what happens if Kavanagh gets into supreme court?

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OMG. Poor eye contact, slow speech, seems uncomfortable.

Almost seems like she has an ASD.

Seems like a double standard at play.

I doubt any other nominees ever had their high school yearbook brought up during conformation hearings. Stuff he wrote when he was a teenager. And I know from recent personal experience that high school boys say a lot of BS to sound cool. The amount of sex they think about and want others to think they're having doesn't hold up to their actual activity.

mitt the plastic Mormon was [as a teen] found to have attacked a fellow [prep school] classmate with scissors in a gang attack, and yet that did not derail his presidential campaign. too many people are willing to cut the entitled full of themselves white twits way too much slack.

The Trump agenda is fundamentally to transform the USA into the DSA - the Divided States of America. Kavanaugh is basically a sideshow, useful to Trump so that he can reinforce, encourage and exploit patriarchal resentment.

There has been a huge catalogue of sideshows ever since Trump hired and paid actors to cheer him riding down the elevator - that alone should have signalled to the populace in general the fraudulence of Trump and his contempt for transparent and honest behaviour.

If Trump succeeds in consolidating his power via puppets like Kavanaugh, the division will grow. This is exactly what Trump wants.

There is now an urgency as never before in the USA for ordinary Americans of both liberal and conservative persuasions to very soberly reflect that democracy relies upon the protection of transparency, legality, impartiality and if these norms and the institutions which represent them are slowly undermined, controlled and increasingly rolled back and demolished by Trump and his cronies, then the outlook may be very bleak indeed.

Kavanaugh is a partisan appointment. Of course he is; the Trump agenda particularly depends on these men that he can control and possibly blackmail if necessary to make them do his bidding as if he was ruler, not POTUS.

The signs and intentions of Trump were there from the beginning; reacting as if this latest episode was something new and different is to be distracted into overlooking the big picture here. Other Western nations place judicial appointments beyond political control, precisely to stop heads of state meddling for their own personal benefit. Western democracies appoint Ombudsman to regulate and protect democratic behaviour. The DSA has relied instead largely on its Constitution alone, and now faces possibilities the founding fathers never foresaw.

The next few years will test the strength of democracy in the USA/DSA as never before and the outcome may well be contingent upon the integrity or lack of it in appointments such as Kavanaughs. Given the murky history revealed about him, it sounds an ominous alarm bell for the future safety of democracy in the DSA, though the MAGAs will wear their red hats until the whole fraud is visible even to them. Then they will complain the loudest, though it may be too late. They will blame Trump for the fraud he is. If it comes to that sad day, Don the Con can rightly respond that they chose to elect him knowing he was a cheat, a fraud, a liar, a huckster.

It's a mess created by Trump and his GOP enablers, and Kavanaugh is just one more incremental step to an even bigger and more dangerous mess, in the Divided States of America.

Last year there were plenty of warnings voiced, like this one:https://theconversation.com/democracy-on-life-support-donald-trumps-first-anniversary-86824

I truly think its time for all caring concerned adults in the USA to stop being continuously distracted by the DSA sideshows, the intertribal conflict whipped up by Trump every single day, and focus instead on the increasing pattern of the undermining of the USA's institutions before they are shipwrecked and replaced by an autocratic oligarchy ruled by the huckster in chief himself..

On the subject of judicial temperament, anyone recall Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s rhetorical assault on Donald Trump in July 2016. “I can’t imagine what the country would be—with Donald Trump as our President,” adding that the possibility brought to mind her late husband’s advice: “Now it’s time for us to move to New Zealand.”

How does that rate on partiality?

It is highly likely Trump will have at least a third SCOTUS pick for RBG’s replacement. No doubt part of the dem’s scorched earth tactic with Kavanaugh is to make future conservative SCOTUS nominations so horrific to consider that no one will accept.