(September 19, 2018 at 9:30 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: Actually, Kennedy was one of the big swing votes for the Supreme Court (he authored the majority opinions on several major cases related to gay rights, including Obergefell v. Hodges) and he’s being replaced with THE most conservative judge in DC today. So, no, Omega Boy, this isn’t simply maintaining the status quo. If Kavanaugh was prone to going either way, ideologically, that would be maintaining the status quo. Christ, if he was replacing Clarence Thomas, that would be maintaining the status quo, but that’s not what’s happening: Trump is replacing a moderate with someone who thinks the President should be above the law. And given that Trump places fealty and ideological purity over everything else, this makes Kavanaugh dangerous.
His history of assaulting women's reproductive rights is bad enough, but just as dangerous is daring to suggest that we scrap real time, in the moment oversight of a president. Saying we can charge them after they leave, would not change the damage they could do before they leave. He'd be in the position of setting up a dictator.
