Let the butt kissing and brown nosing commence... You'd think a SCOTUS nomination would have a little bit more dignity. Not in the Trump era...everyone kisses the ring and the butt. The fact this is now de facto protocol is disturbing.
Brett Kavanaugh's first claim as a Supreme Court nominee was bizarre
On one hand, if that's the qualifier to get the job...what's the big deal? OTOH, for a SCOTUS justice (or nominee) to partake in this is disturbing, highest court in the land, judicial independence, yada, yada. Personally I think it shows a lack of character and boundaries. Professionally what it means is up in the air, like would he take Trump's phone call on a case?
Brett Kavanaugh's first claim as a Supreme Court nominee was bizarre
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Brett Kavanaugh thanked President Trump for his nomination to the Supreme Court on Monday night. And almost immediately, he made a thoroughly strange and quite possibly bogus claim.
"No president has ever consulted more widely, or talked with more people from more backgrounds, to seek input about a Supreme Court nomination," Kavanaugh said.
It may seem like a throwaway line a bit of harmless political hyperbole. But this was also the first public claim from a potential new Supreme Court justice who will be tasked with interpreting and parsing the law down to the letter. Specificity and precision is the name of the game in Kavanaugh's chosen profession. How on earth could he be so sure?
Here's a question: do you think Trump dictated/forced Kavanaugh's statement like Bornstein?Quote:
The claim does fit a pattern with Trump, though, in which those around him feel pressure whether overt or not to flatter him in the most glowing and hyperbolic terms possible. The most ridiculous example was the letter that Trump's then-personal doctor, Harold Bornstein, wrote during the 2016 campaign, which contended, "If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency." Bornstein now says that the note was essentially dictated by Trump or even coerced.
On one hand, if that's the qualifier to get the job...what's the big deal? OTOH, for a SCOTUS justice (or nominee) to partake in this is disturbing, highest court in the land, judicial independence, yada, yada. Personally I think it shows a lack of character and boundaries. Professionally what it means is up in the air, like would he take Trump's phone call on a case?
