Justice Kavanaugh Confirmed And Sworn In!
- Does his confirmation prove America is broken? TAKE OUR POLL!
On Saturday, the US Senate turned Judge Brett Kavanaugh into Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh.
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With a vote of 50-48 Justice Kavanaugh was confirmed to the highest court in the nation in the most narrow confirmation vote in US history. Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska broke with her party and voted NO on Kavanaugh. However, it was the “on the fence” Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Jeff Flake of Arizona (as well as Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia) who provided the necessary votes to push Kavanaugh over the top. Not long after the YES vote, he was sworn-in and assumed his official post as Justice Kavanaugh.
Despite claims of sexual assault from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and pleas from women all across America to ignore white male privilege and deny Kavanaugh a seat on the high court, the Republican-led Senate kept their conservative blinders on and followed Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell off a cliff. Not long after the confirmation, Donald Trump took a victory lap and bragged that he believed his speech mocking Dr. Ford is what pushed Kavanaugh across the finish line.
“I think that the Mississippi speech had a great impact, yes – I think it was a very important thing,” Trump boasted to reporters aboard Air Force One. He then went on to add that he is 100% convinced Dr. Ford is a bold-faced liar — a comment that almost assuredly caused sexual assault victims and women everywhere to cringe.
Trump also said he believes people are owed the presumption of innocence, prompting the obvious question: Does that include Black men and other minorities as well, or only indulged white men like Brett Kavanaugh?
So, why did the confirmation of Justice Kavanaugh send conservatives into relentless jubilation? The answer is as easy as 1st-grade arithmetic: Roe v. Wade.
Conservatives, Evangelicals, and Republicans are so hell-bent on their “one trick pony” to end legal abortion, that they couldn’t care less if Donald Trump is in The White House or if an accused sexual predator is on the Supreme Court. As long as they are aligned and in place to overturn Roe v. Wade, nothing else matters.
Watching Sen. Susan Collins take 30+ minutes on the Senate floor to explain why she was voting YES and seeing Sen. Jeff Flake cave to the party he has regularly stood up to of late provided a sea of irony. Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh flashed their white male privilege and were rewarded with power for their womanizing and sexual indiscretions. African-American Bill Cosby was vilified and blackballed for his.
Can anyone spell DOUBLE-STANDARD???
TAKE OUR POLL:
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Yes. This really wasn’t a surprise to me. Unlike Bill Cosby’s case, this was NOT a criminal case. This was a political case run amok and exploited by both sides. The so-called investigation was a total joke. In the end it came down to this- absent concrete evidence to corroborate Dr. Ford’s allegations against Kavanaugh, he was judged by Trump and Repubs to be fit. And by their standard he is fit.
Re: Roe v Wade
We’ll have to wait and see if the U.S. Supreme Court actually rolls back Women’s Rights and ends legal abortion. But if they do take that step it will be because the majority of voters (via the EC) are just fine with that.
“Elections have consequences” – Pres. Barack Obama