Here are my observations and opinions on selected news of the da
FROM KAVANAUGH’S LETTER to Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein:
“As I told the Committee during my hearing, a federal judge must be independent, not swayed by public or political pressure. That is the kind of judge I will always be. I will not be intimidated into withdrawing from this process. The coordinated effort to destroy my good name will not drive me out. The vile threats of violence against my family will not drive me out. The last-minute characterization will not succeed.”
Lady Justice (lifeofthelaw.co)
THE LAW BE DAMNED – In the attempted destruction of Judge Kavanaugh’s career, Sen. Chis Coons (D-DE), a Yale Law graduate, has joined Sen. Kamala Harris (former attorney general of California), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (former attorney general of Connecticut) and Kristen Gillibrand (UCLA Law). You may recall that Harris, Blumenthal and Gillibrand have simply said they believed the accuser.
Appearing on the left-leaning MSNBC, the Constitution-deprived Coons, who plays an attorney on the Judiciary Committee, said that Kavanaugh “bears the burden of disproving these allegations.”
“How does Kavanaugh prove these incidents didn’t take place, especially more than three decades after the alleged fact? How does Kavanaugh prove he wasn’t in a room that’s not been specified, on a date that hasn’t been given, at a party to which three other claimed witnesses either say didn’t happen or that they’ve never even been in the same room with Kavanaugh?” – Ed Morrissey, HotAir
THEN THERE’S SENATOR HIRONO, who recently told men to “just shut up, and step up.” A graduate of Georgetown Law, Hirono plays an attorney on the Judiciary Committee. Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union with Jake Tapper, she was asked, “Doesn’t Kavanaugh have the same presumption of innocence as anyone else in America?
“I put his denial in the context of everything that I know about him in terms of how he approaches cases,” Hirono responded, “His credibility is already very questionable in my mind.”
How’s that for a legal response?
You may not be aware that Hirono has her mind set on derailing the confirmation of Kavanaugh, suggesting that if they’re (the Democrats) successful the seat will be left vacant until the next presidential election; an election she undoubtedly believes will return a Democrat to the White House.
Heather MacDonald, Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, writing in “Drive to destroy Kavanaugh is the worst of feminism,” says,“Kavanaugh has had an unblemished record of treating women with respect.
“The feminist nostrum that the personal is political is being weaponized to subordinate the public realm of ideas to the private realm of sexual relations – all, ironically, in the service of a highly political end: preventing a judicial conservative from being seated on the high court.
“The demand to derail the Kavanaugh nomination is particularly absurd when the alleged incidents (lacking any corroborating specificity of time and place in one case, or any witnesses able to confirm the story in the second) are balanced against Kavanaugh’s subsequent relations with women.”
LAUGH-OF-THE-DAY – “Her story rings true,” – Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) speaking of accuser Christine Blasey Ford’s charge against Judge Kavanaugh.
WHY VOTING EARLY CAN BACKFIRE – Democrat Kyrsten Sinema, who is in a close race with Martha McSally to fill the senate seat soon to be vacated by Jeff Flake, frequently talks about the three years she spent homeless as a child; a heartwarming tale of a family grappling with adversity and overcoming the odds. She referenced how her family lived in an abandoned gas station without running water or electricity.
Crediting the New York Times, “who did some serious digging and obtained court records,“ Jazz Shaw, writing in HotAir reports that the records showed the family had been paying electric, phone and gas bills the entire time.
The gas station wasn’t exactly abandoned. It was closed but owned by a family member. It has a working toilet, and obviously running water. There was a sink and a wood burning stove. “Not great living,” writes Shaw, “but not exactly living under a bridge either.”
Sinema’s step aunt told the Washington Post that the candidate saw it as a “tug at people’s heartstrings … but you know, it’s not the truth.”
“I suppose the question now is how many voters in Arizona are going to care and if it will change their minds,” asks Shaw. “But as for the hard-left base … don’t count on it.”
Late breaking stories like this are exactly why I oppose early voting.
I encourage Republicans and Independents to go the polls and vote for McSally.
POSITIVE IMAGE OF GOP RISES – Forty-five percent of Americans now have a favorable view of the Republican Party, a nine-point gain from last September’s 36 percent, according to Gallup. It is the party’s most positive image since it registered 47 percent in January 2011. Forty-four percent give the Democrat Party a favorable rating.
The overall increase in the favorable image of the Republican Party is a result of a jump in the positive views of Republicans, including Independents, who lean toward the GOP, the survey states. The percentage of Republicans and leaners with favorable views of their party grew from 67 percent to 85 percent over the year.
Interestingly, Republican favorability by women rose to 40 percent from 30 percent since 2017.
May God bless the United States of America.
