Re: Kavanaugh

[gopiscrap]

In light of all this, I think that every case Kavanaugh has ever adjudicated from any bench, regarding sexual assault or sexual harrassment (civil or criminal) should be vacated and retried

[vlyons]

1. Good point!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal rarely, if ever, see those cases.

Those are almost without exception state crimes or state law civil matters. I doubt he's ever had to consider one.

[gopiscrap]

3. but even on lower courts everything from when and if he was a municipal judge

or higher

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. The only judicial position he has ever held was on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

He was nominated for that position by Bush II in 2003; he had previously worked at the WH. He has never been a lower court judge of any kind.

[gopiscrap]

5. jesus christ that is insane for that important of a position

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Happens all the time - well-connected lawyers get top jobs as judges.

A judge I used to work for told me that a judge is just a lawyer who knows the governor.

[onenote]

7. Yep. Of the 8 DC Circuit Judges appointed by Democrats

Six never served as a judge at any level prior to being nominated to the Circuit Court of Appeals.

And of the ten Judges nominated by republican presidents (including six senior judges), all but one are "first time" members of the judiciary.