Kavanaugh Wants The Privilege Of Being On The Supreme Court, He Isn't At Risk Of Losing His Liberty Or Being Convicted Of A Crime, There Is No Reason To Judge The Attempted Rape Accusation Against Him According To The Standards Supposedly Required To Convict.
I wish I knew more about the law, about the history of the application of the law and specifically what the record of Brett Kavanaugh in practicing and applying the law in regard to the presumption of innocence is because it is one of my strongest, one of my most absolute positions in life that those with the power to apply the law to powerless people to deprive them of their liberties, their property, their future, to put them in prison or deprive them of justice MUST BE JUDGED BY THE STANDARDS THEY HAVE ADVOCATED AND PRACTICED FROM POSITIONS OF POWER.
Nixon ran for office as a champion of law and order, as did Reagan, they ran what have been, to date, the most criminal of modern presidencies. Trumps will almost certainly surpass both of them in criminality. Nixon was granted a pardon before he was even indicted for a crime, he was given a privilege that he and the Republicans and the courts would never have given some poor 17-year old girl accused of a minor violation of laws against shoplifting.
The Republicans who will vote to put Brett Kavanaugh on the court certainly include those who would nail a 17-year-old girl who was accused of shoplifting of negligible value, I have every confidence that Judge Kavanaugh is closer to their standard of justice for 17-year-old girls accused of a minor crime. I wouldn't be surprised if those who were prosecutors or judges among them hadn't screwed poor 17-year-olds in ways they never would a privileged 17+36-year-old boy. They would certainly never let the 17-year-old girl get away with purjury or even implausible, convenient lapses of memory.
When the hearings resume on Monday they will demand that the accusation against Brett Kavanaugh, accused of an attempted rape for which he cannot be prosecuted because the statute of limitations has passed, must be granted the highest standard of the presumption of innocence which Republican conservatives never, ever give to powerless people accused of petty crimes.
The claim that they must judge the accusations against Brett Kavanaugh according to the strictest of standards to obtain a fair and valid criminal conviction is a lie. Brett Kavanaugh isn't at risk of losing his liberty, his property, his future, his freedom in this matter, he's in danger of losing the privilege of being a member of the Supreme Court. There is no reason to judge him on the standards that must be applied when it is a question of convicting someone of a crime. It would be irresponsible to pretend to do that. It's certain that the Republicans will be looking to nail his accuser to the wall just like they did Anita Hill. They've already given Kavanaugh royal treatment in ignoring his obvious perjury.
Had Kavanaugh simply said "I don't remember" and "I'm sorry for any pain I may have inadvertendly caused," this would all be over. And it would have shown a better judicial temperament than he's shown, so no surprise he didn't do that.
ReplyDeleteNow he's stuck with a categorical denial, and the issue isn't, did he do it, but: is he covering it up? We don't remember Monica describing oral sex with Clinton, we remember Clinton's "I did not have sex with that woman" (I have a T-shirt that shows a cartoon Clinton saying "I did not have Tex-Mex with that woman." It's a favorite.). Nixon went down for the lies about Watergate, not for the break-in (it was more complicated than that, but that's what we all remember).
Kavanaugh is not fit for the bench for the same reasons Gorsuch wasn't: no judicial temperament, no recognition that he's ruling about issues concerning people, not just ideas like "corporations" and "law" and "white people." Okay, I threw that last one in, but fairly, I'd argue.
Will we make it about what he's doing now (telling lies)? Or about what she says he did then?
Hey schmucko -- sent one of these to the late great Leonard Bernstein's daughter and got a very nice thank you note today. She said that she would wear it with -- dig it -- pryde. Heh.
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But of course Lenny is another artist you inexplicably feel superior to.
Oh, Stupy, just fuck off and die.
DeleteGet back to me when you've ever done anything remotely interesting to anybody else.
DeleteA. You're the one who keeps coming here so apparently I do something interesting to you. Are you admitting that you're a nobody? If you didn't come here, troll me elsewhere or lie about what I said I'd spend somewhat less time paying attention to you than I do the theoretical structure of speculative Indo-Euopean grammar.
DeleteB. You can only say "get back to me" when someone has tried to get in touch with you. I know it's your fondest wish to be able to think I would try to get back to you but I'm really not that into you.
C. Fuck off and die.
"You can only say "get back to me" when someone has tried to get in touch with you." Right. One of your trademark stupendously stupid statements, roughly akin to your saying that Queens -- an autonomous geographical area -- can't be more ethnically diverse than New York City as a whole because, you know, you're an idiot.
ReplyDeleteRemind again what you've ever accomplished that anybody other than you gives a shit about?
I just love it when you say something incredibly stupid and obviously wrong that I proved was incredibly stupid because it's so obviously wrong within the same week I did that for the second time. What part of the constitution of the NYC City Council didn't you understand, Stups.
DeleteI'll demonstrate the first sentence to you. You never, ever come back here, as yourself or as your sock puppets and I'll never, ever "get back to you". Only that's probably too complex for someone as stupid as you.
Go ahead, Stupy, go to Ducan's "Brain Trust" and say that Queens isn't part of New York City and let's see how many of them will a. pay attention to you, b. care enough to correct you or, c. be as stupid as you are so as to agree with your claim. Go ask Duncan to decide the issue and see what he says, that is if you can tempt him away from the mirror long enough.
P.S. Fuck off and die.
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