Richardcyoung.com

  • Home
  • Debbie Young
  • Jimmy Buffett
  • Key West
  • Your Survival Guy
  • How We Are Different
  • Paris
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • The Swiss Way
  • My Rifles
  • Dividends and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • Dick Young
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Your Survival Guy’s Super States
  • NNT & Cholesterol
  • Your Health
  • Ron Paul
  • US Treasury Yield Curve: My Favorite Investor Tool
  • Anti-Gun Control
  • Anti-Digital Currency
  • Joel Salatin & Alfie Oakes
  • World Gold Mine Production
  • Fidelity & Wellington Since 1971
  • Hillsdale College
  • Babson College
  • Contact Us

Why the Kavanaugh Case Would Be Thrown Out of Court

September 27, 2018 By Debbie Young

Swearing-in Ceremony for Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Oval. Rose Garden.

Today’s Senate proceedings are not about guilt or innocence, Andrew C. McCarthy explains reminds readers in NRO. They are about qualification.

The proceedings are about Kavanaugh’s suitability to sit as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Period. The objective is to give the Senate — first the Judiciary Committee and then the full chamber — enough information to make a discriminating appraisal of Kavanaugh’s legal erudition and character. On that score, the Senate has more information about this nominee — including, most significantly, the 300 appellate opinions he has authored on the eminent D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals — than any nominee in the history of the United States.

The Senate is not being asked to solve alleged crimes. Its job is not to psychoanalyze witnesses. Lawmakers, instead, are exercising their constitutional duty to provide advice to the president on a nomination and, if appropriate, to consent to a nominee’s accession to office.

That’s it.

More to the point, no court would entertain these allegations. The reason the Constitution requires a speedy trial in criminal cases, and the reason the law imposes statutes of limitations (in federal law, it is usually five years), is that unreasonable delay unfairly prejudices an accused’s right to present a defense. After five years, to say nothing of 36 years, physical evidence is no longer available, witnesses are often unavailable, and even if witnesses can be produced, their memories have faded and become unreliable. There is no way to conduct a proceeding that satisfies fundamental fairness.

The absurd irony is Democrats want to ignore that the proceeding here is merely an exploration of Kavanaugh’s fitness to be a judge (which has been established beyond cavil); but while they want to turn the proceeding into a criminal trial, the case would be thrown out if we were operating under trial standards. The allegations are hopelessly stale, and the Judiciary Committee would be disqualified as fact-finder because its members have already made up their minds about the outcome.

Read more from Andrew McCarthy here.

If you’re willing to fight for Main Street America, click here to sign up for the Richardcyoung.com free weekly email.

Related Posts

  • What Brett Kavanaugh means for the Supreme Court
  • Judge Brett Kavanaugh for The Supreme Court
  • Why the Supreme Court Matters
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Debbie Young
Debbie Young
Debbie, our chief political writer of Richardcyoung.com, is also our chief domestic affairs writer, a contributing writer on Eastern Europe and Paris and Burgundy, France. She has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over five decades. Debbie lives in Key West, Florida, and Newport, Rhode Island, and travels extensively in Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga. Debbie has completed the 200-hour Krama Yoga teacher training program taught by Master Instructor Ruslan Kleytman. Debbie is a strong supporting member of the NRA.
Debbie Young
Latest posts by Debbie Young (see all)
  • Sending Capitalists to the Gulag - July 3, 2025
  • Saudi Arabia’s Transformation - July 2, 2025
  • Just Don’t Call It “Obliterated” - July 1, 2025

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • Marry Compound Interest, Divorce Market Timing
  • The Butterfly Effect and Chaotic Markets
  • Ron Paul: “Freedom and Central Banking Are Not Compatible”
  • Set Sail with Stocks
  • To Me There Isn’t a Better Way to Live
  • Your Cash Swept into Your Broker’s Bank Account!
  • Can Curcumin Help in Fighting Cancer?
  • The Government Attack on Americans’ Independence
  • Will Government Spending Spur Hyperinflation?
  • The Claremont Institute: Protecting the American Way of Life

Our Most Popular Posts

  • Just Don’t Call It “Obliterated”
  • What Is Tim Walz's Connection to China?
  • A True America First Foreign Policy
  • "Surrounded by an Armed Country"
  • NYC's Mamdani: The More You Know, the Worse It Gets
  • China’s Silent Strike: Weapon Targets Electrical Infrastructure
  • Naturalized Criminals Set to Lose American Citizenship
  • The Ugliness of Political Warfare
  • Survive and Thrive June 2025: The Lay of the Land: Who Can You Trust?
  • Every Family Should Own at Least One Shotgun: Here Are Three

Compensation was paid to utilize rankings. Click here to read full disclosure.

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • Happy Independence Day!
  • Survival Guy: An All-Weather Balanced Portfolio
  • A Bazooka Fired at Private Equity
  • US Trade Deficit Widens in May
  • Job Gains Light Up the Labor Market
  • U.S. Eases Chip Software Restrictions, Boosting Tech Trade with China
  • NYC, Crypto, ESG, the Haves and the Have-Yachts
  • Trump Announces Vietnam Trade Deal
  • Nuclear Surpasses Coal in U.S. Energy Mix for the First Time
  • Grand Theft Cargo: California’s Cargo Thefts Thrive

RSS Yoursurvivalguy.com

  • Happy Independence Day!
  • Survival Guy: An All-Weather Balanced Portfolio
  • A Bazooka Fired at Private Equity
  • NYC, Crypto, ESG, the Haves and the Have-Yachts
  • “Behind Every Blade of Grass”
  • Beware the ‘Democratization’ of Investing
  • Survive and Thrive June 2025: The Lay of the Land: Who Can You Trust?
  • Dividends: “Because It Works”
  • “Surrounded by an Armed Country”
  • Every Family Should Own at Least One Shotgun: Here Are Three

US Treasury Yield Curve: My Favorite Investor Tool

My Key West Garden Office

Your Retirement Life: Traveling the Efficient Frontier

Live a Long Life

Your Survival Guy’s Mt. Rushmore of Investing Legends

“Then One Day the Grandfather was Gone”

Copyright © 2025 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives