Opinion of Brett Kavanaugh

[Illiniwek]

Mega HP. Would have much preferred a conservative nominee who is at least a decent person. Not sure why we had to double down on finding the most terrible person for the job.

[Kleine Scheiße]

Not just hopelessly unqualified for the position but a genuinely terrible human being.

He could never hope to be half the man that even Neil Gorsuch is. His confirmation was the moment the Trump administration became illegitimate.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Mega HP. Would have much preferred a conservative nominee who is at least a decent person. Not sure why we had to double down on finding the most terrible person for the job.

Yeah seriously, this was Trump's pick fair and square this time, it didn't have to be Kavanaugh. It could have been any similarly right wing justice without the baggage.

[Kleine Scheiße]

Mega HP. Would have much preferred a conservative nominee who is at least a decent person. Not sure why we had to double down on finding the most terrible person for the job.

Yeah seriously, this was Trump's pick fair and square this time, it didn't have to be Kavanaugh. It could have been any similarly right wing justice without the baggage.

He easily could have pulled Kavanaugh and nominated Thomas Hardiman to wide approval. Hardiman would've cleared 60 votes.

[DavidB.]

Mega HP. Would have much preferred a conservative nominee who is at least a decent person. Not sure why we had to double down on finding the most terrible person for the job.

Yeah seriously, this was Trump's pick fair and square this time, it didn't have to be Kavanaugh. It could have been any similarly right wing justice without the baggage.

He easily could have pulled Kavanaugh and nominated Thomas Hardiman to wide approval. Hardiman would've cleared 60 votes.

As if similar nonsensical accusations wouldn't have been made about him or anyone else. You know better than this.

[Kleine Scheiße]

Mega HP. Would have much preferred a conservative nominee who is at least a decent person. Not sure why we had to double down on finding the most terrible person for the job.

Yeah seriously, this was Trump's pick fair and square this time, it didn't have to be Kavanaugh. It could have been any similarly right wing justice without the baggage.

He easily could have pulled Kavanaugh and nominated Thomas Hardiman to wide approval. Hardiman would've cleared 60 votes.

As if similar nonsensical accusations wouldn't have been made about him or anyone else. You know better than this.

Nope, because Dr. Ford's accusations were not nonsensical.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Mega HP. Would have much preferred a conservative nominee who is at least a decent person. Not sure why we had to double down on finding the most terrible person for the job.

Yeah seriously, this was Trump's pick fair and square this time, it didn't have to be Kavanaugh. It could have been any similarly right wing justice without the baggage.

He easily could have pulled Kavanaugh and nominated Thomas Hardiman to wide approval. Hardiman would've cleared 60 votes.

As if similar nonsensical accusations wouldn't have been made about him or anyone else. You know better than this.

This didn't happen to Neil Gorsuch, and you know it.

[Frenchrepublican]

As of now FF but wait and see

[S019]

FF

[MarkD]

To me he's just another one of the Supreme Court mediocrities. He's not going to be remembered as one of the Supreme Court greats like Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Benjamin Cardozo, or Hugo Black. A mediocrity gets some decisions right -- look at the recent unanimous decision about civil asset forfeiture. But they inevitably get some decisions wrong too.

Kavanaugh was chosen because of his ideology. So were all of the rest of the current members of the Court, and, in fact all of the Justices in the past several decades. Kavanaugh was chosen because he's conservative, as were Roberts, Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch. The other current members of the Court were chosen because they're liberal -- Ginsberg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan. They're all mediocrities. None of them are what the Supreme Court truly deserves: the most highly objective interpreters of law that can be found in the country.

[politicallefty]

To me he's just another one of the Supreme Court mediocrities. He's not going to be remembered as one of the Supreme Court greats like Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Benjamin Cardozo, or Hugo Black. A mediocrity gets some decisions right -- look at the recent unanimous decision about civil asset forfeiture. But they inevitably get some decisions wrong too.

I agree here. Obviously, Democrats would put up the biggest fight they can to prevent moving the Court in the opposite direction. However, that doesn't mean it had to be Kavanaugh.  Beyond all the accusations, he proved to the Senate and American people that he did not and does not have the temperament to serve on the Supreme Court. Trump could've easily nominated a brilliant conservative mind that would've passed the Senate with minimal issue. I mean, imagine a woman with the charm of Chief Justice Roberts and the conservatism of Justice Scalia. That's the kind of nominee that scares me.

[IceSpear]

The weirdest hill that Republicans have ever died on. A sexual assaulter, a former frat boy, and part of the generation that feels entitled to power strictly because he is a white man.

Wouldn't that be exactly the type of hill Republicans would want to die on?

Anyway, they didn't die on it at all. If anything Democrats did by screwing over a few of their red state incumbents. They probably all would've lost regardless (except Nelson), but it certainly didn't help matters.

[JGibson]

HP. This perjuring sexual assaulter has zero business on SCOTUS.

[freepcrusher]

To me he's just another one of the Supreme Court mediocrities. He's not going to be remembered as one of the Supreme Court greats like Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Benjamin Cardozo, or Hugo Black. A mediocrity gets some decisions right -- look at the recent unanimous decision about civil asset forfeiture. But they inevitably get some decisions wrong too.

so basically Charles Whitaker 2.0?