Partisan battle over selection of Supreme Court Judge 2 July 2018 By Abiodun Giwa
Brett Kavanaugh, his wife and two daughters, with President Donald Trump, during the president's announcement of Brett as his pick for the Supreme Court
President Donald Trump announced Brett Kavanaugh as replacement for the vacant seat of Justice Anthony Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court on Monday. Trump had earlier ignited a political fireball for announcing his intention to appoint a replacement for Justice Kennedy.
The Democratic Party does not want anything to do with the replacement for Kennedy by Trump. The Democratic Party is not alone in the opposition against Trump's announcement for a replacement for Kennedy's seat in the court. The pro-abortion rights group too is up in arms against any idea by Trump to appoint a replacement for the vacant seat
With Trump's announcement of Judge Kavanaugh, Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the rumbling among liberals has become louder saying that Kavanaugh is a committed Conservative and could help Trump achieve an aim of overturning Roe and Wade, and make abortion a punishable offence in the U.S.
But Kavanaugh does not seem to be what Trump's opponents are saying he represents. In his own words, Kavanaugh said that as a judge, he is committed to upholding the Constitution. The stage is set for moral equivalent of war between Republicans and the Democrats as the Republicans push Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing and the Democrats work to block the confirmation.
New reports show that the liberals want the replacement for the court's vacant seat to wait until after the
mid-term election - echoing Democrats' position. Liberals believe the midterm election could be won by the Democratic Party. But the Republican Party would have none of that.
Politically, a vacant seat in the Supreme court is attractive to both parties and ideological groups. The Republicans and Conservatives want a Conservative judge, while the Democrats and the liberals want a liberal judge. Both parties and ideological groups want someone to favor their ideological agendas.
The Liberal believes that with a new Conservative bent Supreme Court judge, a Republican Party president could work toward overturning Roe and Wade - a landmark decision issued in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions (Wikipedia).
The abortion rights group quickly assembled and began a protest against allowing Trump to appoint a replacement for Kennedy's seat, before Trump's announcement of Kavanaugh's name as his choice among four other names listed for his consideration. Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, known for bipartisan approaches to issues, and who says she believes women should be allowed to manage their own bodies, was at the protest venue by an abortion rights group, to identify with the women's cause.
She believably attended the abortion rights group's protest to identify with the women's cause, because in one of her responses to a reporter's questions, she said she would not condemn Trump at that moment, over who he planned to name, when he had not named anyone.
Observers day that with Kavanaugh in the saddle as Trump's pick to be confirmed by the Congress, with Kvanaugh's credentials in news reports as a a former aide of President George Bush and a former investigator of President Bill Clinton, the direction of the battle between the Democrats and the Republicans, over his confirmation process will undoubtedly be partisan.
Though, working and serving as President Bush's aide and his investigation of President Clinton, don't represent Kavanaugh's real credentials as a judge. It seems like the way that the process has to go. The Republicans and Democrats rarely agree on selection of a judge on the Supreme Court. Kavanuagh's first credential is that he is a husband, married to a woman and has two beautiful young daughters.
The Democratic Party does not want anything to do with the replacement for Kennedy by Trump. The Democratic Party is not alone in the opposition against Trump's announcement for a replacement for Kennedy's seat in the court. The pro-abortion rights group too is up in arms against any idea by Trump to appoint a replacement for the vacant seat
With Trump's announcement of Judge Kavanaugh, Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the rumbling among liberals has become louder saying that Kavanaugh is a committed Conservative and could help Trump achieve an aim of overturning Roe and Wade, and make abortion a punishable offence in the U.S.
But Kavanaugh does not seem to be what Trump's opponents are saying he represents. In his own words, Kavanaugh said that as a judge, he is committed to upholding the Constitution. The stage is set for moral equivalent of war between Republicans and the Democrats as the Republicans push Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing and the Democrats work to block the confirmation.
New reports show that the liberals want the replacement for the court's vacant seat to wait until after the
mid-term election - echoing Democrats' position. Liberals believe the midterm election could be won by the Democratic Party. But the Republican Party would have none of that.
Politically, a vacant seat in the Supreme court is attractive to both parties and ideological groups. The Republicans and Conservatives want a Conservative judge, while the Democrats and the liberals want a liberal judge. Both parties and ideological groups want someone to favor their ideological agendas.
The Liberal believes that with a new Conservative bent Supreme Court judge, a Republican Party president could work toward overturning Roe and Wade - a landmark decision issued in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions (Wikipedia).
The abortion rights group quickly assembled and began a protest against allowing Trump to appoint a replacement for Kennedy's seat, before Trump's announcement of Kavanaugh's name as his choice among four other names listed for his consideration. Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, known for bipartisan approaches to issues, and who says she believes women should be allowed to manage their own bodies, was at the protest venue by an abortion rights group, to identify with the women's cause.
She believably attended the abortion rights group's protest to identify with the women's cause, because in one of her responses to a reporter's questions, she said she would not condemn Trump at that moment, over who he planned to name, when he had not named anyone.
Observers day that with Kavanaugh in the saddle as Trump's pick to be confirmed by the Congress, with Kvanaugh's credentials in news reports as a a former aide of President George Bush and a former investigator of President Bill Clinton, the direction of the battle between the Democrats and the Republicans, over his confirmation process will undoubtedly be partisan.
Though, working and serving as President Bush's aide and his investigation of President Clinton, don't represent Kavanaugh's real credentials as a judge. It seems like the way that the process has to go. The Republicans and Democrats rarely agree on selection of a judge on the Supreme Court. Kavanuagh's first credential is that he is a husband, married to a woman and has two beautiful young daughters.
Comment Form is loading comments...
