If Brett ("I like beer") Kavanaugh is made a US Supreme Court Justice, Trump will no doubt take immediate possession of Kavanaugh as 'my Justice,' a la 'my generals...my African-American...' and whomever else can satisfy this egomaniac's penchant for self-generated validation.
But the truth is we'll all be living with the Mitch McConnell court - - not the Trump court or the John Roberts court, or anyone else's court.
Because it was McConnell as GOP Senate Majority leader
who, after failing to make Obama a one-term President, effectively compensated for having let down all those GOP donors by denying Obama Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland the courtesy of a hearing, let alone an up or down vote.
That unprecedented obstructionism paved the way for Trump nominee Neil Gorsuch's confirmation a year late.
Bringing us to the cusp of yet another odiously partisan push engineered by the now six-term Senator McConnell to make Kavanaugh the fifth ultra-conservative in a solid 5-4 right-wing, corporatist high court majority.
Kavanaugh's ascension to the Supreme Court from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit would be a final stick in Garland's eye, as he is the Chief Judge of that court and outranks the more junior and juvenile Judge Kavanaugh.
There is a chance that GOP Senators alleged to be moderates like Jeff Flake, or Lisa Murkowski or Susan Collins could miraculously grow spines and stop McConnell from adding the ruination of the Supreme Court to his trashing of the Senate on display today as McConnell lieutenants, like Lindsey Graham and Orrin Hatch and Chuck Grassley managed to make the Judiciary Committee look even worse than its iteration which slimed Anita Hill twenty-seven years ago..
The odds are against any 11th hour Resurrection of the Reasonable Republican and I feel like we continue to watch the same horror movie on a loop ever since Republicans embraced Trump a day or two after the "Hollywood Access" tape and barely flinched as he repeatedly sided with Vladimir Putin over Uncle Sam.
But the truth is we'll all be living with the Mitch McConnell court - - not the Trump court or the John Roberts court, or anyone else's court.
Because it was McConnell as GOP Senate Majority leader
who, after failing to make Obama a one-term President, effectively compensated for having let down all those GOP donors by denying Obama Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland the courtesy of a hearing, let alone an up or down vote.
That unprecedented obstructionism paved the way for Trump nominee Neil Gorsuch's confirmation a year late.
Bringing us to the cusp of yet another odiously partisan push engineered by the now six-term Senator McConnell to make Kavanaugh the fifth ultra-conservative in a solid 5-4 right-wing, corporatist high court majority.
Kavanaugh's ascension to the Supreme Court from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit would be a final stick in Garland's eye, as he is the Chief Judge of that court and outranks the more junior and juvenile Judge Kavanaugh.
There is a chance that GOP Senators alleged to be moderates like Jeff Flake, or Lisa Murkowski or Susan Collins could miraculously grow spines and stop McConnell from adding the ruination of the Supreme Court to his trashing of the Senate on display today as McConnell lieutenants, like Lindsey Graham and Orrin Hatch and Chuck Grassley managed to make the Judiciary Committee look even worse than its iteration which slimed Anita Hill twenty-seven years ago..
The odds are against any 11th hour Resurrection of the Reasonable Republican and I feel like we continue to watch the same horror movie on a loop ever since Republicans embraced Trump a day or two after the "Hollywood Access" tape and barely flinched as he repeatedly sided with Vladimir Putin over Uncle Sam.