OPINION: Watching Brett Kavanaugh, and I like what I’m hearing | Christine Flowers
But I've moved on, even if the
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Alas, no, they were exactly where they'd been paid to be, these professional mourners of soon-to-be abolished reproductive rights. Knowing that Kavanaugh is a fairly sure vote to overturn Roe v. Wade if he gets on the court (I mean, yadda yadda, it's precedent, yadda yadda, wink wink, yadda yadda, sorry
And the reason he'll be confirmed is because
But the screaming banshees aren't angry at Reid and his Democratic brethren. They're livid that a Republican president has once again found a way to put a conservative white Christian male within arm's length of the highest court in the land. Say what you will about him, Trump has been incredibly effective in reshaping the bench. His first pick,
And the protesters know this. They almost make you feel sorry for them with their hand-painted signs, their defiant chants, their cute little Handmaid's Tale get-ups and their
Because even though I didn't get to hear much of
Precedent is only binding on the people who don't make it. And Kavanaugh is interviewing for a job that will put him squarely in the position of making it. The screamers know this.
There are reasons to wish that this nomination process were cleaner, fairer, not so rushed. And the spirit of
But then I see the crazy people exercising their First Amendment rights between hits of Thorazine, and all that matters is the prospect of getting one vote closer to overturning Roe.
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