White Supremacist-in-Chief Donald Trump just nominated conservative white guy Brett Kavanaugh to replace the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court. The move serves two obvious purposes—only one of which is of any interest to Donald: 1) Kavanaugh will likely side in favor of forced-birther challenges to Roe v. Wade, and 2) Kavanaugh has written glowingly about how sitting presidents shouldn’t have to deal with petty problems like special investigations into serious charges of illegal misconduct. Trump could give a rat’s ass about abortion, having been pro-choice all the way up until he wasn’t—a little while before the Republican primary in 2016. And be aware: Kavanaugh was birthed in the unconstitutional shitshow that was the 2000 election, working in the George W. Bush campaign and later making his way into Bush’s White House and finally, after a lot of fighting, into a position on the D.C. Court of Appeals.
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Now cast your mind back: Remember in 2010, when U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan was first nominated? The Republican Party, behind awful people like Sen. Mitch McConnell saw a chance to revitalize their base via their homophobia and misogyny. Here’s the CBSNews reporting on the upcoming “fight” the Republican Party was planning for Kagan:
Now, with opinion polls showing a weakened president and critical midterm elections looming -- and with a steady stream of documents from past jobs showing Kagan taking predictably liberal positions -- Republicans are poised for a fight.
Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said on Sunday's "Face the Nation" that Kagan has "serious deficiencies," citing her lack of judicial experience and her positions on a number of social issues.
This was after President Obama was popularly elected and had a considerably higher approval rating for the first part of his tenure in office, than the dirtbag there now. Republicans made a big to-do about the thousands of emails released by the Clinton Library—now let’s just watch if the thousands of Kavanaugh emails in the George W. Bush Library will be released as well.
It took about three months between President Obama’s announcement until Kagan was confirmed by the Senate. And during that time, scam artists and bigots like Jeff Sessions and Mitch McConnell griped about Kagan for everything from her supposed lack of “experience” to questioning whether or not she broke the law by banning military recruiters on the Harvard campus because of their homophobic service policies at the time.*
McConnell has already emerged from his secret cave of one thousand sorrows to wring his hands and ask for “fairness” for Kavanaugh. Considering that McConnell’s greatest legacy will always be that he helped orchestrate one of the most massive overreaches in legislative power in the history of the country by stealing away the executive’s decision on the U.S. Supreme Court seat vacated by Justice Anton Scalia’s death, Mitch McConnell could care about as much about “fairness” as Donald Trump cares about the facts or the law.
If Sen. Chuck Schumer doesn’t have the stamina to stand truly strong for something, it’s time for him to step aside. Our country is at stake.
*She didn’t.