Previous threads Thread 1 Thread 2 Thread 3 Thread 4 Thread 5 Thread 6 Thread 7 Thread 8 Thread 9 Thread 10 Thread 11 Thread 12 Thread 13 Thread 14 Rundown >These hearings are essentionally a job interview for the supreme court justice nominee selected by the president. They serve to field any questions senators may have before casting their vote to approve or deny his nomination. This is signifant because Democrats have been using the courts to legislative, this both blocks them and gives Republicans a chance to reverse previous decisions
History of confirmation hearing >The controversy surrounding Brandeis's nomination was so great that the Senate Judiciary Committee, for the first time in its history, held a public hearing on the nomination, allowing witnesses to appear before the committee and offer testimony both in support of and in opposition to Brandeis's confirmation. While previous nominees to the Supreme Court had been confirmed or rejected by a simple up-or-down vote on the Senate floor—often on the same day on which the President had sent the nomination to the Senate—a then-unprecedented four months lapsed between Wilson's nomination of Brandeis and the Senate's final confirmation vote en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Brandeis#Nominated_to_the_Supreme_Court
>Kavanaugh is an orignalist >The original intent theory, which holds that interpretation of a written constitution is (or should be) consistent with what was meant by those who drafted and ratified it. >The original meaning theory, which is closely related to textualism, is the view that interpretation of a written constitution or law should be based on what reasonable persons living at the time of its adoption would have understood the ordinary meaning of the text to be. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Originalism
Absolutely true, the amount of self enriching corruption among reps is rampant >Gives government contracts to friends/family businesses Quite a few California Dems have done this to get quite rich
Hunter Richardson
ummm does anyone have a screenshot of that last protestor getting ejected? there was a guy in a hat and brown shirt with something someting "toddlers" on his shirt
Cute fanfic. Now go back and watch Kavanaugh be confirmed.
Charles Davis
the democrats bringing up privacy of all people
Dominic Garcia
>I wonder if her beads are intentionally supposed to look like it I think so, esp. since it was first thing I thought of when I saw it... so those familiar with would think that first IMHO.
Reminding every citizen of President's Surveillance Program (ironically proven justified by Huma and Co.) and, much worse, Secret Executive Service. >Implying they'll ever remotely address actual violation of civil liberties Remember Zuckerberg's hearing? It's a good question to raise awareness of but I'm not QUITE sure this elderly Senator understands the implications of an exabyte.
