Originally posted on October 5, 2018. Lynn Wardle, writing in CNS News says it’s time for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to retire. Her frequent partisan statements have made her unfit for the Supreme Court. Justices are supposed to maintain a nonpartisan demeanor, even if they maintain partisan biases in private. He writes (abridged): Ruth Bader […]
Will Ruth Bader Ginsburg Make it to the State of the Union?
Originally posted January 31, 2019. UPDATE: Ruth Bader Ginsburg has pancreatic cancer. Stan Greene of the Santa Monica Observer writes: While the Nation is preoccupied with the appointment of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, it appears there will soon be another vacancy on the US Supreme Court U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth […]
America Needs a Conservative to Replace Justice Ginsburg
In Politico, Eliana Johnson and Gabby Orr report that the Trump White House is reaching out to allies to ask them to prepare for a tough confirmation fight if Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court should open up. If Ginsburg were to step away from the court, President Trump must absolutely nominate and demand […]
The Truth About Kavanaugh Begins to Seep Out
Now that time has given investigators a chance to examine the claims of some of Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers, their stories are falling apart. In the National Review, Mairead Mcardle explains how one accuser has now admitted she completely fabricated her allegations against Justice Kavanaugh. She writes: A woman who made graphic allegations against Supreme […]
Democrats March into November with No Strategy and no Tailwind
Peter van Buren suggests at The American Conservative that Democrats picked the wrong hill to die on in the Kavanaugh fight, the Russia fight, and the fight over Donald Trump’s behavior. He writes: The point of politics is to change people’s minds, not declare your rivals unfit to walk among decent folk. Kavanaugh proved that the […]
It’s Time to Confirm Brett Kavanaugh
Just as then-Senator Joe Biden predicted back in 1991, during the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas fiasco, the FBI found nothing. In Biden’s words the “FBI explicitly does not, in this or any other case, reach a conclusion, period. Period. The reason why we cannot rely on the FBI report—you would not like it if we did—because […]
How to Tell the Kavanaugh War Is Over
There were many clues, writes Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian. The really easy clue was from the New York Times, but there were others. The Emergence of Two More Accursers: Deborah Ramirez and Julie Swetnick. Could these two transparent frauds have been better selected if the only purpose was to undermine the potential credibility […]
The Kavanaugh Vote: #1 Salesmen for the GOP Midterm Rally
“So much for that Blue Wave coming in November,” a friend pointed out to me this week. That could simply be our wishful thinking. But, just as President Obama was America’s #1 gun salesman, it turns out Democrats on the Judiciary Committee and Christine Blasey Ford are the #1 salesmen for a Conservative America. Let’s […]
12 Big Problems in Christine Blasey Ford’s Story
“I do not think that a reasonable prosecutor would bring this case based on the evidence before the Committee. A ‘he said, she said’ case is incredibly difficult to prove. But this case is even weaker than that,” submits Rachel Mitchell in a five-page-long memo obtained by The Washington Post. Below are 12 massive inconsistencies listed […]
Tapper: There’s no contemporaneous, corroborating evidence for any charges against Kavanaugh