Kavanaugh and Barrett:
John Roberts Retreads?
American Thinker,
by
Rabbi Aryeh Spiro
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
2/26/2021 8:42:35 AM
All that work for, and faith in, Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett! As with John Roberts before, we are once again the victims of unrequited affection and lost labor. Like other Republicans, I expended lots of hours and effort to do my part in getting all three confirmed. I wrote articles, did radio and TV interviews, gave speeches, called Senators and asked my friends to do so, and spoke to countless people.
I even attended the Senate Hearings for two of them; and in the case of Kavanaugh went face-to-face against a wild group of “feminists”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 2/26/2021 8:54:50 AM (No. 708790)
The leftists' tactics, showing them what their lives would be like if they ruled the "wrong way," appears to have worked. A shame that they didn't have more starch in their spines. Of course, never ignore the possibility that the GOPe simply gulled us on judges, just like they did on much else.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Yuban 2/26/2021 8:56:22 AM (No. 708794)
No surprise here. How many so called Conservatives have you voted for turn out to be RINO's? The GOP is made up mostly of RINO's. How else can you get Mitch and McCarthy to lead the GOP in Congress? The GOP is not on your side, unless you are a Moderate or RINO. Stop sending the RNC money. Most of the Moderates that use to post here all the time are gone. They couldn't stand being around Conservatives. Posters that have been around here a few years know exactly what I am saying. Have a blessed day.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MOBeef4u 2/26/2021 9:03:42 AM (No. 708803)
Can’t help but think Kavanaugh and Barrett may have heard, “ You have some cute kids there. It would be a shame if something happened to them.” Tell me that the Left isn’t capable of something like that.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Gallo3 2/26/2021 9:31:59 AM (No. 708840)
When Trump comes back how about he picks his judges from a list different from the list compiled by 'The Federalist Society'?
Appears two out of three of their Trump SCOTUS selections confirmed turned out to be typical pusillanimous RINO Uniparty crocodiles.
With friends like that, who needs enemies?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 2/26/2021 9:32:01 AM (No. 708841)
Apparently we were suckered. It looks like Barrett and Kavanaugh are just globalist, Corruptocrat frauds.
We've been had, again, and again.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Nimby 2/26/2021 9:34:00 AM (No. 708845)
FTA---"Perhaps, Mrs. Barrett wants her children to be accepted in certain Ivy or second-tier influential schools. "
Seriously? Her children are legacy at ND and will get in, no questions asked. Her oldest, who is a student at ND, probably did not have to pay tuition since her mama taught there
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Highlander 2/26/2021 9:40:05 AM (No. 708863)
Apparently, K & B, with Roberts, are holdovers from the “respectable” Rockefeller country-club group of so-called republicans. Not the Party of Lincoln. The kind George Will and Jonah Goldberg admires.
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You HAVE to see this picture of John Roberts introducing his newbies to the globalists, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton at the inauguration.
https://nypost.com/2021/01/20/bill-clintons-mask-struggles-at-inauguration-drive-twitter-wild/
See the first picture. This says it all!!!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Venturer 2/26/2021 9:59:07 AM (No. 708877)
The Roberts Court, The absolute worst in our history.
They don't act like the third cog in our Government
They act more like frightened kids.
The election was a disgrace and a National disaster.
We now have a man as President who even the democrats are afraid he hasn't the mental capabilities to be anywhere near the Nuclear codes. And a woman one step away who slept her way into politics.
That isn't just a complaint , it's a fact.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 2/26/2021 9:59:50 AM (No. 708878)
We'll probably never know the reason(s) why these justices voted against the SC accepting these cases. As there are more than adequate precedent cases to have accepted these cases, there decisions were wholly discretionary. I believe they are in fear of the democrats in Congress. They fear the threat of Court packing. The question is whether this fear will continue. Franklin D. Roosevelt was not able to pack the SC but I believe that threat had a tremendous impact on the SC as it thereafter turned liberal long before the so-called "[Earl] "Warren Court" when thereafter the SC commenced legislating from the Bench. It has been doing so for decades. I was a member of the U.S. Supreme Court Bar for decades.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
donnaclaire 2/26/2021 10:09:03 AM (No. 708891)
Still believe SCOTUS (with a couple of exceptions) is afraid of 'the Left' in America. Today's Leftists/Democrats and their powerful surrogates in the MSM and elsewhere are extremely adept at nasty intimidation, threatening language and actions - and vengeful reminders of extreme repercussions if they and their ideas and goals are not adhered to and 'applauded'. Remember Schumer's rage and threats against members of the Supreme Court not so long ago? Can't help but be reminded of another regime prominent in our recent past. The common denominator with 'that bunch' is that no matter how much power a regime has, they're constantly working and fighting to gain it all.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/26/2021 10:09:12 AM (No. 708892)
Those three Trump nominated Justices had to be pre selected by the establishment Republicans and McConnell before their names were ever passed up to Trump for his nominations. So it is possible that those three Justices are simply RINOs and never Trump folks. Remember that the Democrats have been reporting to the American people that they have considered Trump to be an illegitimate President from the get-go. So it follows that the Democrats would also consider all of Trump’s executive actions and nominations to be illegitimate and subject to be reversed as the Democrats return DC governing to the Democrat norm or system. We see Biden doing that now in regard to Trump’s executive actions.
Not long ago Schumer gave a speech outside the Supreme Court where he warned the three Justices nominated by Trump that if they crossed the Democrat political agenda with their decisions that they would reap a political whirlwind. That certainly was an act of intimidation and a threat against those Justices, that apparently worked, as we can see displayed in the tone of their politically based decisions since. What is the whirlwind that Schumer mentioned? Could it be that the Democrats might well impeach all three of those Trump judicial nominees if their decisions Buckingham the Democrat political agenda? Since the Democrats consider the Supreme Court to be a panel of super legislators, if the Democrats can scare Roberts out of his Chief Justice position, look for Biden to nominate Obama as Roberts replacement.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mathman 2/26/2021 10:41:18 AM (No. 708929)
C'mon man. You don't run like a scalded cat if there has been no boiling water.
These "Justices" were threatened, or rather promised, about what would happen to their children if they defied the Mob.
Mobs rule. That is why they call it Mob Rule. BLM and Antifa do not play. They Kill. They Burn. They Riot. They Loot. They have no heart and no mercy. Go against them and die. No Mercy and No Quarter.
The Deep State will survive.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 2/26/2021 10:41:43 AM (No. 708930)
The list of Pubbie-appointed traitor justices is a mile long - - but - -
- - the list of demonrat-appointed traitor justices doesn't exist.
Leftists always fight like demons - - and Pubbies never fight at all. Sorry - - but that's what we're stuck with.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
idahoskook 2/26/2021 10:46:12 AM (No. 708936)
Sadly, I must say that as a former Catholic........ I saw this coming.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MDConservative 2/26/2021 11:36:00 AM (No. 708977)
The Rabbi learned a lesson that many refuse to accept: The UNIPARTY/GOPe is not acting in the best interests of "conservatives". Led by Mitch and McCarthy, they are glad to take your money and say all the right things at your Lincoln-Reagan dinners, promise great things over the horizon with your support...and then they work to perpetuate themselves and their successors. Meanwhile the masses see RINOs...the RINOs see marks to be worked. And this good Rabbi is a good example of a true believer, now seeing truth.
PDT chose these "originalists" on the advice of others, insiders all, undoubtedly. PDT's Achilles heel was personnel, and it was primarily because he was an outsider, a businessman, and had no coterie of politicos working on his behalf. He had little choice but to accept the assessments of insiders, and these are the results.
So we have a second coming of the Warren Court, thanks to the "conservative" insiders. Just one justice away...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
earlybird 2/26/2021 11:40:48 AM (No. 708983)
As good a way of putting it as I can think of. Retreads. Gutless. Go along to get along….
Will they prove us wrong? When?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Jebediah 2/26/2021 11:57:44 AM (No. 709009)
Can not BEGIN to say how absolutely DISGUSTED I am by these two. (Apparently, Alito, Thomas and Gorsuch are as well from what they have said.). I fought like mad for Kavanaugh when the hoards were descending in that horrendous fraud of sexual predation. And heard ALL the hype about Barrett. Do not believe either at this point. Disgusted beyond words!!!!!!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Charlesqx 2/26/2021 12:13:03 PM (No. 709024)
Reply13, mathman, your first paragraph says what I have thought and wondered about as well. And Reply12, bighambone, you make a good case for a little less direct, but just as effective intimidation tactics along with the other possibility of them being just plain RINO’s at heart. But of all the appointees, Kavanaugh stands out as being the hardest get my head around. If I had went through what Kavanaugh did, I either would have decided it wasn’t worth my family’s safety to continue and withdraw my nomination. Or I would have made damn sure once I got in, that I would not cow-tow or fold under to the very people that made my family’s and my life hell by accusing me of all those heinous things. As a Husband, father, and a man of simple principle, what Kavanaugh has done just doesn’t make sense.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
rytwng 2/26/2021 12:51:11 PM (No. 709067)
The Democommunist party won't have to pack the court, it's already packed.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
SALady 2/26/2021 12:51:42 PM (No. 709068)
Yeah, for every conservative who truly believed we would start seeing solid 6-3 decisions favoring the conservative side of issues from the SCOTUS, we were incredibly stupid!!!
The swamp goes deep in Washington DC -- all the way to the Supreme Court.
