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Krugman: Kavanaugh Will Kill the Constitution
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/opinion/kavanaugh-supreme-court-partisan.htmlKavanaugh Will Kill the Constitution
The legitimacy of the Supreme Court is on the line.
By Paul Krugman
Sept. 6, 2018
At a fundamental level, the attempt to jam Brett Kavanaugh onto the Supreme Court closely resembles the way Republicans passed a tax cut last year. Once again we see a rushed, nakedly partisan process, with G.O.P. leaders withholding much of the information thats supposed to go into congressional deliberations. Once again the outcome is all too likely to rest on pure tribalism: Unless some Republicans develop a very late case of conscience, they will vote along party lines with the full knowledge that theyre abdicating their constitutional duty to provide advice and consent.
True, Kavanaugh is at least getting a hearing, which the tax bill never did. But hes bobbing and weaving his way through, refusing to answer even straightforward questions, displaying an evasiveness utterly at odds with the probity we used to expect of Supreme Court justices.
No, the real difference from the tax bill story is that last year we were talking only about a couple of trillion dollars. This year were talking about the future of the Republic. For a Kavanaugh confirmation will set us up for multiple constitutional crises.
After all, if Kavanaugh is confirmed, we will be trying to navigate a turbulent era in American politics with a Supreme Court in which two seats were effectively stolen. First Republicans refused even to give President Barack Obamas nominee so much as a hearing; then they will have filled two positions with nominees chosen by a president who lost the popular vote and eked out an Electoral College win only with aid from a hostile foreign power.
Would a Justice Kavanaugh conduct himself with the caution appropriate to such a fraught situation? Well, miracles of personal redemption do happen. But its very unlikely. On the contrary, every indication is that if he makes it, he and his fellow justices will abuse their power at every level.
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Krugman: Kavanaugh Will Kill the Constitution (Original Post)
dalton99a
Sep 2018
OP
Krugman forgot the part about Trump being an unindicted co-conspirator in his reasoning. nt
Grasswire2
Sep 2018
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raging moderate
(4,297 posts)1. No, three seats will have been stolen.
Mitch McConnell gleefully violated the US Constitution to uphold his "higher" loyalty to the white supremacy fantasy. Then the Russians installed Trump in the US Presidency, probably for the same reason, yielding two more Supreme Court stolen seats..
Stargleamer
(1,989 posts)2. More than three. . .
Had all the overvotes and undervotes been properly examined in 2000, Al Gore would have rightly been elected president, and we wouldn't have had Alito and Roberts on the SC.
Also, Clarence Thomas got on the SC because people like Dixon (IL) and Boren (OK) betrayed us, betrayed Anita Hill.
Grasswire2
(13,568 posts)3. Krugman forgot the part about Trump being an unindicted co-conspirator in his reasoning. nt