{"id":136914,"date":"2018-09-05T15:39:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T21:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/kavenaugh-should-not-be-confirmed-but-will-be-because-they-can.html"},"modified":"2018-09-05T20:10:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T02:10:10","slug":"kavenaugh-should-not-be-confirmed-but-will-be-because-they-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/kavenaugh-should-not-be-confirmed-but-will-be-because-they-can.html","title":{"rendered":"Kavanaugh should not be confirmed. But will be. Because they can."},"content":{"rendered":"

This article is correct in its core assertion:<\/p>\n

If an applicant for a powerful lifetime position cannot provide the needed documents to vet him, the answer is not to drop the vetting; it is to nominate another person, who can provide what reasonable process demands. Vetting is a constitutional requirement, not an obstacle to be dodged. If the people\u2019s representatives can\u2019t vet Kavanaugh, then the president should bring them a nominee they can vet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which may suck for a perfectly reasonable and wonderful and trustworthy nominee who, in the nature of their previous service, did some critical things that cannot be publicly revealed. But … well, them’s the breaks and thank you for your service and sacrifice.<\/p>\n

The article is also perfectly correct in its assertions that there is no ethical or public policy justification for rushing through this nominee’s hearing process to the extent that even the fraction of background documents that have<\/i> been deemed as acceptable for the public and Senators to know cannot possibly be reviewed in time.<\/p>\n

But here the author misses the point (or is unwilling to acknowledge it directly): this process is not<\/i> about ethics or public policy: it is solely<\/i> about getting a serious conservative onto the Supreme Court ASAP and conclusively, so as to tip the political balance of the court firmly to the Right for decades. To that end, the GOP Senators and committee members don’t care<\/i> if there’s an objectively defensible rationale — they already have their political<\/i> rationale, and have (probably) the votes to make it happen, so why risk anything that might cause a problem?<\/p>\n


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\nA Judge Who Can\u2019t Be Vetted Shouldn\u2019t Be Confirmed<\/a><\/span>
\nIf Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s extensive paper trail can\u2019t be fully and publicly disclosed, the simplest solution is to nominate someone else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This article is correct in its core assertion: If an applicant for a powerful lifetime position cannot provide the needed documents to vet him, the answer is not to drop the vetting; it is to nominate another person, who can provide what reasonable process demands. Vetting is a constitutional requirement, not an obstacle to be … Continue reading “Kavanaugh should not be confirmed. But will be. 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