Rundown >These hearings are essentially 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 significant 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
Some testimony so far >Muh illegal alien abortions >Mentally retarded needs gibs >negro a good boy, whity keeping him down, Kavanaugh be raycist >Woman "Christian" minister wants contraceptive, cites opposition to wide intepretation >Mudblood autist scholar speaks highly of Kavanaugh>GIB GUNS WHYT BOI BIX NOOD WE WUZ QUEENS N KANGZ>A few roastie law skanks nagged everyone to death
no joke, to the black robot who read their shooter fanfiction, the kid made out of glass, and the kid who breathes through a straw. But he directed it at the black girl speficially O_o
David Phillips
Children will live, but choke on the fumes from downwind states. WOmen will be sent back to the kitchen.
Try breathing through a pinched straw.
Chase Gutierrez
Imagine an independent council existed to harass President Johnson
>Coons was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, the son of Sarah Louise "Sally" (née Ives) and Kenelm Winslow "Ken" Coons. His ancestry includes English and Irish.[4] Coons grew up in Hockessin, Delaware, where he attended the public Yorklyn Elementary School and later H.B. DuPont Middle School. He graduated from Tower Hill School and then Amherst College in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry and political science. While in college, he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Sigma chapter). In 1983, Chris Coons was awarded the Truman Scholarship. During his junior year of college, Coons studied abroad at the University of Nairobi in Kenya through St. Lawrence University's Kenya Semester Program.[5] He earned a master's degree in Ethics from Yale Divinity School and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School.[6]
