Andrew C. McCarthy has been on a tear this week about Senator Chuck Grassley’s decisions regarding Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination — here are the openings from a few of his latest:
Grassley’s Kangaroo Court
September 21, 2018
He must not let Democrats delay the Judiciary Committee’s hearing or turn it into even more of a farce.
So now it looks like next Thursday.
On Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s manifestly meritorious nomination to the Supreme Court, what was supposed to be the vote out of the Senate Judiciary Committee this past Thursday now appears to be sliding into a hearing to be held next Thursday. Or, who knows, maybe a Thursday or two after that. Or maybe The First of Never — though even that would undoubtedly be postponed to The Twelfth of Never.
It’s a kangaroo court.
Read more: Grassley’s Kangaroo Court
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No Hearing; Just Vote on Kavanaugh Nomination
September 21, 2018
This is about preventing a conservative justice from being added to the Supreme Court, nothing more.
Senate Democrats’ blatant abuse of the hearing process, their “delay, delay, delay” strategy, continues to pay dividends. Putting a stop to it would be long overdue.
Read more: National Review
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It’s a Set-up
September 19, 2018
If Ford won’t agree to testify, hold the vote tomorrow as planned.
In my column yesterday, I contended that the unverifiable sexual-assault allegation against Judge Brett Kavanaugh bore “all the hallmarks of a set-up.” I based that assessment on the patently flimsy evidence, coupled with Senate Democrats’ duplicitous abuse of the confirmation-hearing process.
Read more: National Review
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Democrats, Kavanaugh, and ‘The End of Civilization’
September 18, 2018
If they get away with this, the only decent people in politics will be decent progressives.
Judge Robert Bork used to tell a prescient and darkly humorous story about watching Clarence Thomas’s Senate confirmation hearings — etched in pre-hashtag history as the “Thomas–Hill hearings,” in homage to Anita Hill’s role as the Left’s heroic accuser.
At the time, Thomas was a judge of the same eminent D.C. Circuit federal appeals court on which Bork had served. As he viewed Thomas’s “high-tech lynching” in horror, Bork recalled, a friend of his, the iconic Irving Kristol, approached and asked him what was happening.
“Of course it is,” Kristol deadpanned. “But it’ll take a long time. Meanwhile, it’s still possible to live well.”
It was a poignant story coming from Bork. A scholar of great breadth, the late judge was a man from another time: a patriot who’d enlisted in the Marines at 17 during World War II and been called back to duty when the Korean War broke out, even as he embarked on a legendary life in the law. In 1987, four years before the Thomas–Hill hearings, the slide from civilization he so lamented — the slouch toward Gomorrah — had started when he himself was mugged by Senate Democrats. This libelous character assassination, derailing Bork’s nomination by President Reagan to the Supreme Court, had been led by Ted Kennedy.
Read more: National Review
