āIām not adding [the requirement], Iām a judge.ā
Thatās the kind of logic that judges, āliberalā as well as āconservative,ā express all the time. Iām just following the rules, not making them. Iām an umpire. And itās a crock.
He blew past Durbinās question as to whether the immigration sponsor was a state requirement, and stressed that his opinion acknowledged the ādifficult situationā the immigrant minor was in.
āAnd as an anti-choice, repeal Roe v. Wade judge I wanted to make that ādifficult situationā a damned near impossible situation, with the added bonus that I was doing it to an immigrant.ā
Itās the ever popular, at least in this administration, claim: Donāt bother me with facts.
Gee, you nailed Kavanaughās attitude perfectly. He is self-righteous and self-protective - and, hearing him speak, I am more nervous than ever about the future decisions coming out of a Supreme Court with Kavanaugh on it.
Lying liars gonna lie.
āJust to twist the knife, I shed as many crocodile tears as I thought appropriate.ā
I wish one could ask questions like āAs a believer in an omnipotent god, how do you explain not yet having been struck down already for the perversions you have uttered?ā
Anyone whoās ever watched a baseball game knows that despite the strike zone being defined in the rule book, umpires have wildly divergent ideas on where a batterās knees and the letters on the uniform are.
There is a story told by Ted Williams (of doubtful veracity, but this one I choose to believe, or at least that something like it occurred) of talking with an umpire after a game and ā with Williamsās legs flat against a wall ā asking the ump to touch his knees. It did not go well.
soon, we will have women having to have permission to get an abortion, if they can find a state to get one done in
He blew past Durbinās question as to whether the immigration sponsor was a state requirement
If Durbin ran out of time, another Senator should revisit this, and demand an answer.
This is a key point.
Kav delayed and delayed, on top of the previous 7 week search for a sponsor, hoping to delay to the 20 week deadline.
This is the abortion question that should be posed to Kavanaugh: ā how do you plan to strip women of control over their own bodies? Will you rubberstamp all state imposed restrictions that effectively outlaw abortion or will you just outright reverse āRoe v. Wadeā?
Iād follow up a bunch of times if he is evasive.
plus it wonāt be covered by any health insurance.
He pretended to be so concerned that this minor, alone & without English skills, have an adult available to āhelpā with such a ādifficultā decision as abortion.
I wanted to ask him if he can figure out how an unaccompanied girl held in detention gets pregnant? In my state, that is called RAPE. I think a victim deserves to have control of her body for at least once. It is not a difficult choice for her!
I would spit on him. Totally unfit!
Not only that, but they donāt see the inside and outside corners alike, either. Burns me almost every day.
Republican questioning of Judge Kavanaugh today noted that in his lower Court ruling in the āHamdanā decision he basically held that non-citizens have the same Constitutional rights as citizens. He affirmed that view in todayās hearing. Look at Kavanaughās opinion as described in this article. When it came to abortion rights he he held a contrary view, denying the right of an illegal immigrant to have an abortion. Quite telling, Kavanaugh is all for constitutional rights, except when it comes to abortion.
āIām not adding [the requirement], Iām a judge,ā Kavanaugh said. āThe policy is being made by others."
Yes, all the laws and policies are made by others, so that observation is meaningless distraction. Your role as a Federal judge included determining whether or not those āothersā had created a law or policy that that conformed to the US Constitution.
In this particular case, the US official decided that he held the equivalent of parental authority over the pregnant immigrant and he was opposed to allowing the young woman to obtain a legal abortion.
This guy is a very committed Catholic. Iām sorry, but he definitely is anti-abortion and will find a logical reason to remove this right from American Women.
He strikes me as the type who wants to be a benevolent father-type to everyone who is ābeneathā him. Women, homeless, undocumented immigrants. He knows best.
He coaches, he feeds the homeless, he tutors the poorā¦ GAK!
I am assuming he will soon be turning water into wine at the request of one of the repub senators.
Shorter Kavanaugh: Any regulations some Trump functionary chooses to pull out of his ass should prevail over any Constitutional rights which might apply to this young human female who ought to have brought this unwanted pregnancy to term.
Not your call, brother.
His job, he said, was to asses whether the Trump administrationās policy was consistent with Supreme Court precedent.
Asses? I think someoneās spell check knew what it was doing!
And why the fuck do these guys even act like they give one fucking iota about an unborn latino?
Heās answering the question he wished had been asked, not the one posed to him. They all do it.