The Kavanaugh Tale

The worst that can happen to Bret Kavanaugh is he does not get enough votes to be approved for the Supreme Court. He would still remain on the second highest court in America with a lifetime tenure.

Will the Democrats seek to impeach him from that position, or will the Democrats declare victory if they stop him from being appointed to the Supreme Court?

Kavanaugh would then become a foot note in history and sit on the bench the rest of his life making unjust decisions as he has been for years, effecting millions of citizens.

Just a few weeks ago I wrote about 15 lifetime Republican judge appointments that passed through without any debate. Who knows what kind of scum got through because of no investigations, or debate?

Trump has one thing correct; he and the Republicans have been very successful in getting conservative judges appointed to the highest courts in America. That goes a long way to affecting the lives of millions of Americans and the justice they get from their government, which will last for decades, since these are lifetime appointments.

In the old days there were no public hearings on Supreme Court justice nominees, or other federal court nominees. The president would nominate and the Justice Committee would approve, or disapprove usually on party line votes. The Justice Committee never met with these nominees and rarely asked them questions, which were put in writing to the nominee if they had questions.

Ongoing, there should be much deeper investigations and debate on all judgeship's, especially federal lifetime appointed judge nominees. There is a Senate rule that each federal judge nominee should get at least 30 hours of debate, but Schumer allowed that rule to pass when those 15 were approved without debate weeks ago.

Appointing Supreme Court judges was a big issue during the election and that importance was brought to Americans when Republicans denied Obama his pick for the Supreme Court and delayed that pick until they had the White House. 

If it was not clear to Americans before, Americans must know by now just how important these judicial appointments are, which explains some of the screwy decisions we get from judges like Kavanaugh who have been getting a free pass to sit on the highest courts in our land.