Kavanaugh, the Court, politics, perspective

I was listening to Levin last night, and he was spot on about the Democrats, what they've been ramping up for prior to President Trump's SCOTUS pick, as well as the wing-nuttery that continues to ensue now that a pick has been announced...

"For the Democrats this isn’t a Supreme Court — it’s a politburo."

But Mark's broader point is that despite however the beltway elite of either side react, Trump needed to pick a strict constitutionalist. So, now the question is has he?

Related link: Democrats Don’t Fear Brett Kavanaugh, They Fear The Constitution

I'm certain everyone caught the announcement, so you be the judge...

Early accessments and vetting from constitutional organizations such as the Heritage Foundation (here and here) and The Federalist (here and here) appear to indicate that Kavanaugh is the 'conventional conservative' pick. Kavanaugh also has an impressive roster of conservative law clerks backing up his credentials. However, I can't deny that the mention of being hired at Yale by Kagan, clerking for Kennedy, and being appointed to the DC Appeals Court by Dubya prompted some valid concerns. So I looked up a reliable source to weigh out the pros and cons...

Putting Kavanaugh in perspective: The positives and the concerns

The jury will certainly be out for a while, so expect plenty of theater and pretending from now through the vote that will inevitably confirm him. But it's times like these that give pause to the larger reminder of how we've simply given too much power and importance to the Court...

Everyone is so focused on who the President picks for the Supreme Court because we, as a people, have abdicated too much responsibility to the third branch of government. We have allowed five black robed masters to conform the nation's morality to Harvard and Yale instead of letting the gradual, democratic processes that move in various directions chart our moral course. We have allowed courts to decide matters best left to elected officials. We have allowed Congress and the President to pass the buck to the Supreme Court to take care of issues. We have allowed judges to be viewed as arbiters of our future, not just the law. We have given too much importance to the Supreme Court and the founders of this nation would be dismayed.

Dismayed indeed at the oligarchy we've allowed to exist...

The wailing and gnashing of teeth you hear from leftists about the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy is their admission that the massive changes imposed on America are not the result of convincing Americans that the left’s ideas are good but of the leftists convincing a few Supreme Court justices to unconstitutionally impose them on the people.

By building their “new” America on a foundation of sand, leftists have exposed their entire agenda to ruin if the Supreme Court stops being a partisan lawmaking agency and returns to its Constitutional role of interpreting the law in the light of what those who wrote it thought and what the words of the law actually say.

In a true representative republic, the government the Constitution defines and the government the people have agreed to live in, who is on the Supreme Court would be a matter of supreme indifference to everyone, because all the judges are supposed to do is apply the law as written and take into account the intentions expressed by those who put the law, which includes the Constitution, into effect.

But since the 1940s, and accelerating in the 1960s, Leftists have remade the U.S. government and enthroned the unelected judges on the Supreme Court as our true masters.

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Yet another reason why our nation needs to enter a period of correction (jurisdiction and term limits, anyone? Hello, Article V Convention of States!). In the meantime, we should continue to offer prayer for Courts of Justice throughout our land...

ALMIGHTY God, who sittest in the throne judging right; We humbly beseech thee to bless the courts of justice and the magistrates in all this land; and give unto them the spirit of wisdom and understanding, that they. may discern the truth and impartially administer the law in the fear of thee alone; through him who shall come to be our judge, thy Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen.

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ADDENDUM: Tuesday's Levin digs in even further with a healthy dose of skepticism...

Levin: ‘We are constitutionalists and we get to ask questions too’

Never one to cheerlead for anything other than constitutionality, Levin tackled the risk factor on Tuesday's program.