Our only choices now are clearly secession or Civil War 2!!! And secession will be a lot less bloody. We can do secession in Texas. I feel sad for all the land-locked states where Civil War 2 is probably the only thing keeping them from being part of the newest socialist dictatorship!!!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
lakerman1 2/26/2021 12:57:19 PM (No. 709077)
Please allow me to explain the complicated issues here. In al my years as a professor, I hardly ever talked down to my students.
In the instant case, it is necessary for me to do so. Please read my words with an open mind.
When the founding fathers wrote the U.S. Constitution, they left a gap in it, on the matter of courts and constitutionality. That probably happened because they created a relatively weak central government, with specific responsibilities, and gave everything else to the states and the people therein.
Article I dealt with the powers of the legislature, Article II dealt the presidency, and Article III dealt, almost breezily, with the federal courts. And the legislature would control the federal courts.
The constitution lacked a means for determining if a law was unconstitutional, and our first wo presidents viewed it as their task to determine constitutionality.
The U.S. Supreme Court members were bored, the first Chief Justice quit for that reason.
Then along came Marbury v. Madison, and McCullough v. Maryland.
Chief Justice John Marshal took over the show, and asserted that the power to determine constitutionality resided with the Court.
And Thomas Jefferson said, 'well all right then!'
A second shortcoming of the constitution was the lack of constitutional advisory opinion on laws not yet passed. Some parliamentary systems provide for high court review of pending legislation - Poland, for example.
That brings us to the election of the president. The founding fathers were not big on any kind of broad suffrage. Early on, only male landowners and taxpayers could vote. The president was to be selected by state legislatures, within the framework of an electoral college. And wise men in the states would make good choices.
When things blew up on election night, 2020, the laws I talked about earlier were used to elect an incompetent old man, who needs elder abuse protection.
That brings us to Barrett and Kavanaugh, both legal scholars. I understand why they chose not to hear the Pennsylvania appeal. In a sense, it would be a pre-review of the 2024 election rules. (Different justices can disagree with that, but I understand it. Should the Court have taken on the appeals, there would have been an acting president at a time when strong leadership was required.
There also was the risk of injecting the Court into every election forward.
My personal opinion, which I continue to respect highly, is that the Pennsylvania case should have been heard, and the Texas et. al. case not heard. Justice Thomas was correct on Pensylvania.
There will be a short quiz tomorrow morning.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Omen55 2/26/2021 3:08:07 PM (No. 709164)
The only real solution is to end lifetime court appointments & set fixed terms & mandatory retirement at 70.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
BarryNo 2/26/2021 3:18:47 PM (No. 709171)
When you step into public life, you must carry the courage of your convictions. You must be willing, as the founders were, to risk everything.
And with the Democrats in charge, you risk life family and friends without hope of reward on this Earth.
And when you die, as we all do, can you stand before God with an easy heart?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
TXknitter 2/26/2021 8:32:45 PM (No. 709345)
I liked your comment already #2, but just had to agree with everything again. Yup, yup to everything.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
deerejon 2/26/2021 8:58:32 PM (No. 709359)
I guess these two Justices are afraid of what Shumer said when he threatened those other two justices about a year or so ago.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Italiano 2/26/2021 9:05:57 PM (No. 709363)
Too early to tell.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 2/26/2021 11:16:06 PM (No. 709423)
"Kavanaugh and Barrett: John Roberts Retreads?". Yep. Gotta keep up with the DC social circuit so those invites for the cocktail parties and cook outs and kids getting comfy government jobs keep coming in.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Muguy 2/27/2021 8:03:23 AM (No. 709615)
I'm not a jurist or have a degree in jurisprudence.
Yet is is abundantly CLEAR to me what the U.S. Constitution says about each state determining its own election laws that should without question be followed. Governors, Secretaries of State, and others who are not members of the Legislature ARE NOT ALLOWED to change those laws.
Justices Barret and Kavanaugh can read for themselves what the law is, and when states abrogate, circumvent, and IGNORE those laws, there IS standing to hear those cases!
This issue had NOTHING to do with social issues.
They caved, someone got to them, or something happened to create fear and cowardice when the issue is CLEAR. If laws were broken or not enforced, they are our court of last resolution where states are involved.
By their actions, or lack thereof, we are only a single thread away from a lawless nation, and most certainly in a Constitutional crisis.
Whether one is a liberal or conservative leaning individual, the Constitution is virtually WRITTEN IN STONE. The media and big tech has gotten the public acting like they worship a 'golden calf'.
The U.S. Constitution is the standard. Without it, everything revolves around raw power and bullying AGAINST the right of the individual citizens and states to govern themselves without interference.
This decision was HUGE, and yet few are even told about it through the media, lest they get mad and organized to stop this being done to them.
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