Is Brett Kavanaugh a corporate tool?
I have watched some, but not a lot, of the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Brett Kavanaugh.
Overall, he has struck me as a well prepared guy who is probably "qualified" for the seat by experience and intellect, but is a long time 'advocate' for conservative issues, at one time in the Bush white house, and then as a federal judge. I do NOT think that Kavanaugh will even remotely be an independent thinker on the Supreme Court.
I think that Kavanaugh's mode will be to prejudge the cases that come before him and then look like a legal eagle for a 'precedent' that can back up his prejudgement. I am quite sure that will be his mode, and in the hearing he spoonfed us that clue.
Yesterday one of the Democratic senators (it might have been Durbin) asked him about a case that came before the district court where Kavanaugh had been one of the judges. The case involved whether or not some illegal immigrants could have standing as "employees" of a meat packing company which was mistreating them in order to force better treatment through the application of US labor laws.
The overwhelming number of judges on that court agreed that precedent involving the National Labor Relations Board dictated that these people qualified as "employees" according to the applicable laws. Kavanaugh was one of only 1 or maybe 2 dissenters on the case. The great majority of the judges on the court sided with the workers, according to PRECEDENT. But Kavanaugh didnt like that for some reason and he continued to research the matter until he found something that could justify denying these workers their rights and standing. And he wrote a dissenting opinion about it. He told Durbin that HE had found the proper precedent and the other 6 or 7 judges ( the majority opinion) had not. Their precedent was inadequate, according to Kavanaugh.
He claims that he will always vote according to precedent, but that is far from the whole story. He will search high and low to find precedents that will allow him to vote in favor of polluters, big financial interests, predatory lenders, insurance companies, anti-union interests , and other groups in the right wing elite.
Bet on it.
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Both sides should only appoint moderates to the Supreme Court. We have to get back to having cases decided on the merits of the arguments. That is not what happens now and Kavanaugh is part of the problem not the solution.
Is Brett Kavanaugh a corporate tool?
Duh.
He's a Republican.
He fumbled the question about discussing Mueller probe
wouldn't answer hypotheticals, Yet did when he found appropriate
and
by his answers and history, would apparently like Roe V Wade overturned....
he's a low life lying loser, as far as I can te;ll
I think you are basically on the right track. I don't think he has come off well in these hearings at all.