrant in federal custody from getting an abortion. He considers the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional.
Our senators have a choice now: Rubber-stamp a right-wing judge who will never hold the President accountable, or do the right thing.
The Senate’s duty is to advise — not just consent.
John McCain: Republicans will block anyone Clinton names to the Supreme Court.
Almost immediately after news of Justice Antonin Scalia’s death broke, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) proclaimed that “this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new President.”
Nevertheless, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) admitted that Republicans will continue to block anyone the next president nominates to the Supreme Court — at least if that president is Hillary Clinton.
“I promise you that we will be united
against any Supreme Court nominee that
Hillary Clinton, if she were president,
would put up.”
“I promise you that we will be united against any Supreme Court nominee that Hillary Clinton, if she were president, would put up, this is why we need the majority."
McCain, however, is effectively proposing that only Republicans should be allowed to choose Supreme Court justices.
So when you get past the gotcha headlines, breathless reportage, and Trump is president it would be completely decent, honorable, and in keeping with the Senate’s constitutional duty to vote against essentially every judicial nominee he names.
For Democrats, and anyone else who believes in the Constitution and the rule of law, such Justices are not acceptable and cannot be confirmed. When a Trump nominee testifies that he or she will uphold the oath, Senators ought not believe the testimony.
So when Trump appointed Justices cast decisive votes, liberals must denounce the decisions not just as wrongly decided, but as illegitimate. We should “accept” the decisions in the sense of abiding by the results, but we should not accept them as legitimate interpretations of the Constitution or the applicable statute.
In advancing that issue, it will be important for liberals to throw Trump’s manifesto in his face as the basis for arguing that the Supreme Court is acting illegitimately, not just misguidedly.
Conservatives are nothing more than hypocrites for what now the democrats are doing now, they once were willing to do themselves. But the old saying goes, "Do as I say, not as I do."
Hypocrites one and all conservatives are and by the way we don't have kings in the USA, we are a Republic not at Dictatorship or a bunch of Nazis like the GOP.
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