february 2015 articles
besides blocking Gardiner, McC slowed all of Obama's Federal judgeships for 8 years.
Now is pushing through judges in bunches.
the polluting of the Federal judiciary with political hack ideologues, and the purchasing of state supreme courts is a fundamental strategy of the oligarchy's coup d'etat
Rosenstein Asks Prosecutors to Help With Kavanaugh Papers in Unusual Request
Mr. Rosenstein’s request was an unusual insertion of politics into federal law enforcement.
in an email sent this week to the nation’s 93 United States attorneys,
Mr. Rosenstein asked each office to provide up to three federal prosecutors
“who can make this important project a priority for the next several weeks.”
Names were to be submitted to Mr. Rosenstein’s office by the end of Wednesday.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/us/politics/rosenstein-kavanaugh-do ent-review-prosecutors.html?action=click&module=Ribbon&pgtype =Article
Cuomo Says He'll Sue Supreme Court if Roe v. Wade Overturned
Cuomo was not clear how he would proceed with a lawsuit against the Supreme Court, the highest judicial body in the U.S. It's also worth noting that all judges, including those who serve on the Supreme Court, have judicial immunity and cannot be sued for legal decisions they make.
I wonder which judge he expects would preside over such a case.
Kavanaugh has a big problem with baseball game tickets
lol Cuomo
Catholic asshole extremist, anti-American, anti-Cons utional
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh lauded late Chief Justice Rehnquist for dissenting in Roe vs. Wade and supporting school prayer
Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, gave a revealing speech last fall in which
he lauded former Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist for having dissented in Roe vs. Wade
and
for rejecting the notion of “a wall of separation between church and state.”
He also
praised the late chief justice’s unsuccessful effort to throw out the so-called “exclusionary rule,”
which forbids police from using illegally obtained evidence.
All three of areas of law —
abortion, religion and police searches
— are likely to be in flux if Kavanaugh is confirmed and joins the high court this fall.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-kavanaugh-rehnquist-20180711-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter
Just another huge extremist turd from the thole Federalist Society.
If K isn't approved, Leonard Leo has dozens more turds just like him.
Sen. Manchin: Kavanaugh 'Has All the Right Qualities
Nearly 600 from Yale community sign open letter condemning school's celebration of SCOTUS pick
In an open letter to Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken and other leaders of the school, they ask a really important question about leadership’s willingness to celebrate their own power as people’s civil liberties are at stake.
We write today as Yale Law students, alumni, and educators ashamed of our alma mater.
Within an hour of Donald Trump’s announcement that he would nominate Brett Kavanaugh, YLS ‘90, to the Supreme Court, the law school published a press release boasting of its alumnus’s accomplishment.
The school’s post included quotes from Yale Law School professors about Judge Kavanaugh’s intellect, influence and mentorship of their students.
Yet the press release's focus on the nominee's professionalism, pedigree, and service to Yale Law School obscures the true stakes of his nomination and raises a disturbing question:
Is there nothing more important to Yale Law School than its proximity to power and prestige?
The letter details
why Judge Kavanaugh is a bad choice and gives many reasons why his nomination isn’t worth celebrating.
They also urge Yale Law School to practice “moral courage”; in the final paragraph, the letter
explains what’s at cost.
“Perhaps Judge Kavanaugh will be less likely to hire your favorite students,” the letter says in the closing paragraph.
“But people will die if he is confirmed. We hope you agree your sacrifice would be worth it.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1779653
Kavanaugh's awful SeaWorld dissent shows how different having Merrick Garland on the court would be
the company took the matter to the D.C. Circuit, where the lead attorney
representing SeaWorld was Eugene Scalia, son of the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
In 2014, the court denied the pe ion to review the case on a vote of 2-1, with
Chief Judge Judith Rogers and Judge Merrick Garland holding for the majority.
Judge Kavanaugh dissented.
In a sharply pointed piece published at the website Confined Space run by Jordan Barab, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor at OSHA from 2009 to 2017, he writes:
A former OSHA assistant secretary, David Michaels, said, “In his dissent in the Sea World decision,
Judge Kavanaugh made the perverse and erroneous assertion that the law allows Sea World trainers to willingly accept the risk of violent death as part of their job.
He clearly has little regard for workers who face deadly hazards at the workplace.” [...]
Kavanaugh’s idea of making America great again apparently harkens back to a time before the Workers Compensation laws and the Occupational Safety and Health Act were passed.
Back then employers who maimed or killed workers often escaped legal responsibility by arguing that the employee had “assumed” the risk when he or she took the job and the employer, therefore, had no responsibility to make the job safer.
Maybe the worker even liked doing dangerous work.
Employers also escaped responsibility by showing that the worker was somehow negligent.
(Interestingly, Sea World originally blamed Brancheau for her own death because she hadn’t tied her hair back.)
“Perverse and erroneous.”
Kavanaugh argued that OSHA had acted “paternalistically” and
shouldn’t be deciding for workers whether a particular employment in entertainment and sports—football, boxing, car racing, etc.—is too dangerous.
Rogers and Garland pointed out, however, that the 48-year-old
Occupational Safety and Health Act requires employers to make sure the workplace is safe and not put the onus on employees
to choose whether they want to be employed safely or to risk death every time they show up for work.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1779959
OSHA will be gutted, like CFPB, if not killed, by oligarchy's HACK5 SCOTUS so-called judges.
Kavanaugh compared it to the NFL or NASCAR. Injuries or deaths there aren’t really osha issues either
both of those orgs spend $100Ms protecting the players' safety.
Seaworld essentially did nothing, while an ORCA killed a few performers.
Boots should become an Orca trainer.
Should have put those darn Orca's in time out.
when the Orca is doing it’s final laps around the pool you should take knee in protest in the splash zone
‘Kiss my you know what’: Schumer hamstrung in SCOTUS fight
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...mocrats-716654
And two key moderate Republicans -- Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Susan Collins, R-Maine -- reportedly did not voice any concerns about Kavanaugh in a closed-door meeting of GOP officials this week.
In public, Collins praised Kavanaugh's impressive credentials" and "extensive experience."
Kavanaugh's establishment ties and work with Bush WH probably results in duo's votes - no need for the Dems.
i dont think theres much reason to keep kavanaugh out due to his own qualifications. the only justification would be that you are simply giving him the merrick garland treatment. mcconnell really set a dog precedent
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